Endosymbiotic bacteria live in symbiosis within other organisms. While they can be beneficial to their hosts, some are also capable of causing serious harm.
Syngas fermentation is a promising approach for converting industrial waste gases into valuable biochemicals. In this study, we developed iSJ444, the first genome-scale metabolic model for Clostridium luticellarii, a lesser-known but highly promising syngas-fermenting bacterium. Our model predicts how this microbe can convert syngas into valuable short-chain fatty acids, providing insights into its metabolic pathways and potential for industrial applications.
We are excited to welcome Martijn Melissen to our research team at SSB and UNLOCK! In this article, he introduces himself and shares his vision for his role.
This landmark study, spearheaded by Andrea Dell’Olio and supervised by Josep Rubert from the Food Quality and Design and Nutritional Biology (division of human nutrition and health) chair groups at Wageningen University
Our latest research, published in The ISME Journal, introduces BIG-Syc, a synthetic infant gut microbial community. This groundbreaking model sheds light on the complex interactions within infant gut microbiota driven by human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)
This publication represents the culmination of several years of work and is part of an ongoing community effort to update the genome-scale model (GEM) of S. cerevisiae, an industrial workhorse organism. The Yeast9 model is the latest consensus model, following the previous update published in 2019 (Yeast8).
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