Christoph Keel
MER

Research theme: Suppression of plant diseases by beneficial soil bacteria

• Interactions between Pseudomonas fluorescens, phytopathogenic fungi, and crop plants.

• Regulation of antibiotic production in P. fluorescens.

• Root colonization and motility.

• Response of P. fluorescens to environmental stress.

Since 1998
Member of the steering committee of the Swiss Society for Phytiatry. President since 2003.

Since 1995
Tenured senior lecturer and research group leader (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

1992-1995
Senior research associate and group leader at the Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1991
Postdoc (OECD) at the Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A.

1989-1991
Postdoc at the Institute of Phytomedicine, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1985-1989
PhD work at the Institute of Phytomedicine, ETH Zürich. Silver medal ETH for excellent thesis. Teaching certificate ETH for agricultural high schools (1988).

1980-1985
Studies in Agronomy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

Born on 14 Nov. 1960 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Married, 2 children.

• Practical courses in General Microbiology (4^th semester, BSc, Biology)

• Biosafety (6^th semester, BSc bloc option BCM, Biology)

• Host - pathogen interactions (7^th semester, MSc option GBE, Biology)

• Interactions between prokaryotes and eukaryotes: signals and molecular genetics (8^th semester, MSc option GBE, Biology)

• Student research projects and seminars (MSc option GBE, Biology)

Complete list of publications...

On 10th April 2013, the renowned "Neue Zürcher Zeitung - NZZ" reported on some of our recent work in the article entitled "Bacteria in the soil: combat pests with natural enemies" (Bodenbakterien für die Landwirtschaft, Pflanzenschädlinge mit natürlichen Feinden bekämpfen).