Erik Bakkeren

ETH Zurich — Switzerland

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

17h-index2.1kcitations37works5.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology(15), Vibrio bacteria research studies(11), Escherichia coli research studies(10), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions(10), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria(9)

Publications37 total

Reprogrammed SimCells for Antimicrobial Therapy
2025
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
Nature Microbiology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)·2025Open Access
Antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella exploits post-antibiotic microbiota disruption to achieve virulence-dependent transmission
Cell Reports·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering
Cell Host & Microbe·2025· 22 citedOpen Access
Context-dependent change in the fitness effect of (in)organic phosphate antiporter glpT during Salmonella Typhimurium infection
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
MEEhubs2024: A hub-based conference on microbial ecology and evolution fostering sustainability
FEMS Microbiology Letters·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Loss of the putative Rab GTPase, Ypt7, impairs the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans
Frontiers in Microbiology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Salmonella T3SS-2 virulence enhances gut-luminal colonization by enabling chemotaxis-dependent exploitation of intestinal inflammation
Cell Reports·2024· 17 citedOpen Access
Diverse gut microbiomes give better protection against harmful bugs – now we know why
2023
Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking
Science·2023· 332 citedOpen Access
The microbiota conditions a gut milieu that selects for wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium virulence
PLoS Biology·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
Differences in carbon metabolic capacity fuel co-existence and plasmid transfer between Salmonella strains in the mouse gut
Cell Host & Microbe·2023· 32 citedOpen Access
The Mobilizable Plasmid P3 of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium SL1344 Depends on the P2 Plasmid for Conjugative Transfer into a Broad Range of Bacteria <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>In Vivo</i>
Journal of Bacteriology·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
The mobilizable plasmid P3 of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serovar Typhimurium SL1344 depends on the P2 plasmid for conjugative transfer into a broad range of bacteria <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>
2022Open Access
Impact of horizontal gene transfer on emergence and stability of cooperative virulence in Salmonella Typhimurium
Nature Communications·2022· 34 citedOpen Access
Pathogen invasion-dependent tissue reservoirs and plasmid-encoded antibiotic degradation boost plasmid spread in the gut
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Vam6/Vps39/ <scp>TRAP1</scp> ‐domain proteins influence vacuolar morphology, iron acquisition and virulence in <i>Cryptococcus neoformans</i>
Cellular Microbiology·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Author response: Pathogen invasion-dependent tissue reservoirs and plasmid-encoded antibiotic degradation boost plasmid spread in the gut
2021Open Access
A rationally designed oral vaccine induces immunoglobulin A in the murine gut that directs the evolution of attenuated Salmonella variants
Nature Microbiology·2021· 38 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt(24), Emma Slack(10), Médéric Diard(10), Ersin Gül(9), Kathrin Moor(7), Médéric Diard(7), Mikael E. Sellin(6), Markus Arnoldini(6), Jana S. Huisman(6), Adrian Egli(6), Yves Steiger(6), Luca Piccoli(5), Antonio Lanzavecchia(5), Roland R. Regoes(5), Claude Loverdo(5), Annika Hausmann(5), Daniel Hoces(5), Kevin R. Foster(4), Stefan A. Fattinger(4), Sebastian Bonhoeffer(4)