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FEMS Research Grantees 2016 (RG2016-1 and RG2016-2)
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0101
2016-1
Rositsa Vasileva Tropcheva
BG-BSM Bulgaria 1.5 Effects of Lactobacillus bulgaricus on Epithelial Vaginal Immunity Against Vaginotropic Pathogens
15-Aug-2016 to 30-Sep-2016
Raina Fichorova, MD, PhD, Genital Tract Biology Laboratory of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
3000
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0089
2016-1
Marina Miklenić HR-HMD Croatia 3 Transformation induced aneuploidy in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
04-Apr to 04 -Jul-2016
Prof. Hvoje Petković, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Safety, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2700
FEMS-RG-2015-0099
2016-1
Toke Bang-Andreasen
DK-DMS Denmark 2 Changes in Active Microbial Communities and Expression of Important Functional Genes in Forest and Agricultural Field Soil after Wood Ash Addition Revealed by Metatranscriptomics
1-April to 31-May-2016
Anders Lanzen, Reseacher, and Carlos Garbisu, Head of Department, Conservation of Natural Resources, Spain
2500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0113
2016-1
Catherine Oluwakemi Esuola
DE-VAAM
Germany 3 Siderophore production in Gordonia sp. and Rhodococcus sp. as a reponse to metal-stress
04-Apr-2016 to 30-Jun-2016
Josef Trögl, Ph.D., Department of Technical Sciences, Faculty of Environment, Jana Evangelisty Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
3400
FEMS-RG-2015-0086
2016-1
Petra Sebestyén HU-MMT
Hungary 3 Optimization of astaxanthin production by Haematococcus pluvialis in Twin Layer reactor
15 February until 15 May 2016
Michael Melkonian, Prof. Dr., Melkonian Laboratory, Botanical Institut, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
3300
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0090
2016-1
Laura Grande IT-SIMGBM
Italy 3 Coupling genomic data with in vitro virulence of Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157 isolated from mild versus severe disease
14-March-10 June 2016
Dr. Eelco Franz (PhD), RIVM - Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Centre for Zoonoses & Environmental Microbiology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
3000
FEMS-RG-2015-0117
2016-1
Claudia Pala IT-SIM Italy 3 Deep-sea Bacterial Community Structure at the Arctic Long-Term Observatory HAUSGARTEN,
01 March-31- May 2016
Dr. Verena Carvalho, HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deepsea Ecology and Technology Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
3500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0096
2016-1
Ms. Justyna Ruchala
PL-PTM Poland 3 Studying the role of CAT8 transcriptional activator in the yeast xylose alcoholic fermentation
04-Apr to 07 Jul 2016
Dr. Kostyantyn Dmytruk, Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology NANU, Lviv, Ukraine
2500
FEMS-RG-2015-0097
2016-1
Katarzyna Maria Zacharczuk
PL-PTM Poland 1 extra months
Evaluation of NA purification methods for the detection of E. coli STEC strains in food by RT-PCR
12 March -12 April 2016
Dr. Alfredo Caprioli, European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Escherichia coli, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
1200
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0115
2016-1
Elham Karimi PT-SPM Portugal 3 Functional genomics and metagenomics of the marine sponge microbiome: shedding light on the symbiotic capacities of marine Alphaproteobacteria spp
Postponed stay: 02-Jan-2017 to 30-Mar 2017
Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany
3800
FEMS-RG-2015-0079
2016-1
Dunja Duvnjak RS-SSM Serbia 3 Chemical composition of selenized Coriolus versicolor medicinal mushroom
29 Feb to 29 May 2016
Dr. Jadwiga Turlo, Medicinal University of Warsaw, Department of Drug Technology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Warsaw, Poland
3000
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0094
2016-1
Ms Zorica Tomičić RS-SSM Serbia 1 and 3 wks
Antimicrobial and anti-adhesion activity of plant extracts and essential oils against Candida spp. and Pichia spp.
06-June to 01 Aug 2016
Prof. dr Peter Raspor and Prof. dr Sonja Smole Možina, Chair of Biotechnology and microbiology, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000
FEMS-RG-2015-0102
2016-1
Svetlana Sokovic RS-SSM Serbia 3 Production of GABA and Identification of Microvesicles by Lactobacilli with Probiotic Potential
June, 6th 2016 to August, 26th 2016
Dr. Patricia Rúas, Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Dairy Research lnstitute (IPLA-CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
3500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0093
2016-1
Lenka Tisakova CZ&SK-CSSM
Slovakia 3 Plasmids of psychrophilic bacteria from the polar (Arctic and Antarctic) regions and their role in adaptation of the hosts to harsh environmental conditions
01-Sep-2016 to 26-Nov-2016
Dr. Habil. Lukasz Dziewit, Dept. of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
3300
FEMS-RG-2015-0107
2016-1
Alexandra Svrbická
CZ&SK-CSSM
Slovakia 3 Impact of the plasma membrane on the yeast susceptibility to cytotoxic compounds
01-Apr-2016 to 30-Jun-2016
Prof. Dr.Sc. Roberto Antolovic, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, Croatia,
2500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0081
2016-1
Masa Vodovnik SI-SMD Slovenia 3 Exploring compost metagenome for novel lignocellulolytic enzymes for second generation biofuel
18-Jan-2016 to 18-Apr-2016
Professor Neil C Bruce, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Chair of Biotechnology, University of York, York, UK
3500
FEMS-NRC-2015-0084
2016-1
Alberto J. Martín-Rodríguez
ES-SEM Spain 3 Anaerobic respiration and c-di-GMP metabolism as modulators of Shewanella algae biofilm formation
03-June to 05 Sept 2016
Professor Ute Römling, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
4000
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0098
2016-1
Ignacio Belda ES-SEM Spain 3 Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of thiol-release pathway in wine fermentation conditions
15-April-2016 to 15-July-2016
Alexandra Mendes Ferreira, PhD (Prof. Aux.), Centre of Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology (CGBA) of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University (BioISI-Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute; Microbiology and Biotechnology Group), Portugal
3000
FEMS-RG-2015-0126
2016-1
F. J. Pérez Rodríguez
ES-SEV Spain 3 Study of the codon usage sequence space of hepatitis A virus populations
1 June to 31-Aug 2016
Marco Vignuzzi, PhD, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit (PVP), CNRS UMR 3569, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
4000
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0127
2016-1
Alba Blesa ES-SEM Spain 2 TN-seq sequencing of a transposon-based mutagenesis genomic library in Thermus thermophilus
14 Aug-12-Oct 2016
Dr. Felipe Cava; IP, PhD, associate professor, Cavalab (UCMR, MIMS-Umeå University), Umeå, Sweden
2500
FEMS-RG-2015-0106
2016-1
Ruth Schmidt NL-KNVM
the Netherlands
3 Fungal volatiles: From gene to product
11-Sept to 02- Dec 2016
Magnus Karlsson, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Uppsala, Sweden
3800
FEMS-RG-2015-0109
2016-1
Deniz Guneser TR-TMC Turkey 3 Investigation of the colistin resistance mechanisms in clinical multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates
1 Sept to 1 Dec 2016
Prof. Patrice Nordmann, Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit - Medical and Molecular Microbiology / Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
3800
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0085
2016-1
Fatemeh Ghaderiardakani
UK-BPS UK 3 Cross-Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Ulva mutabilis and Ulva linza
01-Jun to 31 Jul 2016
Dr. Thomas Wichard, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jena, Germany
3800
FEMS-RG-2015-0087
2016-1
Alexander Borodavka
UK-SGM UK 3 Probing RNA-RNA interactions involved in gene segment assortment in rotaviruses
15-April-2016 to 15 July 2016
Prof Don C Lamb, Laboratory of Fluorescence Applications in Biology, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Munich, Germany
4000
FEMS-RG-2015-0091
2016-1
Jade Marie O'Leary
UK-BMS UK 3 Genomes to dynamic decay communities: Understanding fungal interactions during early decomposition events in natural lignocellulosic substrate
02/03/2016 - 06/06/2016
Dr Galya Orr, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), Richland, USA
4000
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2015-0111
2016-1
Kathryn Schoenrock
UK-BPS UK 1 Epibacterial community function in the physiology of polar coralline algae
16 October- 13 Nov 2016
Dr. Laurie C. Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Microsensor Group, Bremen, Germany
1800
FEMS-RG-2015-0124
2016-1
Robert Marshall UK-SGM UK 2 Structural investigation of interaction in tripartite drug efflux pumps of Gram-negative bacteria
22-Aug to 21-Oct 2016
Dr Martin Picard, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique 13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie Paris France
2850
FEMS-RG-2015-0105
2016-1
Mariana Yurkiv UA-SMU Ukraine 3 New methods for selection of the efficient glutathione producers in yeast Hansenula polymorpha
16-Mar-2016 to 16 June-2016
Dr Dorota Grabek – Lejko, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Rzeszow University Cwiklinskiej Str.
2500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-1)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
2, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Total paid: 86750
We received 47 applications for this round 2016-1 and 31 were awarded, 3 turned down the awarded grant so in total 28 received a grant.
Alexander Borodavka (UK-Microbiosoc) is the FEMS/ ESCMID awardee in 2016 and received EUR 1000 extra on top of the Research Grant
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0042
2016-2
Mr Samuel Alvarez,[email protected], [email protected]
ES-SEM Spain 3 Characterization of the PE/PPE proteins in the live attenuated M. tuberculosis vaccine MTBVAC
15-Sep-2016 - 16 Dec-2016
Dr. Roland Brosch, Head of the Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics laboratory, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2000
FEMS-RG-2016-0044
2016-2
Graciela Alonso Castro, [email protected], [email protected]
Spain - Spanish Society for Virology (ES-SEV)
Spain 3 Immunebiology of viral and mammalian Schlafen genes
01-Sep-2016 to 30-Nov-2016
GUNASEGARAN KARUPIAH, Associate Professor, School of medicine (University of Tasmania), Hobart, Australia
2000
FEMS-RG-2016-0048
2016-2
Mr. Aleksander Mahnic, [email protected]
Slovenia - Slovenian Microbiological Society (SI-SMD)
Slovenia 2 Interactions between gut microbiota and Clostridium difficile in mini-bioreactor arrays (MBRAs)
05-Sep-2016 to 06-Nov-2016
Robert A. Britton, Ph.D., Therapeutic Microbiology Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
3500
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0051
2016-2
Linda Grillova, [email protected]
Czech Rep & Slovakia - Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
Czech Rep 2 Development of a new molecular typing system for Treponema pallidum subsp. Pallidum
29.8.2016-30.10. 2016
Natasha Arora, Ph.D, Forensic Genetics, Department of the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2900
FEMS-RG-2016-0052
2016-2
Dr. Bram Van den Bergh, [email protected], [email protected]
Belgium - Belgian Society for Microbiology
Belgium 2 1/2 To pump or not to pump, that seems the question for antibiotic-tolerant bacterial persister cells.
01- Aug to 03 Oct 2016
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Friedrich, Institut für Biochemie - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
2800
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0053
2016-2
Rosa Santomartino, [email protected], [email protected]
Italy - Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies
Italy 3 Hypoxic regulation of RAG1 expression and chromatin remodelling in K. lactis.
24-Sep-2016 to 23-Dec-2016
Prof. Marc Lemaire, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, UMR 5240, Bâtiment André Lwoff , UCBL, Domaine Scientifique de la Doua, France
3600
FEMS-RG-2016-0055
2016-2
Ms. Magdalena Joanna Grzeszczuk, [email protected]
Poland - Polish Society of Microbiologists
Poland 3 Impact of Helicobacter pylori Dsb system on the stability and biological activity of HopQ protein
1 Oct 2016 to 22 Dec 2016
Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Meyer, Max Planck Institute for infection biology, Berlin, Germany
3800
FEMS-RG-2016-0056
2016-2
Katerynak Krylova, [email protected]
Ukraine - Society of Microbiologists of Ukraine
Ukraine 1 Metagenomic investigation of the Black Sea viral diversity
20-Sep-2016 to 20-Oct-2016
Gergios Kotoulas, Research Director, Institute of
1600
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
Marine Biology and Genetics, Heraclion, Greece
FEMS-RG-2016-0057
2016-2
Tomas Buryska, [email protected]
Czech Rep & Slovakia - Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
Czech Republic
3 In vivo evolution on chip
Q1 2017 (the dates are not yet known)
Peter Ertl, University Professor, Cell Chip Group, Vienna, Austria
2900
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0058
2016-2
Federica Anna Falchi, [email protected]
Italy - Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies
Italy 3 Characterization of the lipopolysaccharide transport machine in Escherichia coli: in search of a function for the elusive component LptC
17 October 2016 to 17 January 2017
Professor Jean-Francois Collet, Institut de Duve, Bruxelles, Belgium
3700
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0059
2016-2
Mr. Tanel Ilmjärv, [email protected]
Estonia - Estonian Society for Microbiology
Estonia 3 Bioinformatics approaches towards the reconstruction of genomic information of bacteria isolated from wastewater treatment plant and from laboratory evolution experiments
29-Sep-2016 to 22-Dec-2016
Pedro Miguel Santos, Assistant professor, Innovation for Life - Functional Genomics and Nanobiotechnology for Sustainable Living, Braga, Portugal
3600
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0060
2016-2
Miss Martina Marijanović, [email protected]
Croatia - Croatian Microbiological Society
Croatia 3 The effect of prebiotics on the abundance of Ct85, a bacterial phylotype indicative of healthy human gut
09-Jan-2017 to 07-Apr-2017
Professor Airi Palva PhD, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Uiniversity of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
3800
FEMS-RG-2016-0062
2016-2
Dr. Maria Jose LEÓN, [email protected] Spain - Spanish Society for Microbiology (ES-SEM)
Spain 3 Salt-stress response systems of the successful moderate halophilic bacterial genus Spiribacter
May 3 to August 3 2017
Prof. Dr. Erhard Bremer, Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
3600
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0063
2016-2
Claudio Hidalgo Cantabrana, [email protected]
Spain - Spanish Society for Microbiology
Spain 3 Harnessing native CRISPR-Cas systems for healthy foods
03-Oct to 20 Dec-2016
Rodolphe Barrangou. PhD Associate Professor, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA
4000
FEMS-RG-2016-0064
2016-2
Martinović, Tijana [email protected]
Slovenia - Slovenian Microbiological Society
Slovenia 1 Estimating microbial biomass in different construction wood samples with qPCR method
01-Sep-2016 to 30-Sept-2016
Petr Baldrian, PhD, Head of the Laboratory, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
1400
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0065
2016-2
Mr. Nikola Popović, [email protected], [email protected]
Serbia - Serbian Society for Microbiology
Serbia 3 Characterization of bioactive peptides from Cheddar cheese released from caseins by proteolytic LAB
01-Oct-2016 to 01-Jan-2017
Dr. Sanja Seratlic, Department of food biosciences, Moorepark, Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
3600
FEMS-RG-2016-0066
2016-2
Mr. Alberto Domingo López-Muñoz, [email protected]
Spain - Spanish Society for Virology (ES-SEV)
Spain 2 Novel activities of herpes simplex virus glycoprotein G: cell migration and activation
31-Oct- 23-Dec-2016
Professor Peter O’Hare, Imperial College London (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine), London, UK
2900
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0067
2016-2
Mrs. AYSEGUL BORAL, [email protected]
Turkey - Turkish Microbiological Society
Turkey 3 Diagnostics of medically relevant Exophiala species (black yeasts)
01-Nov-2016 to 30-Jan-2017
G. Sybren de Hoog, Professor, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, the Netherlands
3600
FEMS-RG-2016-0069
2016-2
Miss Yoshita Chandravadan Bhide, [email protected]
Netherlands - Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology
the Netherlands
3 Comparative evaluation of universal influenza vaccine candidates
15-Aug-2016 to 15-Nov-2016
Professor Dr Nils Lycke, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Göteborg, Sweden
3750
FEMS Research Grant (RG2016-2)
Submission ID
Year and Round
Name Society Country of Residence
Duration
Title Period Supervisor and Host lab
Amount (EUR)
FEMS-RG-2016-0070
2016-2
Mrs. kalaycı cekin, [email protected]
Turkey - Turkish Microbiological Society
Turkey 2 Epidemiological insights into the carbapenem-resistance mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in a Turkish tertiary care hospital
13 Oct to 07 Dec 2016
Thierry Naas, Associate Professor, University of Paris South Medical School, Paris, France
2500
TOTAL 61550
We received 23 applications, awarded 22 with a grant, later 2 were cancelled so 20 received a grant.