Melanie Blokesch
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Science
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Switzerland
Biography
Melanie Blokesch holds a PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology) she joined EPFL as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) in 2016. Among other awards and grants, Melanie Blokesch has been honored with the Prize for Junior Scientists of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, an ERC Starting Grant in 2012, the EPFL teaching award "Polysphère" for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences (academic year 2014-2015), the Research Award by the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM; Germany) in 2015, and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016. In 2017, Melanie Blokesch was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship.
Research Interest
To study how bacteria evolve in the environment to become human pathogens
Publications
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Blokesch M (2107)In and out—contribution of natural transformation to the shuffling of large genomic regions.in Current Opinion in Microbiology. 38: 22-29.
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Veening JW,Blokesch M (2017) Interbacterial predation as a strategy for DNA acquisition in naturally competent bacteria. Nature Reviews Microbiology.
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Rinaldo A, Bertuzzo E, Blokesch M, Mari L, Gatto M (2017) Modeling Key Drivers of Cholera Transmission Dynamics Provides New Perspectives for Parasitology. Trends in Parasitology 33: 587-599.
