Current projects

Current and previous projects:

• Aquafeed Technology Centre. NFR. Infrastructure.

• Biodiversity and biotechnological potential of Archaea from Bulgarian hot springs. BG09 Programme. EEA Scholarships Fund  (more info here).

• NeoSaxitoxin - Production of Neosaxitoxin using Genetic Methods. NFR - BIOTEK2021

• Integrative analysis of extremophiles in search for new biotechnological solutions. NILS Science and Sustainability (ES07). EEA Grant.

• THERMOGENE - Novel thermostable enzymes for industrial biotechnology. NFR/ERA-NET Industrial Biotechnology project

•  Biohydrogen production from organic waste using thermophilic bacteria in high-temperature fermentations (Thai Research Fund)

• Cooperation with Armenia in microbiology of extreme environments. SIU/UD. 1.8 mill NOK

• Center for Geobiology (SFF, partner)

• Biological methane oxidation by methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia under  hot and acidic conditions; evolution of an ancient metabolic trait. NFR (FRIMEDBIO), 3.5 mill NOK.

• Is methane oxidation an ancient metabolic trait? (CGB, more info)

• Subsurface metagenomics, functional microbial diversity analysis and gene discovery in deep and hot petroleum reservoirs (VISTA, more info)

• Metagenomics and gene discovery in Antarctic terrestrial habitats (NFR, more info)

• The Nordic Archaea Network (NordForsk, more info)

• Assessment of microbial pollution and diversity of Escherichia coli and Shigella in freshwater resources in Bangladesh (NUFU, more info)

• Mikrobiell studie for Morvin/Kristin korallrev (STATOIL, more info)

• Silicon Cell Model for the central carbohydrate metabolism of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus under temperature variation (SysMo, more info)