Prof. Dr. Emma Wetter Slack
Area of Interest
Food Immunology
Prerequisites a student should comply with
Students should be prepared to get their hands really dirty. Excitement about interdisciplinary approaches to solve major problems in (gut) health would also be beneficial.
Students will learn techniques potentially including bacterial and mammalian cell flow cytometry, molecular biology of anaerobes, microfluidics, anaerobic bacterial culture, gnotobiology, indirect calorimetry and metabolite analysis.
Recommended master courses (Electives I+II of Learning Agreement of the Major)
376-0209-00 Molecular Disease Mechanisms
376-1719-00 Statistics for Experimental Research
401-0629-00 Applied Biostatistics (as alternative)
551-1003-00 Methoden der Biologischen Analytik I
752-6101-00 Dietary Etiologies of Chronic Disease
551-0317-00 Immunology I
551-0318-00 Immunology II
551-1105-00 Glycobiology
752-4009-00 Infectious Agents: From Molecular Biology to Disease Molecular Biology of Foodborne Pathogens
Research projects of the group
- Functional immunity in the intestine
- Microbiota engineering
- Microbiota metabolism
- Oral vaccines
- Evolution of intestinal bacteria