applied  microbiology  research  lab

Our lab works towards a systems understanding of pathogen transmission: integrating host, pathogen and environmental aspects.

We combine patient cohorts with novel technologies to have an innovative translational research setting. In vitro and in vivo data is further used in computational models. 

Our newest Blog-Posts

How much should we sequence? - Swiss SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

We are happy to share our latest publication on How much should we sequence? An analysis of the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 surveillance effort. Congrats Fanny for the amazing work. We would also like to thank all our colleagues involved in the project.

Welcome to new students!

A warm welcome to our three (!) new students!

Thiviya does her BSc at the FHNW and will do an internship for 6 months, supervised by Tim. 

Priya, an MSc student at the VU Amsterdam, will do her Master's project for 6 months, supervised by Fanny and Adrian. 

Laze does his MSc at ETH and will do a 12-week internship, supervised by Diana.

 

We wish you all a good start!

Vera's successful poster!!!

Vera Bregy, our project intern, attended her first conference, the ChlamHealth conference in Ascona. She wonderfully presented work from our STIDirect project and generated a lot of interest.

Clean, cleaner, Lab cleaning day!

🎤🧼 To a wild arrangement of iconic pop songs, we gathered to do our yearly lab cleaning day and had great fun!

❄️🧽 All the freezers are emptied, defrosted, cleaned and re-organised and the lab experienced a super thorough deep clean 

🫧✨ Even though it was cleaning, it was a fun day activity for the whole lab. Cheers to a super tidy and clean lab!