Onya Opota

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Faculty of Biology and Medicine


Microbiology (IMU)
Position(s) : Biologist, Medical Senior Lecturer, Privat-Docent
Rue du Bugnon 48
1011 Lausanne
Téléphone : 021 314 40 58

Privat-docent et Maître d'enseignement et de recherche
Spécialiste FAMH en Microbiologie Médicale
Responsable laboratoires de Diagnostic Moléculaire, Mycobactéries et Biosécurité

Keywords

Antibiorésistance
Antibiotic resistance
Infection
Infections sexuellement transmises
Laboratory medicine
Medical microbiology
Molecular Diagnostic
Molecular virology
Parasite infection
PCR
SARS CoV2
Tuberculosis
Virus respiratoires

Scientific distinctions and prizes

ESCMID Fellows - honorary ESCMID title 2022

The merit-based title “ESCMID Fellow” recognizes individuals who have achieved professional excellence and rendered outstanding service to the profession and the society.
Recipient : Onya Opota

Board member 2023

The Swiss Foundation for Tuberculosis Research (SwissTB) is a non-for profit organization that was founded on October 16th, 2001. The aim of the Foundation is to support and advance research on tuberculosis in Switzerland, and to promote the exchange of information and the collaboration between the different research groups in Switzerland.
https://www.swisstb.org/en/index.html
Recipient : Onya Opota

Reviewer distinction 2017

Distinction from the editorial board of Clinical Microbiology and Infection as top reviewer of the year.
Recipient : Onya Opota

Swiss Society of Pneumology Poster Discussion Award 2019

Annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Pneumology. "Whole genome sequencing characterisation of isoniazid resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis undetected by conventional molecular methods". Award for the best oral poster presentation.
Recipient : Onya Opota

Igem Team Gold medal award and Team iGEMers' Prize 2010

Awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Team Gold medal award and Team iGEMers' Prize.
Recipient : Onya Opota

Oral Presentation Award of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology 2007

40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Quebec, Canada. "The effects of a bacterial toxin are modulated by the regiolocalization of its specific receptor at the cell surface" (2007). Oral Presentation Award.
Recipient : Onya Opota

Mauro E. Martignoni award 2006

Awarded for the best student achievement at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Wuhan, P.R. China for the work: "Cellular mode of action of the Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin" (2006).
Recipient : Onya Opota

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