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).

February 05 2023

A warm welcome to Bouke Entvelsen and Davide Ciccarese who have joined our group this week! Bouke will work as junior scientist on a project to study community behaviour in real time with time-lapse microscopy. Davide is senior postdoc who will work on droplet sequencing methods. So happy to have you around!

February 05 2023

Congratulations to Andrea and Valentina for their amazing paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing the conjugative system of ICEclc! Wonderful and very hard work!

June 29 2022

Happy to say that after a lot of collaborative efforts, our work characterizing the transfer competence regulon of ICEclc was published in PLOS Genetics. Thank you, Sandra, Andrea, Roxane, Nico, Vladimir, François and Veronica! This was an amazing journey with lots of images, time-lapses, qqplots, RNAseq and clonings; and a fascinating discovery on the life of mobile DNAs.

March 31 2022

First publication within the NCCR Microbiomes studying how complex soil microbiomes can be grown in standardized soil systems, either from 21 individual soil isolates, or from washed natural topsoil communities. Great collaboration with Christian von Mering and Janko Tackmann at the University of Zürich.

March 31 2022

A happy welcome to the new Master students Omar Keshk, Phil Gwyther and Mathilde Buvelot; and to our Iranian visiting student Helia Vahedi!

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The team

Jan Roelof van der Meer

Group leader

Vladimir Sentchilo

Senior scientist

Nicolas Carraro

Senior Scientist

Andrea Daveri

PhD student

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

Helena Todorov

Postdoc

Valentina Benigno

PhD student

Sébastian Burz

Postdoc

Anthony Convers

PhD student

Bouke Bentvelsen

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

Characterization of an atypical but widespread type IV secretion system for transfer of the integrative and conjugative element (ICEclc) in Pseudomonas putida.

Daveri A, Benigno V, van der Meer JR.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Feb 2. 10.1093/nar/gkad024

A bistable prokaryotic differentiation system underlying development of conjugative transfer competence.

Sulser S, Vucicevic A, Bellini V, Moritz R, Delavat F, Sentchilo V, Carraro N, van der Meer JR.

PLoS Genet. 2022 Jun. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010286

Recent advances in microbial community analysis from machine learning of multiparametric flow cytometry data.

Özel Duygan BD, van der Meer JR.

Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2022 Jun. 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102688

Reproducible Propagation of Species-Rich Soil Bacterial Communities Suggests Robust Underlying Deterministic Principles of Community Formation.

Čaušević S, Tackmann J, Sentchilo V, von Mering C, van der Meer JR.

mSystems. 2022 Apr 26. 10.1128/msystems.00160-22

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Contact

  41-21-692 56 30/56 00

  janroelof.vandermeer (at] unil.ch

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