Pieter Van den Abbeele

TL;DR: Simulating the mucosal gut microbiota represents a breakthrough in modeling and mechanistically studying the human intestinal microbiome in health and disease and may enhance butyrate bioavailability, which could be useful in treating diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease.

TL;DR: High-resolution analysis of in vitro-cultured gut microbiota offers new insight on the microbial colonization process and indicates the importance of digestive parameters that may be crucial in the development of new in vitro models.

TL;DR: Why and how synthetic microbial communities are applied for research purposes and for which applications they have been and could be successfully used are reviewed.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the intestinal microorganisms also coevolved with each other, leading to coherently organized, resilient microbial associations, which might explain the remarkable temporal stability of microbial communities.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that next to IN, LC-AX are promising prebiotic compounds by stimulating production of health-promoting metabolites by specific microbes in the proximal regions, so that prebiotics may potentially improve gut health along the entire length of the intestine.