Dr. Annelies Geirnaert

Staff of Professorship for Food Biotechnology

ETH Zürich

Inst.f. Lebensm.wiss.,Ern.,Ges.

LFV D 42

Schmelzbergstrasse 7

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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07/2018 – present Senior Assistant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health; Laboratory of Food Biotechnology

11/ 2015 – 06/2018 Post-doctoral researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health; Laboratory of Food Biotechnology

08/ 2011 – 10/ 2015 PhD in Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology,

10/ 2009 – 06/ 2011 MSc. Bioscience Engineering in Food Science & Nutrition, Ghent University

10/ 2006 – 11/ 2009 BSc. Bioscience Engineering Chemistry & Food Technology, Ghent University

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Publications: Google Scholar Profilecall_made

Publications in other Institutions

external pagePrebiotics, faecal transplants and microbial network units to stimulate biodiversity of the human gut microbiome

Pieter Van den Abbeele, Willy Verstraete, Sahar El Aidy, Annelies Geirnaert and Tom Van de Wiele

Microbial Biotechnology (2013) 6(4), 335–340

external pageOptimized Cryopreservation of Mixed Microbial Communities for Conserved Functionality and Diversity

Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Emilie N. P. Courtens, Annelies Geirnaert, Sven Hoefman, Adrian Ho, Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas, Dietmar H. Pieper, Ruy Jauregui, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck,Tom Van de Wiele, Peter Vandamme, Kim Heylen and Nico Boon

PLoS ONE 9(6): e99517

external pageButyricicoccus pullicaecorum, a butyrate producer with probiotic potential, is intrinsically tolerant to stomach and small intestine conditions

Annelies Geirnaert, Alix Steyaert, Venessa Eeckhaut, Bo Debruyne, Jan B.A. Arends, Filip Van Immerseel, Nico Boon and Tom Van de Wiele

Anaerobe 30 (2014) 70-74

external pageInterindividual differences in response to treatment with butyrate-producing Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum 25–3T studied in an in vitro gut model

Annelies Geirnaert, JunWang, Magali Tinck, Alix Steyaert, Pieter Van den Abbeele, Venessa Eeckhaut, Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas, Gwen Falony, Debby Laukens, Martine De Vos, Filip Van Immerseel, Jeroen Raes, Nico Boon and Tom Van de Wiele

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91, 2015

external pageHydrodynamic chronoamperometry for probing kinetics of anaerobic microbial metabolism – case study of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii

Antonin Prévoteau, Annelies Geirnaert, Jan B.A. Arends, Sylvain Lannebère, Tom Van de Wiele and Korneel Rabaey

Scientific Reports | 5:11484

external pageInulin-type fructan fermentation by bifidobacteria depends on the strain rather than the species and region in the human intestine

Marija Selak, Audrey Rivière, Frédéric Moens, Pieter Van den Abbeele, Annelies Geirnaert, Irena Rogelj, Frédéric Leroy and Luc De Vuyst

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, pp 1-11