Publisher
NCCR Microbiomes

Editors
Eavan Dorcey
Robin Tecon
contact@nccr-microbiomes.ch

Design and programming
WIS17 Agency

Image description and credits

Homepage – Sliders

  • Mission: Fluorescent micrograph showing microbiota associated with plant roots. Courtesy of Christoph Keel.
  • Network: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing soil microbes from the Uetliberg, Zurich, Switzerland. Courtesy of Soil and Terrestrial Physics at ETH Zurich (Dani Or). 
  • News: Illustration of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virion (SARS-CoV-2). Credit: US Center of Disease Control, public domain.  

Homepage – Boxes

  • Research: photo pipet: Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash
  • Governance: photo courtesy of Manupryiam Dubey. 

About Us

  • Mission: top image courtesy of Yolanda Schaerli; bottom image courtesy of Julia Vorholt.
  • Organisation: Bead interaction studies. Courtesy of Manupryiam Dubey. 
  • Network: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing soil microbes microbes from the Uetliberg, Zurich, Switzerland. Courtesy of Soil and Terrestrial Physics at ETH Zurich (Dani Or).
  • Associated members: Interacting pseudomonas in a growing colony. Image courtesy of Manupryiam Dubey.
  • Open positions: Bacterial range expansion on agar plate. Image courtesy of Sara Mitri.

Research

  • Overview: Top image: Citrobacter rodentium (green) infecting the colon of a mouse (blue: DNA; grey: Actin) (ref). Courtesy of Siegfried Hapfelmeier. Bottom image: Fluorescent micrograph showing microbiota associated with plant roots. Courtesy of Christoph Keel.
  • WP1: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella Typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells. Credit: US National Institutes of Health, public domain.  
  • WP2: Confocal fluorescence microscopy images of mouse intestine tissues (blue: gut epithelium; red: SalmonellaTyphimurium in the lumen; green: cell nuclei and gut microbiota) (ref). Courtesy of Wolf-Dietrich Hardt. 
  • WP3: Wheat roots. Courtesy of Christoph Keel.
  • WP4: Microbial granules for wastewater treatment (ref). Courtesy of Christof Holliger.
  • WP5: Repressilator (ref). Courtesy of Yolanda Schaerli
  • WP6: E. coli growing in microfluidic chambers. Phenotypic variation among cells in a chamber (shown by fluorescent markers) arises due to glucose and acetate gradients (ref). Courtesy of Alma Dal Co, Simon van Vliet and Martin Ackermann

Education

  • Bacterial colonies on a Petri dish: courtesy of Yolanda Schaerli

Tech Transfer

  • CRISPRlator driven oscillations (ref). Courtesy of Yolanda Schaerli

Equal opportunities

  • E. coli strains–in yellow and purple–that grow together and exchange amino acids inside a microfluidic chamber (ref). Image segmented and color-coded for quantitative analysis. Courtesy of Alma Dal Co and Martin Ackermann.