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
  • Roman Stocker, ETH Zürich
    The fascinating microscale world of marine microbes
  • 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.

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

The symposum and farewell lecture can be followed online, no registration required: https://rec.unil.ch/channels/#advances-in-nccr-microbiomes-understanding-and-interventions