Career discussion with a PI from SymbNET

Date: 10 Nov 2022, 16:00-17:00

Format: presential, at FCG-IGC

Pascale Vonaesch, who visited the FCG-IGC on the 10^th and 11^th  November to give a SymbNET seminar and discuss current and potential collaborations with FCG-IGC partners, held an informal discussion with FCG-IGC students and postdocs about her career. In a relaxed atmosphere, where coffee/tea and cake were served to help “fuel the discussion”, the researcher from UNIL shared the paths that led to her current position and some tips on career choices and strategies. The event was co-organised with the IGC Postdoc committee, which gathered some questions/topics that the participants wanted to bring to the discussion.

About the speaker:

Pascale Vonaesch, MSc, MPH, PhD is a microbiologist/ infection biologist with a strong interest in public health. She has extensively worked on host-pathogen interactions, especially the interplay between enteric pathogens and the host and spent the last eight years trying to disentangle the complex interplay between nutrition, the microbiota, infection and systemic, pathophysiological changes in the (human) host both, in clinical studies and laboratory experiments. She earned her PhD at ETH in Zürich and worked subsequently for six years at the Institut Pasteur in Paris collaborating closely with the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar and the Institut Pasteur de Bangui and the University of British Columbia. Before joining the DMF in 2021, she set-up her own group at the Swiss TPH. Beside work, she likes mountaineering, travelling, baking and spending time with her family and friends.