Melanie Blokesch

EPFL SV GHI UPBLO
SV 3529 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

Web site:  Web site:  https://blokesch-lab.epfl.ch/

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Administrative data

Fields of expertise

Pathoecology & evolution of bacteria / horizontal gene transfer / regulatory circuits / inter-bacterial competitions / secretion system / phage & plasmid defense systems / host-pathogen interactions 









Professional course

Institute Director

Global Health Institute

School of Life Sciences - EPFL

2022-

Full Professor

Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology

School of Life Sciences - EPFL

2021-

Associate Professor

Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology

School of Life Sciences - EPFL

2016-2021

Tenure-track Assistant Professor

Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology (head: Prof. Dr. Melanie Blokesch)

School of Life Sciences - EPFL

2009-2016


Education

Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)

Microbiology

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

2004

Diplom Biologin Univ. (Dipl. Biol.)

Biology

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

2000

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Life Sciences Engineering

Contributing teacher to Landmark Papers in Cancer

Contributing teacher to doctoral course Landmark Papers in Cancer and Infection










Courses

Planetary health

This course provides an overview of global environmental change through the perspective of the planetary boundaries and examines how human health is interlinked with social and ecological contexts.

Practical - Blokesch Lab

How to look at tiny things: visualizing protein localization in bacteria using epifluorescence microscopy.