Aquatic projects focus on role of allelopathy in aquatic foodwebs (van de Waal), disruption of chemical communication by pharmaceuticals (van Donk), host-pathogen interactions to combat diseases in aquaculture (de Bruijn) and algal-bacterial interactions in decentralised sanitation (Fernandes).
Terrestrial project cover the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and focus on plant-insect communication to find biological pest control (Kostenko, Biere), soil-plant feedback (Bezemer, van der Putten), microbial modulation of plant secondary metabolism (Je Seung), microbial pest control (Raaijmakers), volatile-mediated microbial interactions (Garbeva), mining microbial interactions for discovery of novel secondary metabolite (Garbeva, Tyc) and the role of chemical communication in biogeochemical processes (Bodelier).