Optimized Cryopreservation of Mixed Microbial Communities for Conserved Functionality and Diversity

• Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Emilie N. P. Courtens, Annelies Geirnaert

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Emilie N. P. Courtens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Emilie N. P. Courtens, Annelies Geirnaert

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Annelies Geirnaert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Emilie N. P. Courtens, Annelies Geirnaert

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Sven Hoefman,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Adrian Ho,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Dietmar H. Pieper,

  Affiliation Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, Department of Medical Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Ruy Jauregui,

  Affiliation Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, Department of Medical Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Siegfried E. Vlaeminck,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Tom Van de Wiele,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Peter Vandamme,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Kim Heylen,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Nico Boon

  * E-mail: nico.boon@ugent.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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