FACILITIES
Biodiscovery Platform
Isolate, investigate and discover yet unknown microbes and communities in a high-throughput way.
Modular Bioreactor Platform
Mix and match different bioreactors to investigate sustainable microbiological solutions for environmental challenges.
Parallel Cultivation Platform
Cultivate and investigate a wide array of microbial communities in extremely well-defined conditions.
FAIR Data Platform
Make sure your data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (= FAIR) in collection, storage and analysis.
NEWS & VIEWS
UNLOCKing microbial potential: Team play is key
In a series of blogs, we compare our mission with team play in sports: Why only focus on individual star players? In this first part, we explain why team play is key.
New publication: Designing a Diet-based Minimal Microbiome
Recently, UNLOCK-scientists composed a synthetic community of ten key microbes from the human intestinal tract: The Diet-based Minimal Microiobome.
Building your own semantic database
Finally, in this third part of our blog series on our FAIR Data Station, we describe how you can build your own Semantic database
Being FAIR still sounds like work… Why bother?
Previously, we introduced you to our FAIR Data Station. In this second part, we answer the question: Why even bother?
Data FAIRification the easy way - Getting started
In a three-piece blog series, we guide you through the concept of our FAIR Data Station. First, in this blog, we explain how to get started.
Calling for a systems approach in microbiome research
Based on research projects and publications on microbiomes, researchers recently concluded that a systems approach is needed to fully unlock the potential of microbiomes.
PEOPLE SUPPORTING UNLOCK
"I am very confident that UNLOCK will provide an integrated world‐class facility that will greatly impact the world's main international research quests."
"The novel opportunities offered by UNLOCK will enable us to develop highly efficient and sustainable applications for water treatment. We therefore enthusiastically support the implementation of UNLOCK."
"Being able to cultivated and preserve mixed microbial communities, together with their molecular characterization and the improved access to their data, will open up new avenues for basic and applied life sciences."
"I expect that we and the research groups and companies we collaborate with will greatly benefit from direct use of this facility and of its outcomes."
"The UNLOCK experimental and data platform will facilitate remarkable insights into untapped microbial resources, with the potential to lead to disruptive changes across a broad range of scientific fields and industries."
"Through its integrated approach, UNLOCK involves the unprecedented combination of cultivation and characterisation for tapping into the extensive resources of microbial consortia. It is a truly uniquely approach which will undoubtedly lead to ground-breaking discoveries in microbiology in the future."
TIMELINE
3 November 2022
Official UNLOCK opening
The official opening of UNLOCK is officially planned. Save the date and subcribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date!
27 June 2021
Launch website
On World Microbiome Day, we officially launched the full UNLOCK website. Have a look around!
1 September 2020
Construction phase
Behind the scenes, the UNLOCK team started constructions on the planned facilities.
30 April 2020
UNLOCK funded
Wageningen University & Research and the Delft University of Technology are rewarded with a 25-million subsidy to invest in research facility UNLOCK.
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