Sébastien Gagneux, Professor, PhD
Function(s)
Head of Department, Head of Unit
Organisational Entity
Sébastien Gagneux is Head of the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and Professor of Infection Biology at the University of Basel. After receiving his PhD from the University of Basel, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA. He then started his own laboratory at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London, UK, before joining Swiss TPH. His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance.
Latest Publications
All PublicationsSelected Projects
EVODRTB - Compensatory Evolution and Epistasis in Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium
SNF_SA_Swiss - Evolution and Epidemiology of Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, Cape Town: Implications for Biology and Disease Control
ECOEVODRTB - Linking within-host and between-host evolution of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PANGenS - Pan-Africa Network for Genomic Surveillance of Poverty Related Diseases and Emerging Pathogens
PANACEA2 Genomics