applied microbiology research lab

We are thrilled to share that our Applied Microbiology Research (AMR) group has been awarded the 2026 Sustainability Grant by the UZH Faculty of Medicine for our new project, "LEAF-Forward IMM" By implementing the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF), we will reduce our energy consumption, optimize sample management, and minimize plastic waste to achieve LEAF Bronze and Silver certification. Ultimately, this pilot project will produce a practical implementation guide to help other research groups across the IMM and Faculty of Medicine transition toward sustainable laboratory practices.

Our PhD student Janis won the "My Thesis in 180s" award at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Microbiology (SSM) in Montreux! Congratulations to Janis, he successfully defended Zoey's win last year and delivered a great pitch with fantastic drawings (have a look!!) and analogies. 
Booh to the climber E.coli with the PapGII tool! Yay to the tourist E.coli, coming and going peacfully! 

The bar is set high for Egli PhDs to also win next years competition, so fasten your seatbelts, get ready and stay tuned! 🏎️ 

September brings lots of changes: one farewells, three new faces, and three returns!  

• Goodbye to our bioinformatician Chumei, who will endeavour on doing a PhD in Christian von Mering's group. Congratulations and all the best! 🎊
• Hello to our new Sinapic Acid Army members: intern Sofia will measure Klebsiella isolates on MALDI (normal and sinapic acid) and do DNA extraction, medical thesis student Dorian will create a sinapic acid based library for selected gram positive bacteria, medical thesis student Anna Sophia will test the sinapic acid MALDI method in an neonatal klebsiella outbreak setting. May your Chief Yuki lead you to success on the field! 
• Welcome back to our former intern Annalisa, who will now work part time in parallel to her studies, and PhD Elisa, who returns after a 6 months research stay in Melbourne, and former BSc thesis student Araney, now returning for the Sinaptic Acid Army too. 

We congratulate Elisa Sosa (PhD candidate) who is currently abroad for a research exchange at the University of Melbourne. She has won the best poster award at the annual Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Symposium with her research on the gut microbiome after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Excellent work Elisa!