Dr. Koen Venema

Current affiliation:
TNO Quality of Life, Department of BioSciences, The Netherlands

Recent publications:

  1. de Graaf, AA, Venema, K. (2007) Gaining insight in microbial physiology in the large intestine: a special role for stable isotopes. Adv Microb Physiol. 53: 73-168.
  2. Venema K, Havenaar R and Minekus M. (2009) Improving in vitro simulation of the stomach and intestines. In "Designing functional foods: Measuring and controlling food structure breakdown and nutrient absorption" (Eds D J McClements and E A Decker). pp 314-339.
  3. Kovatcheva-Datchary P, Egert M, Maathuis A, Rajilic-Stojanovic M, de Graaf AA, Smidt H, de Vos WM, Venema K. (2009) Linking phylogenetic identities of bacteria to starch fermentation in an in vitro model of the large intestine by RNA-based stable isotope probing. Environ Microbiol. 11(4):914-26.
Expertise and research areas:
Microbiology of the GIT, TNO in vitro GIT models – TIM, survival of probiotics in the upper GI tract, effects of probiotics or prebiotics on the activity and composition of the microbiota in the colon, micro-array platform to study the composition of the microbiota, and stable-isotope labeled substrates to study the activity of the microbiota.

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MEDIA PARTNERS

           International Journal of Probiotics&Prebiotics       Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins