applied microbiology research lab

Alumni

• Desirée Fischli: Laboratory Research Assistant
• Priya Salik: Master Student
• Thivya Punniyamoorthy: Bachelor’s Student
• Helena Seth-Smith: Senior Bioinformatician and Deputy research group leader
• Tim Roloff: Senior Bioinformatician
• Vanni Benvenga: Junior Bioinformatician
• Elena Melgarejo Ros: Research Assistant
• Marco Meola: Academic Associate
• Karina Büttner: Visiting PhD from Argentina
• Karl Weinheimer: Intern
• Viviane Tinner: Intern
• Christina Fäh: Laboratory Technician
• Aline Cuénod: PhD Student and Postdoctoral scientist
• Veronika Muigg: Clinical Microbiologist FAMH Trainee
• Laurent Stöger: Internship
• Denise Wälchli: Bachelor’s Student
• Stefanie Heller: Laboratory Research Assistant
• Michèle Leemann: Master student
• Kirstine Kobberøe Søgaard: MD, PhD Specialist Registrar in clinical microbiology
• Giovanni Ghielmetti: DVM Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist
• Jessica Agnetti: Master student (medical faculty)
• Marius Müller: Master student (medical faculty)
• Elisa Roth: MD thesis student (medical faculty)
• Lucas Romann: Master student (medical faculty)
• Chantal Ott: MD thesis student (medical faculty)
• Dr. Alfredo Mari: post-doctoral fellow
• Michael Schweitzer: MSc thesis
• Myrta Brunner: Student Research Assistant
• Dr. Madlen Stange: Bioinformatician
• Danica Nogarth: Lab technician
• Dr. Janina Linnik: PhD student
• Ann-Kathrin Schlotterbeck: Internship
• Dr. Mohammedyaseen Syedbasha: PhD student and post-doctoral fellow
• Alexander Gensch: Observership
• Chantal Ott: Master student (medical faculty)
• Lukas Boos: Master student (medical faculty)
• Josiane Reist: Laboratory Research Assistant
• Daniela Lang: Laboratory Research Assistant
• Olivia Grüninger: Laboratory Research Assistant
• Dr. Daniel Wüthrich: post-doctoral fellow
• Dr. Ferdinando Bonfiglio: post-doctoral fellow
• Dr. Christian Gehringer: MD, post-doctoral fellow
• Julia Hartmann: MSc thesis
• Yvonne Hollenstein: MD thesis
• Christina Homberger: MSc thesis
• Lukas Kaufmann: MSc thesis
• Laura Maurer Pekerman, study nurse
• Dr. Dominik Meinel: post-doctoral fellow
• Kathrin Ullrich: study nurse
• Madeleine Vollmer: MSc research technician
• Dominik Vogt, MSc: MSc research technician

The Applied Microbiology Research Group was founded in September 2014.

We moved from the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel to the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, in August 2022.

Conferences:

• Aug 2021: One Health Meets Sequencing 2.0
• Jan 2020: Digital ID 2020
• May 2019: One Health Meets Sequencing
• January-February 2019: Mikroben Unter Uns
• September 2017: Next generation sequencing for clinical microbiology: Translation into routine applications" Symposium
• April 2017: ESCMID capacity forming workshop on MALDI-TOF MS in clinical microbiology

Retreats: 

• June 2024: Walensee
• June 2023: Kandersteg
• June 2022: Engelberg
• August 2021: Creux du van
• July 2019: Europapark
• October 2018: Pilatus
• February 2018: St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
• April 2017: Bern

Applied Microbiology Research

Institute of Medical Microbiology

University of Zurich

Gloriastrasse 28/30, 8006 Zurich

Principal Investigator: Adrian Egli, Prof. MD PhD
Phone lab: +41 44 634 27 00
Email: info@appliedmicrobiologyresearch.net