Wanqi Huang
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Wanqi investigates the potential of phages as antibacterial agents against multi-drug-resistant bacteria. To achieve this, she employs both culture-dependent and independent methods.
Kawtar Tiamani
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Kawtar's research focuses on studying the role of phages in reprogramming bacterial physiology and investigating the antibacterial potential of phage ORFans. To achieve this, Kawtar employs culture-independent methods such as viral tagging and single-cell techniques.
Xue Peng
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Xue Peng's research focuses on investigating the interactions between phages and bacteria in the human body using computational tools. She is particularly interested in developing new computational tools for virome studies.
Adrian Thaqi
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Adrian's research focuses on exploring the functional role of prophages in bacteria. Utilizing various molecular biological techniques, he investigates both the impact of prophages as a whole and the function of so far uncharacterized hypothetical proteins within these prophage regions.
Sónia Campos
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Sónia's research focuses on synthetically engineering phages for well-defined phage cocktail assembly, applying single-cell analysis for phage gene function, and establishing a correlation between the viral community and asthma etiology.
Julia Ammann
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Julia's research focuses on developing targeted approaches for manipulating the human microbiome. For this, she uses culture independent methods such as viral tagging, simplified microbial consortiums and bioreactors.
Joshua Hadi
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Josh's research is aimed at developing novel phage-based therapeutics against intra- and extraintestinal pathogens.
Abdullah Sayed
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Sayed Abdullah’s research focuses on developing novel phage-based therapeutics against multi-drug-resistant pathogens using methods provided by synthetic biology, including genome and protein engineering.
Alexandra Valeanu
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Alexandra’s research focuses on the computational study of virome-microbiome interactions within the human body and their potential implications for therapy.
Cunli Pan
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Cunli´s projects focus on deciphering the role of bacteriophages in natural carbon circulation, developing viral-tagging-based phage isolation and identification techniques for anaerobic bacteria, and exploring the possible implications of phage therapy in the poultry industry. She aims to investigate the efficacy of phage therapy in infectious disease prevention and its impact on the animal gut microbiome and health.
Alumni
Magdalena Unterer
Sophie Elizabeth Smith
Shiqi Lu
Tianli Ma
Judith Feichtmayer