Meet the Team

Jordi van Gestel

Group Leader [🇳🇱]
Corentin Bisot

Postdoctoral Fellow [🇫🇷]
Studying the link between collective migration and navigating through air gaps in soils.
Nikki Cannon

Predoctoral Fellow [🇺🇸]
I am interested in computationally integrating taxonomic and functional information from soil microbes to untangle predator-prey dynamics.
Mireia Garriga-Canut

Laboratory Officer [🇪🇸]
Developing genetic tools in both Dictyostelids and bacteria.
Gabriela Gastelum Urbina

Postdoctoral Fellow [🇲🇽]
I am interested in understanding how predation shapes community structure and dynamics in soil.
Andrew Michael Hogan

Postdoctoral Fellow [🇨🇦]
Studying the genetics and genomics of bacterial resistance to protist predation.
Laura Sanchis Pla

Predoctoral Fellow [🇪🇸]
Applying synthetic biology to obtain quantifiable and high throughput data to understand the impact of predation on microbial ecosystems.
Shraddha Shitut

Scientific Officer [🇮🇳]
Developing spatial imaging methods to visualise the bacterial landscape of soil communities under different stressors.
Vanessa Stuermer

Predoctoral Fellow [🇩🇪]
Using microfluidics to studying foraging strategies of Dictyostelids.
Nitzan Tal

Postdoctoral Fellow (EIPOD) [🇮🇱]
Studying the molecular pathways that enable bacteria to detect protist predators.
Andrea Zanon

Predoctoral Fellow [🇮🇹]
Developing a real-time and high-throughput assay for microbial growth, development and dispersal.
Elena Jana Zantner

Undergraduate intern [🇩🇪]
Exploring protist–bacteria interactions and the mechanisms of protist predation and bacterial resistance