Project title: “Development of a cultivation system for complex microbial communities based on the principles of microbial ecology.”
Project contract number: No. 1.1.1.3/1/24/A/104
Project partners: SIA "Biosan", SIA "Metabonet"
Project implementation period: 01.09.2025. - 31.08.2028. (36 months)
Total project funding: EUR 656,000.00 (ERDF EUR 509,712.00; State budget funding EUR 89,872.00; Private eligible costs EUR 33,849.60)
Project manager / lead researcher: Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Latvia Dr. Jānis Liepiņš
Project administrative manager: Laureta Buševica, e-mail: [email protected]
Project objectives:
To develop a technical solution (technology and bioreactor prototype) that would allow the principles of microbial ecology to be applied to the cultivation, monitoring, and enrichment of complex microbial communities of limited size in a bioreactor system.
Project results:
- Three open access Q1 scientific publications.
- Two large data sets stored in public data repositories, ensuring data sustainability and complying with FAIR principles.
- A bioreactor prototype that combines several parallel cultivation volumes, a small working volume with functions that allow controlled mass transfer between cultivation volumes.
- Know-how on how to implement microorganism ecology-based principles in the design of small-scale bioreactors.
- Employment of an early-career researcher – 1 new researcher position.
Planned project activities:
- Innovative microbe ecology-based technology for the cultivation and monitoring of complex microbial communities in limited volumes.
- Small-scale, multi-volume bioreactor prototype adapted for the maintenance of complex microbial communities.
- Validation of innovative technologies and bioreactor prototype.
- Project coordination, support, dissemination of results, and public communication.
