Infectious Diseases

Corinna Glasner
My name is Corinna Glasner. I live in a world where little microbes matter, the world of medical microbiology and infection prevention, the world of human health. After I finished my PhD “Bacterial fingerprints across Europe” in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention at the University Medical Center Groningen and a short adventure in Cambridge at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I am now, since August 2016, the scientific project manager of two INTERREG projects called “EurHealth-1Health” and “health-i-care”. Together with around 50 science, business and health partners in the Dutch-German border region, we try to combating antibiotic resistance and improving infection prevention. With our work we want to protect humans and in turn patients in our border region and beyond. With my work I learn and live every day in and for our exciting border region and Europe.

Marjon de Vos
Marjon de Vos is Assistant Professor at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She investigates ecological and evolutionary processes in (infectious) microbial communities. Her research group aims to understand the genotype-phenotype-fitness relationships within (evolving) microbial communities, and aims to elucidate the ecological drivers of evolution. We study these eco-evolutionary processes in the 'Evolutionary Medicine' realm, using molecular biological tools, by performing phenotypic and growth measurements, and modeling. By unveiling the fundamental ecological and evolutionary microbial processes in infectious disease, we hope to improve and contribute to strategies that can alleviate infectious diseases and limit the spread of antibiotic resistance.