BLOG
2024
May 01
Received the May 2024 cover of Genome Biology and Evolution:
Mutation rate and effective population size of the model cooperative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
March 25
Accepted manuscript at GBE:
Mutation rate and effective population size of the model cooperative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
2023
May 23
Published whole genome sequence of Myxophage Mx9 together with my colleague Bryan Julien in MRA
February 19
Meet our little sunshine Fridolin, the new member to our family:
2022
May 16-20
Poster presentation at "Microbial Ecology and Evolution" Meeting at Max Planck Institute, Plön (D)
March 30
Publication in PLOS Biology:
Research Article
March 17
Invited talk at Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée (IMM) in Marseille (F)
Host: Mireille Ansaldi Lab (LCB)
January 03-21
Successful student project with Jade Chartier (UA Grenoble) on myxophage induction
2024
March 26
Accepted manuscript at GBE:
Mutation rate and effective population size of the model cooperative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
2023
May 23
Published whole genome sequence of Myxophage Mx9 together with my colleague Bryan Julien in MRA
February 19
Meet our little sunshine Fridolin, the new member to our family:
2022
May 16-20
Poster presentation at "Microbial Ecology and Evolution" Meeting at Max Planck Institute, Plön (D)
March 30
Publication in PLOS Biology:
Research Article
March 17
Invited talk at Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée (IMM) in Marseille (F)
Host: Mireille Ansaldi Lab (LCB)
January 03-21
Successful student project with Jade Chartier (UA Grenoble) on myxophage induction
2021
December 23
Publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution:
When maths meets phytoplankton ecology
News View Article
July 23
Published preprint on bioRxiv (with lead author Omaya Dudin, and Aaron New & Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo):
Regulation of sedimentation rate shapes the evolution of multicellularity
July 01
Appointed as study adviser for the Major for Ecology & Evolution (MSc "Environmental Sciences")
Full member of the Teaching Commission at D-USYS, ETH Zurich
June 04
Attended online workshop:
PHROGATON on the bacteriophage annotation database PHROGS
-> organized by the French Bacteriophage Network (Réseau Bactériophage France)
May 01
Appointed as study advisor for Environmental Biology
(Bachelor specialisation "Environmental Biology" at D-USYS, ETH Zurich)
2020
July 01
Assigned as deputy delegate in the Departmental Teaching Commission at D-USYS, ETH Zurich
2020
2019
November 01
Tenured position as senior researcher
at Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) at D-USYS, ETH Zurich
July 06-12
Attended Gordon Research Seminar & Conference on "Microbial Population Biology",
in Andover, NH (USA)
June 05-07
Attended the D-USYS conference in Davos (CH)
January 02
Published an online book chapter on evolution experiments and beyond:
Evolution Underway in Prokaryotes [Link to chapter]