Lisa van Sluijs has been awarded a VENI grant
- dr. L (Lisa) van Sluijs
- assistant professor
Two hundred research projects by researchers who have been awarded a Veni grant. Each researcher will receive a maximum of 320,000 euros. The grant is an incentive for adventurous, talented and groundbreaking researchers to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.
The Veni is a personal scientific grant aimed at researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. The grant instrument allows recipients to conduct research of their own choosing.
The project:
Take a ride with me? Catching the impact of virus hitchhiking in soil
Soils store most terrestrial carbon, which exists for up to 80% of dead microbes. Viruses accelerate microbial death, but their impact is believed to be constrained by a lack of viral motility. However, Lisa recently demonstrated that viruses of bacteria gain movement by hitchhiking with microscopic roundworms. Her proposal is to investigate ecological, molecular and evolutionary mechanisms of microbial hitchhiking. Lisa expect that hitchhiking accelerates microbial death pathways directly via increased contact and indirectly via evolutionary changes in viral virulence. Together, this forms a new starting point to understand microbial hitchhiking as a process in carbon storage and soil health.
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dr. L (Lisa) van Sluijs
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