Dr. Emma Marie Caroline Wetter Slack
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Curriculum Vitae
Emma Slack is a lecturer and Oberassistentin in the Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL) ETH Zurich. Her group develops methodologies to study the within-host dynamics of intestinal bacterial populations and applies these to better understand host-bacterial interactions in the intestine.
Emma Slack studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, UK. She did her PhD thesis (2003-2006) with Caetano Reis e Sousa at the London Research Institute (CRUK), studying pattern recognition receptor signaling. From 2007-2011, she worked in the group of Prof Andrew Macpherson, first at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and then at the University of Bern, Switzerland. During this time, she focused on host-microbiota mutualism in conditions of innate immune deficiency in mice and in clinical settings. In 2011, Emma was awarded an Ambizione fellowship from the SNF and took up at position as an Oberassistentin in the group of Wolf-Dietrich Hardt at the ETH Zürich .Since then she has focused on the function of adaptive immunity in controlling bacterial replication and clearance kinetics in the intestine. She has also played a large part in establishing germ-free and gnotobiotic animal facilities at the ETHZ.