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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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


Awards

2022 : Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology : American Academy of Microbiology (AAM)

2018 : Elected Member of the European Academy of Microbiology : European Academy of Microbiology

2016 : ERC Consolidator Grant : European Research Council

2016 : Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholarship : Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

2015 : Polysphère teaching award : AGEPoly

2015 : Research Award : Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)

2012 : ERC Starting Grant : European Research Council

2012 : Teaching award SV : Teaching Section School of Life Sciences

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Life Sciences Engineering

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.