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Researcher
Benjamin Horemans
- Disciplines:Environmental microorganism biotechnology
Affiliations
- Chemical and Biochemical Reactor Engineering and Safety (CREaS) (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2022 → Today - Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 10
- In vitro engineering of gut microbiomes from wood-eating beetles for the valorization of lignocellulosic biomass to value-added biochemicalsFrom28 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Engineering of microbiomes towards biotechnology for wood waste valorization, nutrient efficiency and recoveryFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Putting ecological invasion theories to the test: improving bioaugmentation of drinking water treatment systems for organic micropollutant removalFrom26 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Understanding environmental factors and mechanisms that govern the interactions within a pesticide degrading bacterial consortiumFrom22 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Improving biodegradation of an organic micropollutant mixture in dilute freshwaters by means of mixed substrate utilization.From27 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Putting ecological invasion theories to the test: improving bioaugmentation of drinking water treatment systems for organic micropollutant removalFrom27 Jul 2022 → 26 Jun 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Understanding strain to strain interactions that affect the bioaugmentation success of a pesticide degrading bacterium in a microbial communityFrom7 Sep 2018 → 20 Jun 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Bacterial invasion ecology in microbial biofilms captured by time-lapse microscope imaging. A movie on bacterial strife.From1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: FWO research grant KAN
- Molecular markers as an application to optimize bioaugmentation in sand filters for rinking water production.From1 Oct 2014 → 1 Apr 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- The genetic basis of bacterial invasion into a microbial community. A determinant for the success of microbial biotechnology.From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2014Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
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- Characterizing phage mechanisms that target Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms(2023)
Authors: Annegrete Visnapuu, Rob Lavigne, Benjamin Horemans
- Interspecies Interactions of the 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide Degrading Aminobacter sp. MSH1 with Resident Sand Filter Bacteria: Indications for Mutual Cooperative Interactions That Improve BAM Mineralization Activity(2022)
Authors: Siyao Du, Benjamin Horemans, Dirk Springael
Pages: 1352 - 1364 - The complete genome of 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) degrader Aminobacter sp. MSH1 suggests a polyploid chromosome, phylogenetic reassignment, and functions of plasmids(2021)
Authors: Benjamin Horemans, Cédric Lood, Vera van Noort, Rob Lavigne, Dirk Springael
- Bacteriophage-mediated interference of the c-di-GMP signalling pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa(2021)
Authors: Jeroen De Smet, Jeroen Wagemans, Hanne Hendrix, Annegrete Visnapuu, Benjamin Horemans, Abram Aertsen, Rob Lavigne
Pages: 967 - 978 - Aminobacter sp. MSH1 mineralises the groundwater micropollutant 2,6-dichlorobenzamide through a unique chlorobenzoate catabolic pathway(2019)
Authors: Bart Raes, Benjamin Horemans, René De Mot, Dirk Springael
Pages: 10146 - 10156 - The pesticide mineralization capacity in sand filter units of drinking water treatment plants (DWTP): Consistency in time and relationship with intake water and sand filter characteristics(2019)
Authors: Benjamin Horemans, Dirk Springael
Pages: 427 - 436 - Intra- and inter-field diversity of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-degradative plasmids and their tfd catabolic genes in rice fields of the Mekong delta in Vietnam(2019)
Authors: Benjamin Horemans, René De Mot, Dirk Springael
- Catabolism of the groundwater micropollutant 2,6-dichlorobenzamide beyond 2,6-dichlorobenzoate is plasmid encoded in Aminobacter sp MSH1(2018)
Authors: Bart Raes, Benjamin Horemans, Cédric Lood, Vera van Noort, Rob Lavigne, Dirk Springael
Pages: 7963 - 7979 - Catabolic task division between two interchangeable near-isogenic subpopulations co-existing in a herbicide-degrading bacterial consortium: consequences for the interspecies consortium metabolic model(2018)
Authors: Pieter Albers, Cédric Lood, Benjamin Horemans, Rob Lavigne, Vera van Noort, René De Mot, Kathleen Marchal, Dirk Springael
Pages: 85 - 96 - Groundwater contamination with 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) and perspectives for its microbial removal(2017)
Authors: Benjamin Horemans, Bart Raes
Pages: 5235 - 5245