Had a blast at the ISME17 conference in Leipzig (Germany) and came back wowed and inspired by all the amazing science! Check out my poster on bacterial self-lysis

Our new paper in ISME – now available online! “Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0231-9

One of my microscopy pictures was short-listed (Top 3) for The 2018 ISME Journal Cover Competition! The three finalist images will be displayed at the ISME 2018 conference in Leipzig, Germany: https://isme17.isme-microbes.org/

Our new paper is on bioRxiv! “Virulence evolution in the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa“ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/19/250845

I wrote a short blog article on a fascinating seminar on vampire-like bacteria. https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/article/interview-vampire-exploring-predatory-bacteria-bdellovibrio

Big news: I moved from Switzerland to the UK and started my new position at the Department of Zoology at Oxford. So excited! https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-elisa-granato https://zoo-kfoster.zoo.ox.ac.uk/node/33

IT IS DONE! On Sept 15th I successfully defended my PhD thesis. It was an amazing feeling. Thanks to everyone for coming and making this a day I will never forget. You can read the thesis here: “Evolution of Cooperation and Virulence in an Opportunistic Pathogen” (2017)

Paper published: My third thesis chapter was accepted for publication in BMC Ecology and Evolution (2017). I experimentally evolved bacteria to test whether they would evolve back to being cooperators after they had evolved to be cheaters. Turns out … they don’t! You can read the paper here (Open Access)

Article on my PhD work (in German) http://www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2017/asoziale-bakterien.html