EEM-Lab

Environmental and Evolutionary Microbiology Group @eem_lab
Prof. Jan Roelof van der Meer
Department of Fundamental Microbiology / University of Lausanne
Environmental and Evolutionary Microbiology

My primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade human wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, I am very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters, bioremediation, microbiome engineering).

March 22 2024

Congratulations to Senka, Manupriyam and Marian, with help of Vladimir and Nico, for their combined forces to show the role of nutrient niche availability and metabolite facilitation that control proliferation of bacterial inoculants into (contaminated) soils! A special thanks to Guillem, Hans and Shini for collaborating on the metatranscriptomics analysis. A milestone for our lab! See the new Nature Communications publication here (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-024-46933-1)

March 13 2024

November 13 2023

We're very happy that our concerted review on microbiome engineering, collectively written by members of the NCCR Microbiomes, has now been published. We hope this will be widely interesting for researchers in the field!

Ahead of print: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mmbr.00063-23

 

November 10 2023

Congratulations to Valentina and Nico, in collaboration with CHUV researchers, for their publication on evolution and diversity of integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.

September 19 2023

Congratulations to Tania for winning this year's FameLab public outreach prize!
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The team

Jan Roelof van der Meer

Group leader

Vladimir Sentchilo

Senior scientist

Roxane Moritz

PhD Student

Senka Causevic

PhD student

Maxime Batsch

PhD Student

Gaïtan Géhin

PhD student shared with Jasqueline Peña

Isaline Guex

PhD student shared with Christian Mazza

Tania Miguel Trabajo

PhD student

Valentina Benigno

PhD student

Sébastian Burz

Postdoc

Anthony Convers

PhD student

Bouke Bentvelsen

Junior Scientist

Davide Ciccarese

Postdoc

Clara Bailey

Visiting PhD student

Phil Gwyther

Junior Scientist
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Jan Roelof van der Meer

See Jan van der Meer live at the 'Night of the Microbes' of the ISME meeting 2018.

iBiology.org Lecture: Jan van der Meer's video talk called

Synthetic Biology: Principles and Applications is available on iBiology.org at https://www.ibiology.org/bioengineering/introduction-to-synthetic-biology/

 

Latest publications

Niche availability and competitive loss by facilitation control proliferation of bacterial strains intended for soil microbiome interventions.

Čaušević S, Dubey M, Morales M, Salazar G, Sentchilo V, Carraro N, Ruscheweyh HJ, Sunagawa S, van der Meer JR.

Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 22. 10.1038/s41467-024-46933-1

From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time.

Burz SD, Causevic S, Dal Co A, Dmitrijeva M, Engel P, Garrido-Sanz D, Greub G, Hapfelmeier S, Hardt W-D, Hatzimanikatis V, Heiman CM, Herzog MK-M, Hockenberry A, Keel C, Keppler A, Lee S-J, Luneau J, Malfertheiner L, Mitri S, Ngyuen B, Oftadeh O, Pacheco AR, Peaudecerf F, Resch G, Ruscheweyh H-J, Sahin A, Sanders IR, Slack E, Sunagawa S, Tackmann J, Tecon R, Ugolini GS, Vacheron J, van der Meer JR, Vayena E, Vonaesch P, Vorholt JA.

Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2023 Dec 20. 10.1128/mmbr.00063-23

Diversity and evolution of an abundant ICEclc family of integrative and conjugative elements in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Benigno V, Carraro N, Sarton-Lohéac G, Romano-Bertrand S, Blanc DS, van der Meer JR.

mSphere. 2023 Dec 20. 10.1128/msphere.00517-23

Changes in structure and assembly of a species-rich soil natural community with contrasting nutrient availability upon establishment of a plant-beneficial Pseudomonas in the wheat rhizosphere.

Garrido-Sanz D, Čaušević S, Vacheron J, Heiman CM, Sentchilo V, van der Meer JR, Keel C.

Microbiome. 2023 Sep 29. 10.1186/s40168-023-01660-5

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Contact

  41-21-692 56 30/56 00

  janroelof.vandermeer (at] unil.ch

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