Had a blast at the ISME17 conference in Leipzig (Germany) and came back wowed and inspired by all the amazing science!
News
New paper in The ISME Journal
Our new paper in ISME – now available online!
“Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
ISME Journal Cover Art
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:
New paper on Biorxiv
Our new paper is on bioRxiv! “Virulence evolution in the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa“
Seminar on vampire-like bacteria
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
Move to the University of Oxford
Big news: I moved from Switzerland to the UK and started my new position at the Department of Zoology at Oxford. So excited!
PhD defense
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)
New paper in BMC Ecology and Evolution
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!
Article on my PhD work (in German)
Article on my PhD work (in German)
http://www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2017/asoziale-bakterien.html