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Groningen, Netherlands

This year, our team (bye-o-film) focuses on addressing the problem of biofilm formation on medical devices. Biofilms, which are collections of bacteria held together by a matrix of extracellular substances, are difficult to treat with traditional methods like antibiotics. They are highly resistant to antimicrobial agents and can develop further resistance.

The highly contagious avian influenza, more commonly known as the ‘Bird flu’, is raging through the world. Unprecedented outbreaks are infecting birds everywhere and most notably, chickens in the poultry industry. Immunologists are sounding the alarm bells that this influenza variant might also jump to humans if left unchecked. In The Netherlands, where.

Groningen, Netherlands

The Netherlands is producing excess nitrogen, which is harmful to nature and biodiversity. One of the main culprits for this so-called nitrogen crisis is animal agriculture, a vital income source for the Dutch economy. Our project targets ammonia emissions contributing to the crisis and aims to convert them into a beneficial feed additive. Thus, we have.

Groningen, Netherlands

Crops all over the world are in danger due to the influence of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs). PPNs feed on the roots of crop-plants and thereby consume the energy that the plant needs to develop normally. Especially, potato plants are terrorized by the potato cyst nematodes Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis. According to current estimations.

Groningen, Netherlands

Communication of sensitive data is becoming less safe. Common methods such as email often do not provide sufficient protection to prevent interception. By combining our expertise from engineering, computer science, and synthetic biology, we created “QRoningen”, a protocol based on a physical QR code with the purpose of secure information sharing. Our.

Groningen, Netherlands

The production of many chemicals is currently based on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are however a finite resource which the world is using rapidly. Models indicate that oil resources will be depleted in the next couple of decades. Hence, there is an ever increasing attention for replacement with bio-renewable resources and sustainable production processes..

Groningen, Netherlands

The Netherlands produces a significant portion of the global dairy foods. This industry revolves around the fermentation of milk, which is accomplished by lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactococcus lactis. Lactic acid bacteria are susceptible to bacteriophage infections. Once a phage infects a lactic acid bacterium, it will use the bacterium as a host to.

Groningen, Netherlands

The world's silicon supply won't be able to cover the demand for flash data storage by 2040. However, nature has been encoding enormous amounts of information in DNA for billions of years. By introducing a sequence into DNA of bacterial spores, one of the most durable and resilient forms of life, "CryptoGE®M" tries to combine storing information and.

Groningen, Netherlands

The world is changing and so are the energy needs of humanity. Fossil resources are being depleted and it is clear that the transition to clean sustainable energy has to be made. We believe synthetic biology can be an important catalyst in this process. Specifically, we engineer a Bacillus subtilis biofilm to function as a cation exchange membrane. Such a.

Groningen, Netherlands

Infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa often pose problems for burn wound treatments. We developed a new kind of bandage that prevents these infections and reduces the use of antibiotics, thereby lowering the risk of developing antibiotic resistance. The bandage consists of a hydrogel that contains genetically engineered.

Groningen, Netherlands

Bone fractures and other physical problems are often solved with implants. Unfortunately about half of the implants give rise to complications, such as inflammations, infections and rejection by the host. Beside the delays in recovery, which cost the American society alone $30 billion a year, the undesired effects also cause great discomfort and a 25%.

Groningen, Netherlands

The Food Warden is a system that detects meat spoilage. It uses Bacillus subtilis cells. Their natural genetic response to the gases of rotten meat has been identified and linked to a pigment production system. In this way, a consumer can easily see when the meat is spoiled: it's rotten and you know it!

Groningen, Netherlands

Count Coli, aims to design a genetic device able to count and memorize the occurrences of an input signal. This is achieved by utilizing auto-inducing loops that act as memory units, and an engineered riboregulator acting as an AND gate. This design of the device is modular allowing free change of both input and output signals. Each increase of the counter.

Groningen, Netherlands