Translation Team
English is the universal language of science, yet to make a broader impact a local language is often more effective. We recruited a Team of volunteers speaking collectively more than 14 languages. Being all active scientists, they will make sure that no microbiology content will be ‘‘lost in translation’’!
Example of material interesting to be translated into further languages is abstracts of papers, Wikipedia pages, blog entries, or video interviews with renowned microbiologists, and much more. Our volunteers in the Translation Team are thus able with their unique subject expertise and language skills to contribute to increasing literacy and education in microbiology through targeted outreaches.
If you want to contribute to the Team, either with regular contributions or with ad hoc tasks, or wish to get more information about the project, feel free to contact the Project Manager.
Project Manager
Corrado Nai
Languages: Italian, German, Spanish, rusty French, a bit of Dutch
Short bio: Corrado is coordinating the Translation Team. Coming from a multilingual country himself, he knows that a unique language is not always the best solution for effective communication. When still active in the lab, he often caught himself using English words when explaining his project in his own mother language. He is excited to work together with motivated volunteers wishing to contribute to this outreach initiative.
Get in touch with him at corrado.nai “at” fems-microbiology.org
Volunteers
Alejandro Tejada
Languages: Spanish
Short bio: Alejandro obtained his BSc and Msc in Spain, the PhD in Paris and he is currently postdoctoral researcher in Switzerland.
Link to personal page: Alejandro Tejada
Anaïs Biclot
Languages: French
Short bio: Anaïs is doing her PhD at the KULeuven in Belgium studying the gut microbiota.
Link to personal page: Anaïs Biclot
Carolin Kobras
Languages: German
Short bio: Carolin obtained her BSc and MSc Biology degrees at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, before she completed her PhD studies in the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath.
Link to personal page: Carolin Kobras
Madalina-Maria Vita
Languages: Romanian, Italian
Short bio: Madalina is doing her PhD at Utrecht University ( The Netherlands), where she studies nutrient flows and food-webs in compost as part of a multidisciplinary and applied project.
Link to personal page: Madalina-Maria Vita
Maria Bonatelli
Languages: Portuguese
Short bio: Maria is a Biologist from Brazil and she did her Master and PhD degrees at University of São Paulo/ Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Usp/Esalq).
Link to personal page: Maria Bonatelli
Vojtech Tláskal
Languages: Czech
Short bio: He is located in Prague, Czech Republic and focuses on describing microbial functioning by molecular approaches.
Link to personal page: Vojtech Tláskal
Yaqin Guo
Languages: Chinese
Short bio: Yaqin is a microbial ecology PhD student at the university of Hohenheim (Germany). She focuses on plant-microbial interactions, in particular on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their investigation to improve ecological restoration and soil health. She also studies the ecotoxicity of pollutants (e.g. mercury) on microbial communities and functions.
Link to personal page: Yaqin Guo
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Past volunteers
Jelena Spasic
FEMS Microbes is excited to present its latest thematic issue, focusing on bacterial-viral co-infections. Host and microbial factors are critically important for influencing the severity and outcome of infection. Interactions between microbes is an understudied yet important aspect to this process.
