News: IPM proposal granted

Good news! Our proposal “Towards visualizing gene transfer at the single cell level using microfluidic devices” has been granted by the Innovation Program Microbiology, an initiative from the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University and Research.

In collaboration with Dr. Klaus Mathwig (Pharmacy, Groningen), Dr. Peter van Baarlen (Host-Microbe Interactions, Wageningen) and Simon van der Els (NIZO food research and HMI, Wageningen), we aim to monitor bacterial conjugation, in which DNA is transferred from a donor cell to a recipient cell either via conjugative plasmids or via integrative conjugative elements, in real time and at the single-cell level.