Melanie Blokesch#
| Membership Number: | 7180 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/blokesch-lab/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7024-1489 |
| X: | @MBlokesch |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-dr-melanie-blokesch-b354b12/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Director, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- 2021 - present Full Professor, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2016 - 2021 Associate Professor (tenured), Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2009 - 2016 Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2005 - 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine & Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, CA, USA
- 2000 - 2004 PhD student in Biology; Department Biology I, Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulatory networks
- Mobile genetic elements
- Bacteriology
- Microbiology
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Defense systems
- Bacteriophages
- Secretion systems
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM)
- 2021 Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2019 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2018 Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
- 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council
- 2015 Research Award, Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), Germany
- 2015 EPFL teaching award “Polysphère” by the student association for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences
- 2012 ERC Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council
- 2012 Teaching award by the School of Life Sciences, EPFL
- 2005 Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
