Every year, the Flanders water technology network Watercircle.be awards young engineers for their promising research for the water industry. This year, CMET’s Jorien Favere won the first price for her master thesis “Flow cytometric microbial monitoring for safeguarding drinking water quality” (2017-2018).
CMET researchers study microbial communities & interactions to better understand and steer ecological processes with an ultimate aim of improving and enabling biotechnological applications
The Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) is a part of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University. CMET is specialized in the study and application of mixed microbial cultures or communities. A microbial community consists of several populations, which each represent a functional biological entity and thus a diverse metabolic capacity. The assemblage of these biological entities represents -when properly organized- a powerful resource. CMET researchers focus on the optimal management of these microbial resources. We define it as Microbial Resource Management (MRM), enabling us to develop novel products and (technological) processes to improve our environment or human health in the most sustainable way.
More specifically, CMET applies this approach in the fields of Abatement & prevention of bacterial diseases, Applied microbial ecology, Host-microbe interaction technology, Life support systems for space, Microbial electrocatalysis & electrochemical engineering, Resource recovery and valorization, and Water treatment and production.
The CMET research group is part of the Department of Biotechnology and comprises about 85 academics, technical and administrative staff. On this website you will find all information about CMET research, education and services. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us or visit us on our LinkedIn page.
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News
29-01-2019
Both Professor Nico Boon and Professor Willy Verstraete listed as Highly Cited Researchers in 2018!
01-01-2019
Professor Korneel Rabaey was recognised as “Fellow of the International Water Association” due to his sustained outstanding contribution to the water profession, and to delivering the IWA mission of creating a water-wise world, improving the wellbeing of societies and the environment.
07-12-2018
Synthetic microbial communities for urine nitrification in regenerative life support systems: bottom-up design, ground optimization and spaceflights.
The public defence will take place on 19 of December 2018 at 16:30 in the Academieraadzaal
(Hall of the Academic Board), room A 0.030 at Campus Coupure, Coupure Links 653, 9000
Event date: Wed, 19/12/2018 - 16:30
21-11-2018
Technology for thermophilic nitrogen removal from wastewater: Developing combined nitrification/denitrification and proving anammox
The public defence will take place on Friday 7th December 2018 at 17:00 in De Cirque, Bijlokesite-Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Gent.
21-11-2018
Technologies for resource recovery from human urine: terrestrial and space applications
The public defense will take place on December 3, 2018 at 5 pm in the Aula of Ghent University, Voldersstraat 9, 9000 Gent.
25-09-2018
Tuesday October 16th, the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology will bring together leading international researchers in the field of single cell microbial analysis at the “Single-cell Technologies for Microbial Community Characterization” mini-conference.
Event date: Tue, 16/10/2018 - 08:45 to 16:00
20-09-2018
The research of Prof. Tom Van de Wiele and Dr. Chris Callewaert was featured in Superquark, a program by RAI.
11-09-2018
Microbial population and community dynamics in natural and managed
freshwater systems: from methodology development to mechanistic insights
The public defence will take place on October 15th 2018 at 17:00 at the August Vermeylen room of “Het Pand”, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent.
Event date: Mon, 15/10/2018 - 17:00
12-07-2018
Op 11 juli 2018, de Vlaamse feestdag, reikt de Vlaamse Regering eretekens uit. De bekroonden zijn uitzonderlijk verdienstelijk geweest of hebben door hun uitzonderlijke talenten bijgedragen aan het positieve imago en de uitstraling van Vlaanderen.
