Engel Philipp
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Philipp Engel carried out his doctoral research at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland, in the laboratory of Christoph Dehio. In Basel, he studied the bacterial pathogen Bartonella with a focus on Type IV secretion systems, host adaptation and bacterial genomics. He then moved to the USA to join the laboratory of Prof. Nancy Moran as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He worked on various aspects of the gut microbiota of honey bees, which included genomic and functional aspects aiming at the understanding of the symbiotic roles of the bee gut symbionts. During his time at Yale, Philipp also worked for four months in the Department of Chemistry with Prof. J. Crawford, to establish a collaboration on the studies of small molecules produced by the bee gut microbiota. In January 2014, Philipp moved back to Switzerland where he started his independent research at the University of Lausanne, continuing his work on the bee gut microbiota.
Research Interest
Genome biology and evolution. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology.
Publications
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Kešnerová L, Moritz R, Engel P. (2016). Bartonella apis sp. nov., a honey bee gut symbiont of the class Alphaproteobacteria. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. 2016 Jan 1;66(1):414-21.
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Harms A, Segers FH, Quebatte M, Mistl C, Manfredi P, et al., (2017). Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathoadaptation Revealed by Three Independent Acquisitions of the VirB/D4 Type IV Secretion System in Bartonella. Genome biology and evolution. 2017 Mar 1;9(3):761-76.
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Segers FH, Kešnerová L, Kosoy M, Engel P. (2017). Genomic changes associated with the evolutionary transition of an insect gut symbiont into a blood-borne pathogen. The ISME journal. 2017 May;11(5):1232.
