We are the Laboratory for Mucosal Immunology at ETH Zurich and The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

Our lab is dedicated to understand the interactions between microbes and the host at mucosal surfaces. We are interested in applying this knowledge to prevent and treat human and veterinary diseases. We want to understand how diet, microbiota, metabolism and immunity interact in health and disease. Currently we are 80% located at the ETH Zürich, and 20% in Oxford, with research running in both locations.

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Mucosal immune system

The interactions between diet, the microbiota and the host immune system

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"Next-generation" vaccines

Safe and effective vaccines for application in livestock rearing.

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Microbiota metabolism

Mechanistic understanding of food-as-therapy for microbiota/immunity-related diseases.

Research Projects

Our current understanding of microbiota population dynamics in the gut is based on the sequencing data or the quantification of certain strains by culture.

Publications

Reproducible Colonization of Germ-Free Mice With the Oligo-Mouse-Microbiota in Different Animal Facilities

Claudia Eberl, Diana Ring, Philipp C. Münch, Markus Beutler, Marijana Basic, Emma C. Slack, Martin Schwarzer, Dagmar Srutkova, Anna Lange, Julia S. Frick, André Bleich and Bärbel Stecher

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10, pp. 2999, Lausanne: Fontiers Research Foundation, 2020.

Reproducible Colonization of Germ-Free Mice With the Oligo-Mouse-Microbiota in Different Animal Facilities

Claudia Eberl, Diana Ring, Philipp C. Münch, Markus Beutler, Marijana Basic, Emma C. Slack, Martin Schwarzer, Dagmar Srutkova, Anna Lange, Julia S. Frick, André Bleich and Bärbel Stecher

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10, pp. 2999, Lausanne: Fontiers Research Foundation, 2020.

IgA and the intestinal microbiota: the importance of being specific

Oliver Pabst and Emma Slack

Mucosal Immunology, vol. 13: no. 1, pp. 12-21, New York, NY: Nature Publishing Group, 2020

Growing, evolving and sticking in a flowing environment: understanding IgA interactions with bacteria in the gut

Daniel Hoces, Markus Arnoldini, Médéric Diard, Claude Loverdo and Emma Wetter Slack

Immunology, vol. 159: no. 1, pp. 52-62, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2020

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