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Name: | Defoirdt | |
| Surname | Tom | ||
| Nationality: | Belgian | ||
| Thesis | Quorum sensing disruption and the use of short-chain fatty acids and polyhydroxyalkanoates to control luminescent vibriosis |  |
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| Date of PhD Defense: | April 17, 2007 | ||
| Place of Phd Defense: | Ghent University, Belgium | ||
| Detailed Curriculum Vitae | |||
Publications
| 2007 | Alternatives to antibiotics to control bacterial infections: luminescent vibriosis in aquaculture as an example |
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| Defoirdt, T., Boon, N.; Sorgeloos, P., Verstraete, W., Bossier, P. | ||
| TRENDS in Biotechnology Vol.25 No.10, 472-479 | ||
| 2007 | The natural furanone (5Z)-4-bromo-5- (bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone disrupts quorum sensing-regulated gene expression in Vibrio harveyi by decreasing the DNA-binding activity of the transcriptional regulator protein luxR |
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| Defoirdt, T., Miyamoto, M., Wood, T., Meighen, E., Sorgeloos, P., Verstraete, W., Bossier, P. | ||
| Environmental Microbiology 9(10), 2486–2495 | ||
| 2007 | The bacterial storage compound poly-b-hydroxybutyrate protects Artemia franciscana from pathogenic Vibrio campbellii |
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Defoirdt, T., Halet, D., Boon, N.; Van De Wiele, T.; Sorgeloos, P., Bossier, P., Verstraete, W.
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| Environmental Microbiology 9(2), 445–452 | ||
| 2006 | Short-chain fatty acids protect gnotobiotic Artemia franciscana from pathogenic Vibrio campbellii |
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Defoirdt, T., Halet, D., Sorgeloos, P., Bossier, P., Verstraete, W.
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| Aquaculture 261, 804–808 | ||
| 2006 | Quorum sensing-disrupting brominated furanones protect the gnotobiotic brine shrimp Artemia franciscana from pathogenic Vibrio harveyi,
Vibrio campbellii, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates |
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Defoirdt, T.; Crab, R.; Wood, T.K.; Sorgeloos, P.; Verstraete, W.; Bossier, P.
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| Appl. Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 72, No. 9, 6419–6423 | ||
| 2005 | The impact of mutations in the quorum sensing systems of Aeromonas hydrophila, Vibrio anguillarum and Vibrio harveyi on their virulence towards gnotobiotically cultured Artemia franciscana |
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Defoirdt, T.; Bossier, P.; Sorgeloos, P.; Verstraete, W.
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| Environmental Microbiology, 7 (8), 1239–1247 | ||
| 2004 | Disruption of bacterial quorum sensing: an unexplored strategy to fight infections in aquaculture |
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Defoirdt, T.; Boon, N.; Bossier, P.; Verstraete, W. - 2004
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| Aquaculture, 240(1-4): 69-88 | ||
Awards & Prizes
Daniel Jouvance Marine Biology
Prize, 2007
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