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De Vos Paul
Huys Geert
Vandamme Peter
Willems Anne
 
 
Vandamme Peter
Address: K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35
                9000 Gent
                Belgium

Email: Peter.Vandamme@UGent.be
Tel : (+32) 9 264.51.13
Fax: (+32) 9 264.50.92
Research activities :

My general research interests are microbial biodiversity, evolution and taxonomy, identification and detection of unusual infectious agents in humans and animals, cystic fibrosis microbiology, and diversity and ecology of lactic acid bacteria.
Projects :

  1. Bacterial species: from new concept to new definition (FWO-Vlaanderen)

  2. Studie van de dominante colon microbiota bij mucoviscidosepatiënten (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds UGent)

  3. Development of fingerprints as barcodes for industrial microbial populations

  4. Integration of high-throughput approaches to link culturable microbial diversity and metabolic potential in traditional fermented foods: a new screening strategy for functional starter cultures (FWO-Vlaanderen)

  5. Metaproteomics analysis of the distal intestional microbiotica of cystic fibrosis patients (FWO-Vlaanderen)

  6. Diversity of lactic acid bacteria from traditional fermented food in northern Vietnam (Belgische Technische Coöperatie)

  7. New tools for the unraveling of the importance of the gut microbiota

  8. Mining of (micro)biological profiles: going beyond cluster analysis… (Baekeland fonds)

  9. Ontwikkeling en toepassing van MALDI-TOF massaspectrometrie voor snelle identificatie van bierbedervers en brouwerijcontaminanten

Teaching :

General Microbiology
      Bachelor 2 Biotechnology & Biochemistry

General Microbiology: Diversity of Prokaryotes, Fungi and Yeast (Paul De Vos and Peter Vandamme)
     Bachelor 3 Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Applied Microbiology
      Master 2 Biology, cluster Functional Biology
Curriculum :

Employment

2001-present: Research professor (BOF-ZAP) (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium).
2000-2001: Doctor-Assistant at the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology (Ghent University, Belgium).
1998-2000: Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium).
1991-1998: Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium and Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Antwerp).
1989-1991: Research Assistant of the National Fund for Scientific Research (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium).
1986-1989: I.W.O.N.L doctoral student grants (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium).
Education

1986-1990: PhD in sciences, group botany, section microbiology, at the Ghent University (Belgium)
Title of the dissertation: 'New insights in the taxonomy and identification of the genus Campylobacter'.
Promotors: Prof. Dr. J. De Ley and Prof. Dr. K. Kersters (LM-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium).
Selected papers :

  1. D. Gevers, F. M. Cohan, J. G. Lawrence, B. G. Spratt, T. Coenye, E. J. Feil, E. Stackebrandt, Y. Van de Peer, P. Vandamme, F. L. Thompson, and J. Swings. 2005. Re-evaluating prokaryotic species. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 3:733-779.

  2. A. Baldwin, E. Mahenthiralingam, K. M. Thickett, D. Honeybourne, M. C. J. Maiden, J. R. W. Govan, D. P. Speert, J. J. LiPuma, P. Vandamme and C. G. Dowson. 2005. Multilocus sequence typing scheme that provides both species and strain differentiation for the Burkholderia cepacia complex. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43:4665-4673.

  3. T. Coenye and P. Vandamme. 2003. Diversity and significance of Burkholderia species occupying diverse ecological niches. Environ. Microbiol. 5:719-729.

  4. K. J. Björkroth, U. Schillinger, N. Weiss, B. Hoste, W. Holzapfel, H. J. Korkeala, and P. Vandamme. 2002. Taxonomic study of Weissella confusa and description of Weissella cibaria sp. nov., detected in food and clinical samples. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52:141-148.

  5. T. Coenye, P. Vandamme, J. R. W. Govan, and J. J. LiPuma. 2001. Taxonomy and identification of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:3427-3436.

  6. K. J. Björkroth, R. Geisen, U. Schillinger, N. Weiss, P. De Vos, W. H. Holzapfel, H. J. Korkeala and P. Vandamme. 2000. Characterization of Leuconostoc gasicomitatum sp. nov associated with spoiled raw tomato-marinated broiler meat strips packaged under modified-atmosphere conditions. Appl. Environm. Microbiol. 66:3764-3772.

  7. P. Vandamme, B. Holmes, M. Vancanneyt, T. Coenye, B. Hoste, R. Coopman, H. Revets, S. Lauwers, M. Gillis, K. Kersters, and J. R. W. Govan. 1997. Occurrence of multiple genomovars of Burkholderia cepacia in cystic fibrosis patients and proposal of Burkholderia multivorans sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:1188-1200.

  8. J.-F. Bernardet, P. Segers, M. Vancanneyt, F. Berthe, K. Kersters, and P. Vandamme. 1996. Cutting a Gordian knot: emended classification and description of the genus Flavobacterium, emended description of the family Flavobacteriaceae, and proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (basonym Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978). Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46:128-148.

  9. P. Vandamme, B. Pot, M. Gillis, P. De Vos, K. Kersters, and J. Swings. 1996. Polyphasic taxonomy, a consensus approach to bacterial systematics. Microb. Rev. 60:407-438.

  10. P. Vandamme, B. Pot, E. Falsen, K. Kersters, and L. A. Devriese. 1996. Taxonomic study of Lancefield streptococcal groups C, G, and L (Streptococcus dysgalactiae) and proposal of S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis subsp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46:774-781.

  11. J. R. W. Govan, J. E. Hughes, and P. Vandamme. 1996. Burkholderia cepacia: medical, taxonomic, and ecological issues. J. Med. Microbiol. 45:395-407.

  12. P. Vandamme, P. Segers, M. Vancanneyt, K. Van Hove, R. Mutters, J. Hommez, F. E. Dewhirst, B. J. Paster, K. Kersters, E. Falsen, L. A. Devriese, M. Bisgaard, K.-H. Hinz, and W. Mannheim. 1994. Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the avian respiratory tract. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 44:24-37.

  13. P. Vandamme, J.-F. Bernardet, P. Segers, K. Kersters, and B. Holmes. 1994. New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 44:827-831.

  14. P. Vandamme, M. Vancanneyt, B. Pot, L. Mels, B. Hoste, D. Dewettinck, L. Vlaes, C. Van Den Borre, R. Higgins, J. Hommez, K. Kersters, J.-P. Butzler, and H. Goossens. 1992. Polyphasic taxonomic study of the emended genus Arcobacter with Arcobacter butzleri comb. nov. and Arcobacter skirrowii sp. nov., an aerotolerant bacterium isolated from veterinary specimens. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 42:344-356.

  15. P. Vandamme, E. Falsen, R. Rossau, B. Hoste, P. Segers, R. Tytgat, and J. De Ley. 1991. Revision of Campylobacter, Helicobacter, and Wolinella taxonomy: emendation of generic descriptions and proposal of Arcobacter gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 41:88-103.
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