{"projectrec":{"ProID":5044,"StandardTitle":"Meta-transcriptomics of plankton in the Belgian Part of the North Sea","OrigTitle":null,"Acronym":null,"AbstractEnglish":"Natural ecosystems are often too complex to study them under controlled laboratory conditions. Organisms interact with their environment in multifaceted ways. Our understanding of how species traits, species interactions and evolution of individual species contribute to ecosystem functions is therefore still very fragmentary. Nevertheless, we urgently need better insights in the functioning of ecosystems to predict how they will change under anthropogenic pressures such as global warming or ocean acidification.\r\nIn this research line, VLIZ aims to unravel important processes in natural plankton communities such as ecosystem functions, and mutualist and antagonistic interactions among different species using an ecosystems biology approach. Specifically, VLIZ wants to use high throughput sequencing to describe the composition (metagenomics) and functions (meta-transcriptomics) of plankton communities. This information will be used to model relevant ecosystem processes such as biogeochemical cycling. VLIZ is furthermore interested to investigate how such processes will alter under various scenarios of global change.\r\nThe study area is primarily the southern North Sea, where field surveys can readily be conducted to cover seasonal and spatial dynamics of plankton communities.","AbstractOtherLang":"Natuurlijke ecosystemen zijn vaak te complex om ze onder gecontroleerde laboratoriumomstandigheden te bestuderen. Organismen interageren op verschillende manieren met hun omgeving. Ons begrip van hoe soortenkenmerken, soorteninteracties en de evolutie van individuele soorten bijdragen aan ecosysteemfuncties is daarom nog steeds zeer fragmentarisch. Desondanks hebben we noodzaak aan betere inzichten in het functioneren van ecosystemen om te voorspellen hoe deze zullen veranderen onder antropogene druk zoals opwarming van de aarde of verzuring van de oceaan.\r\nIn deze onderzoekslijn wil VLIZ belangrijke processen in natuurlijke planktongemeenschappen zoals ecosysteemfuncties en mutualistische en antagonistische interacties tussen verschillende soorten ontrafelen met behulp van een ecosysteembiologische benadering. VLIZ wil met name high throughput-sequencing gebruiken om de samenstelling (metagenomics) en functies (meta-transcriptomics) van planktongemeenschappen te beschrijven. Deze informatie zal worden gebruikt om relevante ecosysteemprocessen zoals biogeochemical cycling te modelleren. VLIZ is verder geïnteresseerd om te onderzoeken hoe dergelijke processen zullen veranderen in verschillende scenario's van wereldwijde verandering.\r\nHet studiegebied is voornamelijk de zuidelijke Noordzee, waar veldonderzoeken gemakkelijk kunnen worden uitgevoerd om de seizoensgebonden en ruimtelijke dynamiek van planktongemeenschappen te ontsluiten.","DateLastModified":{"date":"2025-01-01 01:34:59.980894","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+01:00"},"ParentProID":null,"BeginYear":2020,"EndYear":2024,"BMonth":1,"EMonth":12,"BeginMonth":"January","EndMonth":"December","OrigTitleLangCode":null,"OrigTitleLangID":null,"OrigTitleLangNL":null,"OrigTitleLang":null,"OtherAbstractLangCode":"nl","OtherAbstractLangID":41,"OtherAbstractLang":"Dutch","OtherAbstractLangNL":"Nederlands","Progress":"Completed","ProgressNL":"Afgelopen","PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"ND":"2020-06-19","UD":"2025-01-01","DMPFlag":0,"Budget":null,"BudgetCurrency":"EUR"},"parent":null,"persons":null,"projects":null,"events":null,"datasets":null,"institutes":[{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"VLIZ","ProPartID":16960,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":"en","OrigNameLangID":15,"FullOrigName":"Flanders Marine Institute","Line1":"VLIZ – InnovOcean Campus","Line2":"Jacobsenstraat 1","Line3":"8400 Oostende","Line4":null,"InsID":36,"FullStandardName":"Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee","Role":"Partner","RoleID":17,"EncAddress":"VLIZ – InnovOcean Campus, Jacobsenstraat 1, 8400 Oostende, Belgium"},"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":[{"Surname":"Hablützel","Firstname":"Pascal","Initials":"P.","LeaderFlag":0,"PersID":35204,"Role":null,"RoleID":null,"PastInstitute":0,"BeginDay":1,"BeginMonth":10,"BeginYear":2017,"EndDay":null,"EndMonth":null,"EndYear":null}],"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":null,"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null},{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"IMEC","ProPartID":17600,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":null,"OrigNameLangID":null,"FullOrigName":null,"Line1":"Kapeldreef 75","Line2":"3001 Leuven","Line3":null,"Line4":null,"InsID":3609,"FullStandardName":"Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum","Role":"Partner","RoleID":17,"EncAddress":"Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium"},"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":[],"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":null,"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null},{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"VIB","ProPartID":17601,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":"nl","OrigNameLangID":41,"FullOrigName":"Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie","Line1":"Rijvisschestraat 120","Line2":"9052 Zwijnaarde","Line3":null,"Line4":null,"InsID":83,"FullStandardName":"Flanders Institute for Biotechnology","Role":"Partner","RoleID":17,"EncAddress":"Rijvisschestraat 120, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium"},"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":[],"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":null,"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null},{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"UGent","ProPartID":17602,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":"en","OrigNameLangID":15,"FullOrigName":"Ghent University","Line1":"Rectoraat","Line2":"Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25","Line3":"9000 Gent","Line4":null,"InsID":471,"FullStandardName":"Universiteit Gent","Role":"Partner","RoleID":17,"EncAddress":"Rectoraat, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Gent, Belgium"},"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":[],"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":null,"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null}],"refs":null,"urls":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"funderids":null,"othtermsFRIS":null,"pictures":[],"spcols":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1}