Fellows

Welcome to our EAM Fellows page! Below you will find a full list of our EAM Fellows.

name Subject Area / Affiliation (country)
Chantal ABERGEL Environmental Virology, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics / Aix-Marseille University (France)
Martin ACKERMANN Molecular Microbial Ecology / ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Ruedi AEBERSOLD Molecular Systems Biology / ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Sonja Verena ALBERS (@Archaellum) Molecular Biology of Archaea / University of Freiburg (Germany)
Jeff ALMOND Vaccinology / University of Oxford (England)
Shoshy, ALTUVIA Microbiology and Molecular Genetics / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Rudolf AMANN Molecular Ecology / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Dan I. ANDERSSON Bacterial Genetics & Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance / Uppsala University (Sweden)
Siv G. E. ANDERSSON Cell and Molecular Biology / Uppsala University (Sweden)
Irini, ANGELIDAKI Bioresource Technologies / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Judy ARMITAGE (@Armitage_Judi) Department of Biochemistry / University of Oxford (England)
Cecilia ARRAIANO (@ArraianoLab) Control of Gene Expression, RNA, Synthetic Biology / NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)
Nathalie Q. BALABAN Lab of Self-Replicating Matter / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Petr BALDRIAN Environmental Microbiology / The Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Dennis H. BAMFORD Molecular Virology / University of Helsinki (Finland)
Fernando BAQUERO Microbial Evolutionary Biology & Antibiotic Resistance / Ramón y Cajal Institute for Research in Biomedicine IRYCIS (Spain)
Frédéric BARRAS (@FredBarras) Stress Adaptation and Metabolism in Enterobacteria / Pasteur Institute (France)
Ralf BARTENSCHLAGER Molecular Virology / University Hospital Heidelberg (Germany)
Marek BASLER (@Basler_Lab) Bacterial Virulence and T6SS / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Edward BAYER The Cellulosome Complex Lab / The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Dörte BECHER Microbial Proteomics / University of Greifswald (Germany)
Oded BEJA (@BejaLab) Environmental Genomics of Marine Microbes / Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Sigal BEN-YEHUDA (@sigalby) Social Microbiology, Bacterial Sporulation / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Aude, BERNHEIM Microbiology and Genetics / Pasteur Institute (France)
Mervyn BIBB Molecular Microbiology / John Innes Centre (England)
Oliver BILLKER Molecular Infection Medicine / Umeå University (Sweden)
Melanie BLOKESCH (@MBlokesch) Molecular Microbiology / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
Antje BOETIUS Deep Sea Ecology and Technology / Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany)
Elizaveta BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA Diversity & Ecology of Thermophiles / Moscow University (Russia)
Axel BRAKHAGE Molecular Biotechnology and Fungal Biology / HKI and Leibniz Institute (Germany)
Erhard BREMER Molecular Microbiology / Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
Roland BROSCH Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics / Pasteur Institute (France)
Harald BRUSSOW Clinical Microbiology and Virology / Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Carmen BUCHRIESER (@cbuch2) Biology of Intracellular Bacteria / Pasteur Institute (France)
Dirk BUMANN Metabolism of Bacterial Pathogens / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Stephen BUSBY (@busbysjw) Microbiology and Infection / University of Birmingham (England)
Gabriella CAMPADELLI-FIUME Virology of Herpes / University of Bologna (Italy)
Emmanuelle CHARPENTIER (@manue_lab) Infection Biology / Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (Germany)
Ilan CHET Plant Pathology and Microbiology / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Stewart T. COLE Microbial Pathogenesis / Pasteur Institute (France)
Jean-François COLLET Bacterial Stress Responses / Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Guy CORNELIS Bacterial Pathogenesis / University of Namur (Belgium)
Pascale COSSART Bacteria-Cell Interactions / Pasteur Institute (France)
Patrice COURVALIN Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance / Pasteur Institute (France)
Antoine DANCHIN Bacterial Genomics / Stellate Therapeutics, Institute Cochin (France)
Isabel DELANY Molecular Biology and Bacteriology / GSK (Italy)
Victor DE LORENZO (@vdlorenzo_CNB) Molecular Environmental Microbiology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain)
Willem M. DE VOS Microbial Ecology, Physiology & Genetics / Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Christoph DEHIO Bacterial Pathogenesis / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Petra DERSCH (@pdersch) Microbial Pathogenesis and Infection Biology of Intestinal Pathogens / University of Münster (Germany)
Ulrich DOBRINDT Microbial Genome Plasticity / University of Münster (Germany)
Charles J. DORMAN Bacterial Gene Regulation / Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Nicole DUBILIER (@Chemosym) Microbial Symbioses / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Leo EBERL (@leberl2) Plant and Microbial Biology / University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Monika EHLING-SCHULZ University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Germany)
Dusko EHRLICH (@SDEhrlich) Human Microbiome / Metagenopolis, INRAE (France)
Martin EMBLEY Evolutionary Molecular Biology / Newcastle University (England)
Tobias ERB (@erblabs) Metabolic Engineering, Microbial Biochemistry & Physiology / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Jeff ERRINGTON Bacterial Cell Biology / University of Sydney (Australia)
Alain FILLOUX (@FillouxLab) Bacterial Pathogenesis & Molecular Bacteriology/ Imperial College London (England)
Patrick FORTERRE (@PatrickForterre) Molecular Biology of Gene in Extremophiles / Pasteur Institute (France)
Kevin FOSTER Evolutionary Biology / University of Oxford (England)
Bärbel FRIEDRICH Bacterial Metabolism / Humboldt University (Germany)
Geoff GADD (@GeoMBiol) Geomicrobiology, Mycology, Environmental Biotechnology / University of Dundee (Scotland)
Francisco GARCIADEL PORTILLO Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens / Centro Nacional de Biotecnología -CSIC (Spain)
Mikhail S. GELFAND Bioinformatics / Russian Academy of Science (Russia)
Kenn GERDES Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence / University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Jean-Marc GHIGO Genetics of Biofilms / Pasteur Institute (France)
Philippe GLASER Ecology and Evolution of Antibiotics Resistance / Pasteur Institute (France)
Anne GLOVER (@AnneGlover_EU) Molecular Microbiology / Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Werner GOEBEL Bacterial Pathogenicity / University of Würzburg (Germany)
Friedrich GÖTZ Microbial Genetics / University of Tübingen (Germany)
Uri GOPHNA (@ugophna) Microbial Evolution and Microbiome / Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Isabel GORDO (@gordoisabel1) Evolutionary Genetics of Bacteria / Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal)
Lone GRAM Bacterial Eco-Physiology And Biotechnology / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Simonetta GRIBALDO Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Institut Pasteur (France)
Angelika GRÜNDLING Cell-Wall Biogenesis of Bacterial Pathogens / Imperial College London (England)
Jörg HACKER Molecular Infection Biology / German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany)
Otto HALLER Virology / University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)
Wolf-Dietrich HARDT Salmonella Pathogenesis / ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Ian HEAD Synthetic Biology and Bioeconomy / Newcastle University (England)
Michael HECKER Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology / University of Greifswald (Germany) – retired
Jürgen HEESEMANN Medical Microbiology / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
Franz X. HEINZ Virology / Medical University of Vienna (Austria)
Regine HENNGE Bacterial Biofilms and Stress Response / Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
Anat A. HERSKOVITS Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Birgitta HENRIQUES-NORMARK (@BHN_Lab) Clinical Microbiology / Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Jay HINTON (@jay_salsa) Functional and Comparative Genomics / University of Liverpool (England)
Niels HØIBY Bacteriology / University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
David HOLDEN Bacteriology & Infection / Imperial College London (England)
David HOPWOOD Microbial Natural Products / John Innes Centre (England)
Angela IVASK Microbial Genetics / University of Tartu (Estonia)
Urs JENAL (@urs_jenal) Signaling in Bacterial Infection / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Mike JETTEN (@msmjetten) Environmental Biotechnology / Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Stipan JONJIC Viral Immunology / University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Bo Barker JØRGENSEN Geomicrobiology and Marine Microbial Ecology / Aarhus University (Denmark)
Regine KAHMANN Molecular Phytopathology / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Anna KARNKOWSKA Eukaryotic Microbiology / University of Warsaw (Poland)
Roy KISHONY (@RoyKishony) Antibiotic Resistance / Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Maia KIVISAAR Bacterial Genetics and Evolution / University of Tartu (Estonia)
Boris KLEMPA Virology / Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)
Éva KONDOROSI Symbiosis and Molecular Ecology / Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Hans-Georg KRÄUSSLICH Virology / University Hospital Heidelberg (Germany)
Oscar P. KUIPERS (@OscarKuipers1) Molecular Genetics, Host-Microbe Interactions, Protein Engineering / University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Marcel KUYPERS Biogeochemistry / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Rob LAVIGNE Gene Technology / KU Leuven (Belgium)
Sarah LEBEER Microbiologist & Bioengineer / University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Marc LECUIT Infection / Institut Pasteur (France)
Hilary LAPPIN-SCOTT (@lappinscott) Microbial Biofilms / Cardiff University (Wales)
Iñigo LASA UZCUDUN (@lasa_lab) Microbial Pathogenesis and Biofilms / Navarrabiomed Biomedical Research Center (Spain)
Bruno LEMAÎTRE Insect Immunity, Insect Endosymbionts and Entomopathogens / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
Ruth LEY (@RuthLeyMicro) Microbiome Science / MPI for Developmental Biology (Germany)
Daniel LOPEZ (@lopesrra) Molecular Infection Biology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain)
Julius LUKEŠ Parasitology and Molecular Biology of Protists / Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Ines MANDIC-MULEC Environmental Microbiology / University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Didier MAZEL (@amazeld) Bacterial Genome Plasticity / Pasteur Institute (France)
Thomas MEYER Bacterial Infection and Human Carcinogenesis / MPI for Infection Biology (Germany)
Tâm MIGNOT Bacterial Development and Cell Biology / CNRS-Aix Marseille University (France)
Itzhak MIZRAHI Microbiome / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Francisco J. M. MOJICA CRISPR / University of Alicante (Spain)
Soren MOLIN Microbial Biofilms / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Cesare MONTECUCCO Bacterial Neurotoxins, Tetanus & Botulism / University of Padua (Italy)
Colin MURRELL Environmental Microbiology / University of East Anglia (England)
Franz NARBERHAUS (@FranzNarberhaus) Molecular Microbiology / Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
Staffan NORMARK Microbial Pathogenicity / Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Thomas NYSTRÖM Cellular Aging and Protein Quality Control / University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Fergal O’GARA Microbe-Host Interactions / University College Cork (Ireland)
Juan ORTÍN Virology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain) – retired
Albert OSTERHAUS (@AbOsterhaus) Veterinary Virology / University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany)
Paul O’TOOLE

Microbial Genomics /University College Cork (Ireland)

Jörg OVERMANN Microbial Ecology, Diversity & Systematics / DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig (Germany)
Csaba PAL Systems Biology and Microbial Evolution / Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Tracy PALMER (@proftracypalmer) Protein Transport & Secretion, Membrane Proteins & Bacterial Cell Envelope / Newcastle University (England)
Julian PARKHILL Microbial Genomics / University of Cambridge (England)
Vladimir PELICIC Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens / CNRS Aix-Marseille University (France)
José PENADES Molecular Basis of Bacterial Virulence / Imperial College London (England)
Inês Cardoso PEREIRA Bacterial Energy Metabolism / Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Andreas PESCHEL Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / University of Tübingen (Germany)
Jean-Claude PIFFARETTI Medical Microbiology / Interlifescience (Switzerland)
Mariana Gomes de PINHO Bacterial Cell Biology / NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)
Mariagrazia PIZZA Bacterial Vaccines, Bacterial Pathogenesis / GSK Vaccines (Italy)
Pavel PLEVKA Structural Virology / Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
György POSFAI Microbial Genome Engineering / Biological Research Center (Hungary)
David PRANGISHVILI Viruses of Archaea / Pasteur Institute (France)
Anthony PUGSLEY Protein Secretion and Membrane Protein Assembly / Pasteur Institute (France) – retired
Miroslav RADMAN (@MRGentilly) Molecular Biology / Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (Croatia) – retired
Paul RAINEY Microbial Population Biology / MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Germany)
Juan Luis RAMOS Industrial Biotechnology, Gene Regulation & Environmental Microbiology / Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Alexander RAPOPORT Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / University of Latvia (Latvia)
Rino RAPPUOLI Vaccinology / GSK Vaccines (Italy)
Félix A. REY Structural Virology / Pasteur Institute (France)
Giovanna RICCARDI Tuberculosis Research / University of Pavia (Italy)
Ute RÖMLING Multicellular Behavior in Microorganisms, Cyclic di-nucleotide signaling, Pseudomonas aeruginosa persistence / Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Eliora RON Bacterial Virulence & Regulation of Gene Expression / Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Eugene ROSENBERG Myxobacteria and Environmental Microbiology / Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Ramon ROSSELLÓ-MÓRA (@ramonibus) Taxonomy and Molecular Microbial Ecology / Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Thomas RUDEL Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / University of Würzburg (Germany)
Maja RUPNIK National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food (Germany)
George SALMOND Genomics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology / University of Cambridge (UK)
Philippe SANSONETTI Bacterial Pathogenesis and Microbiota / Pasteur Institute (France)
Bernhard SCHINK Microbial Ecology and Limnology / University of Konstanz (Germany)
Karl-Heinz SCHLEIFER Taxonomy and Microbial Ecology / Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Christa SCHLEPER (@Archaea_Vienna) Archaea Ecology and Evolution Group / University of Vienna (Austria)
Peter SEBO Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens / Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Victoria SHINGLER Bacterial Signal-Sensing and Integration / Umeå University (Sweden)
Andriy SIBIRNY Yeast Biotechnology / National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
Virginijus ŠIKŠNYS Protein-DNA Interactions and CRISPR / Vilnius University (Lithuania)
John J. SKEHEL Virology / Francis Crick Institute (England)
Geoffrey L. SMITH Virology / University of Cambridge (England)
Lotte SOGAARD-ANDERSEN Bacterial Development and Differentiation / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Dominique SOLDATI-FAVRE Biology of Obligate Intracellular Parasites / University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Rotem SOREK (@SorekLab) Microbial Genomics / Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Victor SOURJIK Microbial Networks / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Nicola STANLEY-WALL (@bacteriacities) Bacterial Biofilms / University of Dundee (Scotland)
Bärbel STECHER  Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / LMU Munich (Germany)
Noam STERN-GINOSSAR Virology / The Weizmann Institute of Scienc (Israel)
Marc STROUS (@marc_strous) Microbial Ecology and Energy Bioengineering / University of Calgary (Canada)
Sebastian SUERBAUM (@SuerbaumS) Medical Microbiology / Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany)
Rudolf K. THAUER Biochemistry of Anaerobic Microorganisms / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Kenneth N. TIMMIS (@KennethTimmis) Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology / Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Tone TØNJUM (@tonetonjum) Genome Dynamics and Microbial Pathogenesis / University of Oslo (Norway)
Athanassios TSAKRIS (@ATsakris) Virology and Immunology / University of Athens (Greece)
Athanasios TYPAS Systems Microbiology / EMBL Heidelberg (Germany)
Bernt Eric UHLIN Bacteria-Host Interactions / Umeå University (Sweden)
Gisou F. VAN DER GOOT (@gvdgoot) Cell and Membrane Biology / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
Jan Roelof VAN DER MEER Environmental & Evolutionary Microbiology, Microbiome Studies / University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Jan-Willem VEENING Genomics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology / University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Antonio VENTOSA Extremophilic Microorganisms / University of Sevilla (Spain)
Miguel VICENTE Bacterial Cell Cycle / National Center for Biotechnology CSIC (Spain)
Jörg VOGEL RNA Biology / Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (Germany)
Waldemar VOLLMER Bacterial Cell Wall / Newcastle University (England)
Julia VORHOLT Microbial Physiology, Microbial Biochemistry, Plant Microbiomes / ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Michael WAGNER (@MichiWagner4) Microbial Ecology / University of Vienna (Austria)
Sun Nyunt WAI Medical Microbial Pathogenesis / Umeå University (Sweden)
Robin A. WEISS Viral Oncology / University College London (England)
Friedrich WIDDEL Anaerobic Aquatic Bacteria / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany) – retired
Paul WILLIAMS Molecular Microbiology / University of Nottingham (England)
Karina XAVIER (@KarinaXavierLab) Bacterial Signal Transduction, Quorum Sensing, Bacterial-Host Interactions, Microbiota / Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal)
Arturo ZYCHLINSKY Cellular Microbiology / MPI for Infection Biology (Germany)

 

Former EAM Fellows

  • Milton S. DA COSTA, Microbiology of Extreme Environments / University of Coimbra (Portugal)
  • Margarita SALAS, Madrid
  • Agnes ULLMANN
  • Hans-Dieter KLENK 
  • Josep CASADESÚS, Bacterial Genetics / University of Seville (Spain)
  • César NOMBELA, Molecular Microbiology and Bioethics / Menéndez Pelayo International University (Spain)
EAM Fellows Book

Download our EAM fellows book published in 2021 which features the most current research and some general information about our Fellows.