Sébastien Gagneux is Professor of Infection Biology and Head of Department at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) / University of Basel. After receiving his PhD from the University
biomedical research. Sébastien Gagneux received the 2019 Middlebrook Award in recognition for his high-impact work on the evolution and ecology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Gagneux's work combines population [...] of bacterial variation on the host-pathogen interaction and the spread of antibiotic resistance. Gagneux received his PhD from the University of Basel in 2001 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford
population harbor the bacteria in their body. Contact Sébastien Gagneux Professor, PhD Head of Department, Head of Unit +41612848369 sebastien.gagneux@swisstph.ch Sonia Borrell PhD Manager of the Biosafety Level-3 [...] fall ill from tuberculosis remains a great danger. A research team led by cell biologist Sébastien Gagneux at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) examines the antibiotic resistance [...] of his lungs that the bacterial infection ceased and the man was...
malaria combined. It is also the biggest killer of all antimicrobial resistant (AMR) related deaths. Gagneux's research focuses on multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) within the project "Linking [...] record of research achievements. The grant, worth EUR 2.5 million over five years, will allow for Gagneux to build on his previous work on transmission of multidrug-resistant Mtb between patients, with a [...] inside patients, and at what point the bacteria jump from one...
strains and DNA collections in Prof. Gagneux's Unit Conduct independent and collaborative research projects in line with the overall research direction in Prof. Gagneux's Unit Higher education and qualifications
majority of the 10 million new infections and 2 million deaths annually. Under the lead of Sébastien Gagneux at Swiss TPH, a team of 75 scientists at 56 institutions analyzed the genetic make-up of TB bacteria [...] Thanks to this strategy, TB bacteria is transmitted very efficiently from human to human. Sébastien Gagneux and his team show that the generalists pursue an additional strategy. They show a slightly increased [...] different human populations. “Generalists have adapted their...
of his lungs that the bacterial infection ceased and the man was cured. Cell biologist Sébastien Gagneux, Head of the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology (MPI) at the Swiss Tropical [...] a single patient. That is the great potential danger.” A Direct Glimpse into Laboratory Research Gagneux and his team are conducting a research project on the development of antibiotic resistance in TB-causing [...] Switzerland. Swiss TPH's Expertise in Tuberculosis In the Swiss TPH...
training to counter this migrating infectious disease. Sébastien Gagneux Professor, PhD Head of Department, Head of Unit +41612848369 sebastien.gagneux@swisstph.ch Kaspar Wyss Professor, PhD, MPH Senior Project [...] “One third of all deaths caused by antibiotic resistance can be attributed to TB,” said Sébastien Gagneux, Head of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology at Swiss TPH. Swiss TPH is a world-leading institute [...] resistance (AMR). “There is a general lack of awareness of the...
More than 100 years later, TB remains one of humankind’s most deadly infectious diseases. Sebastien Gagneux of Swiss TPH addresses the challenges that we face in the fight against TB and where we are in u
variant calling from fastq reads of bacterial genomes. Steiner A, Stucki D, Coscolla M, Borrell S, Gagneux S. BMC Genomics. 2014 Oct 9;15(1):881. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-881. www.swisstph.ch/kvarq . Downloads [...] Downloads Releases Contact The programme was developed by Andreas Steiner, David Stucki and Sebastien Gagneux .
