Jun 12, 2026 UNIL and online

Advances in NCCR Microbiomes – Understanding and Interventions

Join us online or in person on June 12th, 8:45 – 18:00, for the NCCR Microbiomes mid-way symposium.

The symposium will feature the farewell lecture of research consortium Director Professor Jan Roelof van der Meer, Head of the Environmental and Evolutionary Microbiology Lab, UNIL.

Conferences by:

  • Philipp Engel, UNIL
    The buzz about phages: shaping microbial diversity in the honeybee gut
  • Pascale Vonaesch, UNIL
    Engineering the microbiota for better child growth
  • Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zürich
    Gut, sweet home
  • Emma Slack, ETH Zürich
    Using the immune system to engineer microbiota
  • Claire Bertelli, CHUV
    Aging with our microbiota: a history of invisible links?
  • Shinichi Sunagawa, ETH Zürich
    A genome-resolved data framework for microbiome research
  • Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich
    The leaf microbiota: deconstruction and reconstitution to dissect plant–microbe interactions
  • Martin Ackermann, ETH Zürich & Eawag
    How individual cells build microbiomes
  • Sara Mitri, UNIL
    Making and breaking coexistence in synthetic microbial communities
  • Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPFL
    Microbiome adventures in systems and synthetic biology
  • Farewell lecture Jan Roelof van der Meer, UNIL
    Mens sana in ambiente sano – how microbes and microbiomes sustain our living environment

Check the programme above for the exact timing of the conferences. All indicated times are CEST.

Spaces are limited and registration for in person attendance is required: https://events.unil.ch/register/675