• Intracellular proteolysis in prokaryotes: physiological role of the&nbsp ;<H>proteasome in actinomycetes (Rhodococcus, Streptomy ces)
• Molecular mechanisms of biodegradation of pollutants and agrochemicals b y <H>Rhodococcus
• <H>Chemotaxis by plant-colonizing bacteria and pollutant-degradi ng bacteria
• Plant growth promotion by plant-associated bacteria: application of <H>IVET (in vivo expression technology) to study the interactio n of nitrogen-fixing Pseudomonas with rice plants
• Ecological role of bacterial allelopathy: characterization of novel <H>bacteriocins and other bacteria-specific toxins from rh izosphere-colonizing Pseudomonas

Recent projects

• Ecological roles of cyclic lipopeptides from plant-beneficial rhizobacteria: a chemical-biology approach to decipher primary functions of secondary metabolites. (01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021) - Co-promotor
• Ecology and molecular biology of bacterial adaptation to pesticides (20/01/2016 - 02/07/2021) - Co-promotor
• Pseudomonas proteins and metabolites mediating interactions in the rhizosphere (01/10/2000 - 30/09/2022) - Promotor

Recent publications

• launch Muangkaew, P., De Roo, V., Zhou, L., Girard, L., Cesa-Luna, C., Hofte, M., De Mot, R., Madder, A., Geudens, N., Martins, J.C. with Geudens, N. (corresp. author), Martins, J.C. (corresp. author) (2023). Stereomeric Lipopeptides from a Single Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetase as an Additional Source of Structural and Functional Diversification in Pseudomonas Lipopeptide Biosynthesis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 24 (18), Art.No. ARTN 14302. doi: 10.3390/ijms241814302
• launch Girard, L., Lood, C., De Mot, R., van Noort, V., Baudart, J. with Girard, L. (corresp. author), Baudart, J. (corresp. author) (2023). Genomic diversity and metabolic potential of marine Pseudomonadaceae. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 14, Art.No. ARTN 1071039. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1071039 via repository
• launch Cesa-Luna, C., Geudens, N., Girard, L., De Roo, V., Maklad, H.R., Martins, J.C., Hofte, M., De Mot, R. with De Mot, R. (corresp. author) (2023). Charting the Lipopeptidome of Nonpathogenic Pseudomonas. MSYSTEMS, 8 (1). doi: 10.1128/msystems.00988-22 via repository
• launch Cesa-Luna, C., Geudens, N., Girard, L., De Roo, V., Maklad, H.R., Martins, J.C., Höfte, M., DE MOT, R., De Mot, R. (contr.), Cesa-Luna, C. (contr.), Geudens, N. (contr.), Martins, J.C. (contr.), De Roo, V. (contr.), Girard, L. (contr.) (2022). Replication Data for: Charting the lipopeptidome of non-pathogenic Pseudomonas. KU Leuven RDR. doi: 10.48804/KKFWS9 via repository
• launch Ferrarini, E., Spacapan, M., Lam, V.B., McCann, A., Cesa-Luna, C., Marahatta, B.P., De Pauw, E., De Mot, R., Venturi, V., Hofte, M. with Hofte, M. (corresp. author) (2022). Versatile role of Pseudomonas fuscovaginae cyclic lipopeptides in plant and microbial interactions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 13, Art.No. ARTN 1008980. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1008980 via repository
• launch Girard, L., Geudens, N., Pauwels, B., Hofte, M., Martins, J.C., De Mot, R. with De Mot, R. (corresp. author) (2022). Transporter Gene-Mediated Typing for Detection and Genome Mining of Lipopeptide-Producing Pseudomonas. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 88 (2), Art.No. ARTN e01869-21. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01869-21 via repository
• launch De Roo, V., Verleysen, Y., Kovács, B., Matthias, D.V., Girard, L., Höfte, M., De Mot, R., Madder, A., Geudens, N., Martins, J. (2022). An NMR fingerprint matching approach for the identification and structural re-evaluation ofPseudomonaslipopeptides. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.01.07.475420 via repository
• launch Andric, S., Meyer, T., Rigolet, A., Prigent-Combaret, C., Hofte, M., Balleux, G., Steels, S., Hoff, G., De Mot, R., McCann, A., De Pauw, E., Arias, A.A., Ongena, M. with Andric, S. (corresp. author) (2021). Lipopeptide Interplay Mediates Molecular Interactions between Soil Bacilli and Pseudomonads. MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM, 9 (3), Art.No. ARTN e02038-21. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.02038-21 via repository
• launch Girard, L., Lood, C., Hofte, M., Vandamme, P., Rokni-Zadeh, H., van Noort, V., Lavigne, R., De Mot, R. with Lavigne, R. (corresp. author), De Mot, R. (corresp. author) (2021). The Ever-Expanding Pseudomonas Genus: Description of 43 New Species and Partition of the Pseudomonas putida Group. MICROORGANISMS, 9 (8), Art.No. ARTN 1766. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9081766 via repository
• launch Nguyen, D.D., Saharuka, V., Kovalev, V., Stuart, L., Del Prete, M., Lubowiecka, K., De Mot, R., Venturi, V., Alexandrov, T. with Alexandrov, T. (corresp. author) (2021). Facilitating Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Microbial Specialized Metabolites with METASPACE. METABOLITES, 11 (8), Art.No. ARTN 477. doi: 10.3390/metabo11080477 via repository