27/03/2025 SNSF Project Grant Approved!
Good news, our first SNSF Project Grant on the spatiotemporal regulation of cell wall hydrolyses was approved!!! We are very excited to expand our efforts on this project and will be recruiting soon PhD and postdocs. Additionally, the Navarro lab also received an other SNSF Grant on a different project – lots of reasons to celebrate 😉 Excited to see where these projects will take us!
17/03/2025 Two new BNF participants join our lab
Senanuar Makas and Anabel Martinez Begochea join us for a six month BNF project. We are confident that you will be learning a lot in your time with us and wish you good start!
01/03/2025 First Departures
The new year begins with the departure of Virginie and Lucy, following the successful completion of their BNF and internship projects, respectively. While we are sad to see you go, we are truly grateful for all your contributions to the lab. We wish you the very best of luck in your future endeavors!
17/02/2025 Marina Arnau Alemany joins us as our first ever MLS-Microbiology First Step Student
Marina will work with Dieuwertje on mycomembrane biogenesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum. We are excited to have you in the lab and see where this project goes!
24/11/2024 The lab goes curling….!
22/11/2024 DMF Impromptu Symposium
Paula Navarro and Andrea organize this year’s DMF Symposium on Bacterial Cell Biology. We are looking forward to an exciting day of science.
09/10/2024 Wellcome Rachel
Rachel Hope joins us as our second PhD student. Rachel completed her MSc in the lab of Mark Leak at University of York Investigating replication-transcription conflicts in E. coli using single-molecule biophysics.
12/09/2024 New Preprint from our collaborators in Prague, Czech Republic on Stress-mediated growth for determination of bacterial division site morphology. Check it out here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.11.612282v1
01/08/2024 Wellcome Lucy
Lucy Miles joins us all the way from Australia for 8 month internship focused on cell morphology in polar growing bacteria.
06/06.2024 We are expanding
All available position have been filled during the first round of recruitment and we currently do not have funding available for additional positions. We are still actively looking for undergraduate and masters students to join us for a first step or MSc-thesis project!
If interested, email Andrea describing why you are motivated to join and include a brief overview of your previous research as well as a short CV containing at least one reference contact. Looking forward to hearing from you!
01/02/2024 The lab is open!
The doors to Vettiger lab are officially open and we are looking for motivated PhD and Postdocs to join our research group. To learn more what a project in our lab could look like have a look at respective posts (PhD) http://bit.ly/3vEC8uq / (Postdocs) https://bit.ly/3vErwMd
Interested BSc or MSc from UNIL should directly contact Andrea via email.