Prof. Dr. Shinichi Sunagawa

Prof. Dr.  Shinichi Sunagawa

Prof. Dr. Shinichi Sunagawa

Associate Professor at the Department of Biology
Head of Institute of Microbiology

ETH Zürich

Institut für Mikrobiologie

HCI F 417

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

We are interested in studying ecological and evolutionary factors that determine the structure, function and diversity of microbial communities. Our current focus is on the ocean ecosystem and the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans. We develop and combine bioinformatic and experimental approaches to integrate quantitative ‘meta-omics’ readouts with contextual information, with the goal to better understand and predict the role of environmental microorganisms and the underlying mechanisms of host-microbial homeostasis.

Shinichi Sunagawa is a professor in the Department of Biology at ETH Zürich since 2016. He was born in Germany, where he studied Biochemistry (Diploma 2002) and Marine Ecology (MSc 2005). In 2010, he graduated with a PhD in Systems Biology at the University of California, Merced, USA, before he joined the Computational Biology group of Peer Bork at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. At the EMBL he initially worked as a postdoc (2010-2011), and then as Research- and Staff Scientist (2012-2016). In 2016, he was appionted as Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor of Microbiome Research at ETH Zürich in 2020. He is also a Didactic Fellow of ETH Zurich, providing newly appointed and interested professors with individual training in advanced didactic and peer mentoring tools.

Membership

Since Membership
2019 International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME)
2018 Group Leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2018 Tara Pacific consortium
2010 Tara Oceans consortium

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
551-0132-00L Practical Training in Bioinformatics
551-1109-00L Seminars in Microbiology
551-1294-00L Genetics, Genomics

Publications

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