Dr Fred C Boogerd

e-mail: fred.boogerd@falw.vu.nl

Room G226e
Tel.: 020 5987194
Fax.: 020 5987229

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Dr F.C. Boogerd
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
Department of Molecular Cell Physiology
De Boelelaan 1085
NL-1081 HV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands

Projects involved :

Ongoing research projects
  1. Microbial physiology in general.
    Focussing on Physiology, Bioenergetics, Biochemistry, Systems Biology, and Modelling.

  2. Nitrogen assimilation in Escherichia coli.
    Studying the control and regulation of bacterial ammonium assimilation in vivo, in vitro, and in silico.
    Collaboration: Frank J. Bruggeman.

  3. Modeling and Analysis of the stress response in Escherichia coli.
    Within the 6th Framework Programme of the European Community, an integrated model of the stress response will be developed for the global behaviour of E. coli. A consortium of European biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists work together in the EC-MOAN project.
    Collaboration: CWI (Amsterdam), INRIA (Rhône-Alpes, France), Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), Masaryk University (Brno), University of Edinburgh.

  4. Philosophy of (Systems) Biology.
    Approaching phenomena in physiology and biochemistry from the point of view of the Philosophy of Systems Biology.
    Collaboration: Frank J. Bruggeman, Robert Richardson, Achim Stephan, Charbel El-Hani.

  5. Dicarboxylates transport in Escherichia coli.
    Characterizing the roles of Yhid and Yhif in dicarboxylates transport in atp deletion strains of Escherichia coli.
    Collaboration: Peter R. Jensen.

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Previous research projects
  1. Bioenergetics of denitrification in Paracoccus denitrificans.
    A bioenergetical/bacterial physiological study
    (Free University Amsterdam)

  2. Manganese oxidation in Leptopthrix discophora and Bacillus species.
    A biochemical study
    (University of Leiden)

  3. Oxidation of pyrite by Sulfolobus species and other acidophilic, thermophilic bacterial species.
    A bioprocesstechnological study
    (Delft University of Technology)

  4. Nitrogen fixation in free-living Azorhizobium caulinodans.
    A bacterial physiological study
    (Free University Amsterdam)

  5. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by Bradyrhizobium species in Arachis hypogaea.
    A plant physiological study
    (Free University Amsterdam)

  6. Dicarboxylate transport in an atp deletion strain of Escherichia coli.
    A molecular biological/physiological study
    (Technical University of Denmark)

  7. Microgravity and bacterial metabolism.
    Assessing the effect of diffusion/convection on microbial metabolism under microgravity.
    Collaboration: Jack van Loon, Henk Kooi


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