Researcher
Natalie Verstraeten
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Auto-ecology, Biogeography and phylogeography, Anthropological genetics, Bacteriology, Biogeochemical cycli, Epigenomics
- Disciplines (KU Leuven):Biological system engineering
Affiliations
- Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Michiels Lab (Research group)
Member
From1 Oct 2017 → Today - Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → 30 Apr 2018
Projects
1 - 8 of 8
- Combined computing and experimental platform for microbial strain optimization towards biochemicals productionFrom5 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Microbial cell factories to convert food waste into high-value chemicalsFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Harnessing CRISPRi screening for unravelling genetic mechanisms underlying persistence in Escherichia coliFrom15 Sep 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Investigating the mechanisms of drug persistence in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and its impact on the emergence of resistanceFrom1 Sep 2020 → TodayFunding: Baekeland
- Heterogeneity and speed of bacterial persister cell formation and awakeningFrom13 Mar 2018 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Persister cells under the magnifying glass: drafting a persister model and development of persistence diagnostics markersFrom4 Nov 2015 → 10 Jun 2020Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Mechanistic insights in HokB-mediated persister formation and awakeningFrom26 Aug 2015 → 12 Nov 2019Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Identification and optimization of ethanol tolerance mechanisms in Escherichia coli by means of experimental evolution.From1 Oct 2012 → 24 Aug 2017Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
Publications
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- Exploring novel strategies to unravel the mechanisms underlying persister recovery in Escherichia coli(2024)
Authors: Elen Louwagie, Jan Michiels, Natalie Verstraeten, Liselot Dewachter
- Environmental, mechanistic and evolutionary landscape of antibiotic persistence(2023)
Authors: Celien Bollen, Elen Louwagie, Natalie Verstraeten, Jan Michiels, Philip Ruelens
- Genetic engineering of Escherichia coli to produce unsaturated fatty acids of medium chain length(2023)
Authors: Paul Matthay, Jan Michiels, Kristel Bernaerts, Natalie Verstraeten, Bert Sels
- YbiB: a novel interactor of the GTPase ObgE(2023)
Authors: Silke Vercauteren, Liselot Dewachter, Natalie Verstraeten
Pages: 3420 - 3435 - Strategies to Enhance the Biosynthesis of Monounsaturated Fatty Acids in Escherichia coli(2023)
Authors: Paul Matthay, Thomas Schalck, Natalie Verstraeten, Jan Michiels
Pages: 36 - 50 - Bacterial host factors involved in conjugation(2022)
Authors: Laetitia Van Wonterghem, Jan Michiels, Natalie Verstraeten
- Ecology and evolution of antibiotic persistence(2022)
Authors: Laure Verstraete, Bram Van den Bergh, Natalie Verstraeten, Jan Michiels
Pages: 1 - 14 - Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Host Factors Affecting Conjugation in Escherichia coli(2022)
Authors: Laetitia Van Wonterghem, Natalie Verstraeten, Jan Michiels
- Studying bacterial persistence: Established methods and current advances(2021)
Authors: Elen Louwagie, Laure Verstraete, Jan Michiels, Natalie Verstraeten
Pages: 3 - 20 - Detecting persister awakening determinants(2021)
Authors: Dorien Wilmaerts, Jan Michiels, Natalie Verstraeten
Pages: 197 - 208