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Zürich, Switzerland
Joined July 2012
Jörn Piel honoured with prestigious European medical award! More at Bluesky bsky.app/profile/eth-microbi…
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Julia Vorholt wins the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize for her groundbreaking research on plant microbiomes! More on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/eth-dbiol.b…
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A study by the Hardt lab, with the Sauer and von Mering labs, shows that sugars are abundant in the gut and drive Salmonella Typhimurium expansion across murine models. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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A recent study by the Hardt lab at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the von Mering and Vorholt lab demonstrates that host neutrophils predispose Salmonella Typhimurium elimination by commensal E. coli. 👉sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Thrilled to finally share! The plant microbiota triggers dose-dependent immune responses that feed back to influence bacterial colonization. This affects non-pathogenic and pathogenic strains, impacting microbiota homeostasis. Out today in @NaturePlants: doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-0…
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Post-translational modifications confer important functions on peptides and proteins. The Piel lab @ETH_en Zurich and collaborators discovered a new modification resulting in complex, steroid-like amino acids. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-eve…
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Metabolic plasticity of STm Hardt lab @Microbio_ETH reveals metabolic adaptations of #Salmonella Typhimurium to changes during infection, i.e. diversification of mixed-acid fermentation & use of partial TCA cycle in response to redox & nutritional changes cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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Metabolic plasticity of STm Hardt lab @Microbio_ETH reveals metabolic adaptations of #Salmonella Typhimurium to changes during infection, i.e. diversification of mixed-acid fermentation & use of partial TCA cycle in response to redox & nutritional changes cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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The recent Wolfsberg Meeting of the Swiss PhD students in immunology was again a big success! 70 PhD students in immunology and 7 professors from different Swiss Universities made it an inspiring meeting of high scientific quality 👉 micro.biol.ethz.ch/events/wo…
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🦠📷 OUT NOW! Non-canonical start codons in carbohydrate utilisation operons provide context-dependent advantages for commensal E. coli by Yassine Cherrak, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt and colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Are you a school class curious about our biology research and teaching at ETH? Come visit us! Recently, students from Stiftsschule Einsiedeln got an inside look at cutting-edge cancer research, our biology program and the Hönggerberg campus. #FutureScientists #ScienceEducation
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Huge congratulations to Julia Vorholt on her election to the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences !! nasonline.org/news-and-multi…
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