EEM-Lab

Environmental and Evolutionary Microbiology Group
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).

October 16 2019

We are happy to welcome Cédric Schneider, who is joing our lab for his civil service, working on biosensor development,

and to Samuel Aubert, first step Master student in Biology, who is working on the conjugative system of ICEclc.

September 19 2019

Congratulations to Roxane and François for their beautiful work showing how ICEclc is replicated in individual cells preparing for conjugative transfer. 

Reference: Delavat, F., Moritz, R. and J. R. van der Meer. (2019) Transient replication in specialized cells favors transfer of an integrative and conjugative element. mBio 10(3): e01133-19

https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/3/e01133-19

January 29 2019

This is the last week for Maxime, finishing his Master's project on the design and engineering of phenol-responsive ribose-binding protein mutants, and for Nora, who helped Birge on the lake water  communities project. Thank you so much, both of you, for the wonderful time and your endless energy! We will miss you. All the best for your future studies and careers.

Welcome to Andrea, our new PhD student working on the ICE project

and to Senka and Caroline, two new master students, who will start their projects mid-February.

 

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The team

Jan Roelof van der Meer

Group leader

Nicolas Carraro

Postdoc

Andrea Daveri

PhD student

Manupriyam Dubey

PhD Student

Marian Morales

PhD Student

Roxane Moritz

PhD Student

Birge Özel Duygan

PhD Student

Xavier Richard

shared PhD student with Christian Mazza

Vladimir Sentchilo

Senior scientist

Diogo Tavares

PhD student

Andrea Vucicevic

PhD student

Senka Causevic

Master student

Caroline Gaille

Master student

Samuel Aubert

First-step master student
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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

Transient Replication in Specialized Cells Favors Transfer of an Integrative and Conjugative Element.

Delavat F, Moritz R, van der Meer JR.

MBio. 2019 Jun 11. 10.1128/mBio.01133-19

The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society.

Timmis K, Cavicchioli R, Garcia JL, Nogales B, Chavarría M, Stein L, McGenity TJ, Webster N, Singh BK, Handelsman J, de Lorenzo V, Pruzzo C, Timmis J, Martín JLR, Verstraete W, Jetten M, Danchin A, Huang W, Gilbert J, Lal R, Santos H, Lee SY, Sessitsch A, Bonfante P, Gram L, Lin RTP, Ron E, Karahan ZC, van der Meer JR, Artunkal S, Jahn D, Harper L.

Environ Microbiol. 2019 May. 10.1111/1462-2920.14611

Genomic changes underlying host specialization in the bee gut symbiont Lactobacillus Firm5.

Ellegaard KM, Brochet S, Bonilla-Rosso G, Emery O, Glover N, Hadadi N, Jaron KS, van der Meer JR, Robinson-Rechavi M, Sentchilo V, Tagini F, SAGE class 2016-17., Engel P.

Mol Ecol. 2019 May. 10.1111/mec.15075

Probing chemotaxis activity in Escherichia coli using fluorescent protein fusions.

Roggo C, Carraro N, van der Meer JR.

Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 7. 10.1038/s41598-019-40655-x

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Contact

  41-21-692 56 30/56 00

  janroelof.vandermeer (at] unil.ch