Deciphering the network of microbial, environmental and physical factors underlying aggregation and enhanced performance in syntrophic microorganism communities

Project Information

SYNAG

Grant agreement ID: 948138

DOI

10.3030/948138

Project closed

EC signature date 23 October 2020

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 992 622,00

EU contribution

€ 992 622,00

Coordinated by

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

In order to meet the requirements of participating in the Open Research Data Pilot a Data Management Plan DMP will be generated and delivered latest six months after project start

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Impact of additives on syntrophic propionate and acetate enrichments under high-ammonia conditions

Author(s): Eduardo Pinela, Anna Schnürer, Anna Neubeck, Jan Moestedt, Maria Westerholm
Published in: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Issue 108, 2025, ISSN 0175-7598
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-024-13263-7

Microaceticoccus formicicus gen. nov., sp. nov., an ammonia-tolerant formate-utilizing bacterium originating from a biogas process

Author(s): George Cheng, Anna Schnürer, Maria Westerholm
Published in: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Issue 75, 2025, ISSN 1466-5026
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006773

Complete genome sequence of <i>Citroniella saccharovorans</i> DSM 29873, isolated from human fecal sample

Author(s): George Cheng, Maria Westerholm, Anna Schnürer
Published in: Microbiology Resource Announcements, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2576-098X
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mra.00015-24

Disruption-induced changes in syntrophic propionate and acetate oxidation: flocculation, cell proximity, and microbial activity

Author(s): Nils Weng, Hossein Nadali Najafabadi, Maria Westerholm
Published in: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 2731-3654
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-025-02644-3

Interplay of iron and sulfur with syntrophic propionate oxidation

Author(s): Nils Weng, Eduardo Pinela, Sepehr Shakeri Yekta, Jan Moestedt, Maria Westerholm
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1798413

Nε-acetyl- <i>β</i> -lysine or glycine betaine as compatible solutes in response to increasing ammonia in <i>Methanoculleus sp</i> strains

Author(s): Anna Schnürer, Maria Westerholm, Anders Broberg
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Letters, Issue 373, 2026, ISSN 1574-6968
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnaf143

Catabolism and interactions of syntrophic propionate- and acetate oxidizing microorganisms under mesophilic, high-ammonia conditions

Author(s): Nils Weng, Abhijeet Singh, Jonas A. Ohlsson, Jan Dolfing, Maria Westerholm
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1389257

Syntrophic entanglements for propionate and acetate oxidation under thermophilic and high-ammonia conditions

Author(s): Abhijeet Singh, Anna Schnürer, Jan Dolfing, Maria Westerholm
Published in: The ISME Journal, 2023, ISSN 1751-7370
Publisher: The ISME Journal
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01504-y

Syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacteria in methanogenic systems

Author(s): Maria Westerholm; Magdalena Calusinska; Jan Dolfing
Published in: FEMS MIcrobiology Reviews, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0168-6445
Publisher: Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuab057