Over the last three months, we had the pleasure of hosting Jaime Gonzalez Gutierrez, a PhD Student in Prof. Jose Jimenez's lab (University of Surrey). With us, Jaime worked on P. aeruginosa's pyoverdine uptake in a host context.
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We've just published an article in The ISME Journal!
In the first project of Chiara Rezzoagli's PhD, we looked at the importance of bacterial social traits when colonizing C. elegans gut, and if cooperation via these social traits when colonizing can be undermined by cheating. This work was a collaboration with former PhD student Elisa Granato, and more information about it is available in this "Behind the Paper"! After a fruitful collaboration with Sam Brown, Martin Ackermann and their teams, we've recently published an article where we look into how cost functions of cooperative traits lead to either individual or group-level optimization of public goods production.
On April 1st, we welcomed Désirée Schimtz to the lab. She is interested in microbial inter-species interactions in a host context. Here's to a successful project!
Tobias Wechsler's MSc project was just published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Here, we look at how policing evolves and influences public goods based cooperation. Another fruitful collaboration with Akos Dobay!
Vera Vollenweider has joined our lab this January to pursue her PhD. She will be working with our natural isolates collections, looking for novel siderophores and testing their feasibility as anti-microbial agents. Best of luck, Vera!
We'd like to welcome Lorenzo Alimonti to our Lab! Lorenzo is a Master's student from Italy (Roma Tre University) and has joined us to develop a part of his project, on the emergence of cheater phenotypes in different P. aeruginosa strains.
As of 01.01.2019, we have joined the newly-formed Department of Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of Zurich! We had an amazing and successful time at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, and are now looking forward to replicating these experiences at the new Department.
We have a new paper in Evolution, Medicine and Public Health!
This work was part of Chiara Rezzoagli's PhD project, and in it we tested if (and how) P. aeruginosa evolves resistance to two proposed antivirulence drugs. |
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