News

Good news everyone! N. Bokulich has been awarded the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award (https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/) in recognition of exceptional research performance, demonstrating significant and broad influence in the field of Biology and Biochemistry (top 1% rank by citation count over the past decade). We would like to thank the members of the group and our collaborators for the excellent environment and opportunities that made this research possible.

We are very pleased to welcome Fannie Kerff to the FSB Team! Fannie joins the team as a PhD student who will be conducting metagenome sequencing-guided investigation of infant gut microbiome development during early life. We look forward to collaborating!

Congratulations to Nicholas (and to collaborators Shana Sturla and Serina Robinson) for a new project, "FluxiFork", funded by UniScientia Foundation and coordinated by the World Food Systems Center. This project extends our collaboration with EAWAG to examine cross-talk between food contact chemicals and the microbiome. Exciting findings ahead!

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Eve Beauchemin to the FSB Team! Eve joins the team as a postdoctoral researcher who will be investigating microbiome establishment within food systems using novel DNA sequencing-based technologies. We look forward to collaborating!

Several students have also graduated and/or finished their rotations/assistantships with the group in the past few months, up until June: Johnny Xiong, Sara De Crescenzo, Timo Rieger, and Santiago Castro Dau. It was a pleasure to work with you, we congratulate you on your very nice accomplishments, and we wish you best luck in the future!

Several students have joined the group between April - June for thesis projects and student assistantships. We are very pleased to welcome Andrew Schürch, Antonia Ruder, Mihnea Mihăilă, Till Bauknecht, Timea Leuch, Lina Houria Ben Amor, Luisa Ferreira, Rachita Kumar, and Mara Bieler. We look forward to working together!

We are very excited to welcome 7 new members to FSB! Milo Schärer, Michelle Neugebauer, Paul Derkach, Renata Magallón Terrazas, Chumei Tang, Stella Greuter, and Charlotte Lambert. We look forward to starting several exciting new projects together.

Happy 2024! We are pleased to have Vinzent Risch join FSB at the start of this year as a research software engineer. Vinzent previously did his masters thesis in the group, followed by an internship in the group.

The HealthFerm Citizen Science project has had a splendid start in 2023, growing to more than 500 participants since the launch of the project in September 2023.  

Lena Flörl and Rodrigo Hernandez Velazquez won the "best poster award" at the World Food System Center Food Day @ETH event for their poster "Microbial biodiversity of fermented foods: a nutritional, cultural, and economic resource".

Congratulations to our fearless leader Nicholas Bokulich for being awarded the Highly Cited Researchers award in the category "Biology and Biochemistry", one of 26 researchers at the ETH to receive this award in 2023.

We are pleased to welcome Annina Meyer to the group, who is starting her PhD as part of the HealthFerm project.

We are pleased to welcome Jorge Peña Diaz to the group, who joins us as a postdoc, and Christos Matzoros, who joins as a research software engineer.

We are pleased to welcome the latest member of the team, the Kingfisher Apex liquid handling robot, who joins us from ThermoFisher Scientific. We look forward to working together!

We were pleased to host the annual HealthFerm meeting and workshop at ETH Zurich in early September. Around 70 researchers came to the ETH for 3 days to discuss research progress, as well as a workshop for early researchers.

We are pleased to welcome Anna Greppi as a senior scientist in FSB, and Zuzana Sebechlebska as a research software engineer.

The laboratory of Food Systems Biotechnology was born on 1 June, 2020. It is now taking its first steps, but has not yet transitioned to solid foods.