Hall, Alex
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
2015 Assistant Professor at ETH Zürich 2014 Junior Group Leader (SNSF Ambizione Fellow) at ETH Zürich 2012-14 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at ETH Zürich 2011 Postdoc at ETH Zürich with Martin Ackermann and Sebastian Bonhoeffer 2009-11 Postdoc at University of Oxford with Angus Buckling 
2005-09 PhD at University of Edinburgh with Nick Colegrave.
Research Interest
How the abiotic environment influences bacteria-virus interactions (with Pauline Scanlan), Resistance phenotypes of natural and clinical isolates of bacteria (with Richard Allen), Effect of dead cells on growth and evolution (with Fokko Smakman), Antibiotic resistance evolution in ecologically complex systems (with Flor Arias Sánchez) and Statistical methods for inferring coevolutionary dynamics (with Angus Buckling).
Publications
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Effects of antibiotic resistance alleles on bacterial evolutionary responses to viral parasites Flor I. Arias-Sánchez and Alex R. Hall Biology Letters, 12 (5): 20160064, London: The Royal Society, 2016.
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Modification of Escherichia coli-bacteriophage interactions by surfactants and antibiotics in vitro Pauline D. Scanlan, Anna M. Bischofberger and Alex R. Hall FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93 (1): fiw211, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Parasite genetic distance and local adaptation in co-evolving bacteria-bacteriophage populations Pauline D. Scanlan, Alex R. Hall and Angus Buckling Molecular Ecology, 26 (7): 1747-1755, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
