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Anita Schürch

Associate Professor

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Research groups

Microbial genomics and metagenomics

Research aim

We develop novel genomic methods for reconstructing and tracking antimicrobial resistance genes by building bioinformatics tools to facilitate data analysis of massive sequence data sets of pathogens and microbiomes.

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Molecular and cellular host-microbiota interactions

Research aim

Our research aims to unravel how the products from pathogenic and beneficial bacterial species within the intestinal microbiota contribute to human health and disease.

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Recent publications

Alarum Marianne A B van der Sande, Daniel Valia, Caroline Tigoi, Nicole Stoesser, Linda Stamm, Andrea Marten, Bram Riems, Robert Musyimi, Yougbare Sibidou, Anita C Schurch, Eric W Tiendrebeogo, Shalton Mwaringa, Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, Brecht Ingelbeen, Halidou Tinto, Julia A Bielicki, Ben S Cooper, James A Berkley, Esther van Kleef
BMJ Open, 2026, vol. 16
Effect of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae oil feed inclusion on growth performance and fecal microbiome development in post-weaning pigs Matteo Buffoni, Marco Viveen, J. Arjan GM De Visser, Lapo Mughini-Gras, Rob JL Willems, Anita C. Schürch, Jannigje G. Kers
Livestock Science, 2025, vol. 301
Dissemination of IncQ1 Plasmids Harboring NTEKPC-IId in a Brazilian Hospital Camila Maria dos Santos Boralli, Julian Andres Paganini, Rodrigo Silva Meneses, Camila Pacheco Silveira Martins da Mata, Edna Marilea Meireles Leite, Anita C. Schürch, Fernanda L. Paganelli, Rob J.L. Willems, Ilana L.B.C. Camargo
Microorganisms, 2025, vol. 13
Pan-pathogen deep sequencing of nosocomial bacterial pathogens in Italy in spring 2020 Harry A Thorpe, Maiju Pesonen, Marta Corbella, Henri Pesonen, Stefano Gaiarsa, Christine J Boinett, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Tommi Mäklin, Anna K Pöntinen, Neil MacAlasdair, Rebecca A Gladstone, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso, Teemu Kallonen, Dorota Jamrozy, Stephanie W Lo, Chrispin Chaguza, Grace A Blackwell, Antti Honkela, Anita C Schürch, Rob J L Willems, Cristina Merla, Greta Petazzoni, Edward J Feil, Patrizia Cambieri, Nicholas R Thomson, Stephen D Bentley, Davide Sassera, Jukka Corander
The Lancet. Microbe, 2024, vol. 5, p.100890
PlasmidEC and gplas2: an optimized short-read approach to predict and reconstruct antibiotic resistance plasmids in Escherichia coli. Julian A Paganini, Jesse J Kerkvliet, Lisa Vader, Nienke L Plantinga, Rodrigo Meneses, Jukka Corander, Rob J L Willems, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso, Anita C Schürch
Microbial genomics, 2024, vol. 10
Metagenomic assembly is the main bottleneck in the identification of mobile genetic elements Jesse J Kerkvliet, Alex Bossers, Jannigje G Kers, Rodrigo Meneses, Rob Willems, Anita C Schürch
PeerJ, 2024, vol. 12