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