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The Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research is a research group within the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is dedicated to research and teaching in interdisciplinary urban studies, with particular strengths in geography, spatial planning and urban design.

Artisan bakery sourdoughs are characterized by a typical microbiota, often determined by the house microbiota, the flour and/or ingredients used, as well as the process conditions applied.

Industrial-scale microbial production of biochemicals and -fuels offers a sustainable alternative to the current petrochemical processes.

Temperature is a crucial physical parameter for all living organisms. The ability to respond adequately to a temperature rise or drop underlies the survival and fitness of a species.

Roughly a third of the earth’s land is degraded. Human activities including industry and overcultivation resulted in marginal soils. These soils are unbalanced in nutrients and often polluted with heavy metals.

The advent of atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanoimaging techniques heralded a new era for imaging and analysis of biomolecules and cells.

The existence of life in extraterrestrial environments is currently one of the most intriguing scientific questions.

Enzymes play a central role in all metabolic and cellular pathways. The Versées lab therefore focuses on the elucidation of the mechanisms that underlie the tremendous catalytic power and regulation of enzymes and enzyme complexes.

The genomes of lost bacteria contain a plethora of small operons commonly referred to as toxin- antitoxin (TA) systems. The toxin typically slows down or almost completely halts bacterial metabolism as a consequence of various kinds of stress such as food limitations.

The DNA Damage Response (DDR) is a large signaling network that senses and responds to different types of DNA damage. It controls DNA repair, cell cycle progression, apoptosis and all other responses to replication stress.