WCFS - Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences | Microbial functionality and safety

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Microbial functionality and safety

Solid-state food fermentations

Microbial stress response in minimal processing

Gastrointestinal tract host-microbe interactions and functional microbiomics

Engineering of microbial functionality

Food preservation and safety

Microbe-mediated gut metabolism

Microbial functionality and safety
Programme Director Prof. Dr Willem M. de Vos

Research in Microbial Functionality and Safety aims to generate a knowledge base for use in developing fermented foods with improved functionality. Such foods may also target microbial activity in the gastrointestinal tract. The research also focuses on new approaches to control food safety and preservation. The research makes use of gram-positive bacteria with known genomes as model systems and in recent years there has been a shift in the complexity of research subjects and nowadays the focus is on complex cofactor engineering, mixed culture analysis, and studies of the activity of microbial consortia of the human intestinal tract. In addition, generic are initiated and exploited including post-genomics, meta-genomics and nanotechnology as well as systems approaches and modelling.

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