SouDriBio - Sound-driven biotechnology

Transmission of environmental signals within a cell is one of the most important processes an organism applies to survive and successfully compete in its ecological niche. Optimization of these processes can lead to faster processing of information with less consumption of cellular resources. In this project we applied, audible sound/ultrasound as a stimulus and we integrated proteomic data with genome/transcriptome scale data to study its effect on microbial performance. Such integrative approaches can potentially lead to functional inference at the systems level through identification of pathways and molecular networks that are implicated in sound signaling cascades.

Project team: Paul Christakopoulos (project leader), Nasim Najjarzadeh, Adolf Krige, Leonidas Matsakas, Ulrika Rova

Partners: Engineering Acoustics, Luleå University of Technology

Duration: 2015-2019

Funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR)