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Dr. Alan Pacheco will join the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne as a tenure-track assistant professor and Branco Weiss Fellow in September 2025. Alan carried out his postdoctoral research as a Branco Weiss and JSMF Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Julia Vorholt at ETH Zurich, where he combined synthetic community experiments with computational modeling to understand metabolic interactions among leaf-associated bacteria in Arabidopsis thaliana. He completed his Ph.D. in bioinformatics in the group of Daniel Segrè at Boston University, where he developed principles for engineering synthetic microbial communities via metabolic interactions.
More information can be found here: Full CV; Publication list
National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Microbiomes
Vorholt Lab, ETH Zurich
Stocker Lab, ETH Zurich
Hatzimanikatis Lab, EPFL
Segrè Lab, Boston University
Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, Santa Fe Institute
Stefany Moreno Gámez, Cordero Lab, MIT