Dr. Markus Hilty

Curriculum vitae Markus Hilty
Date of birth:
30.01.1976
Nationalities:
Liechtenstein and Switzerland
Marital status:
Single
University address:
Institute for Infectious Diseases of the University of Bern,
Friedbühlstrasse 51
CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
Phone: 031 6324983
E-Mail: [email protected]
Current position:
Senior research associate (Oberassistent)
Data manager of the National Reference Centre for Antibiotic Resistance
(www.search.ifik.unibe.ch)
Tutor in problem-based learning for medical students
Supervisor of three PhD students
Member of the Swiss Society for Microbiology
Member of the Computational Biology working group of Bern
Silver Member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
University Education and Employment
2009-today
Senior research associate and lecturer for medical students, Institute for
Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Switzerland (Director a.i., Prof M.
Täuber)
2006-2009
Research associate, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College,
London, United Kingdom (Associate Head, Prof. W.O. Cookson)
2002-2006
PhD, Microbiology and molecular epidemiology, Swiss Tropical
and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland (PhD thesis
advisor, Dr. J. Zinsstag)
1998-2001
Master of Sciences (MSc), Bio- and Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
1996-1998
Bachelor of Sciences (BSc), Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Honours and Awards (Selection)
The Swiss Society of Hospital Hygiene (SSHH) & the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI),
St. Gallen, 2012 (Award for the paper of the year; 15000 CHF); European Congress of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), London, England, 2012 (Travel grant awarded);
Human Microbiome Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 2011 (Invited Guest speaker; Travel grant
awarded); Imperial College award, London, United Kingdom, 2008 (Member of the research group
which won excellence award); Metagenomic congress, San Diego, USA, 2008 (Invited speaker);
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus congress, Hinxton, United Kingdom, 2008 (Invited speaker);
Additional training and courses (Selection)
Symposium in Metagenomics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2011; Basic didactics for
lecturers, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2011; Introduction in Perl, Swiss Institute of
Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010; Computational Analysis of Ultra-High-Throughput
Sequencing Data, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010; Problem-based
learning tutor course, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2010; Data manager workshop
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 2009;
Science for schools, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 2007;
Peer review activities (Selection)
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, since 2012; Environmental Microbiology, since 2012; PLoS One,
since 2010; PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, since 2011; African Journal of Microbiology, since
2011
Publication list (2010-2013)
Brugger, S., L. Frei, P. Frey, S. Aebi, K. Mühlemann and M. Hilty. 2012. 16S rRNA Terminal
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism for the Characterization of the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota.
PLoS One. In press.
Hilty, M., P. Sendi, S. Seiffert, S. Droz, V. Perreten, A. Hujer, RA, Bonomo, K. Mühlemann and A.
Endimiani. 2012. Characterization and Clinical Features of Enterobacter cloacae Bloodstream Infections
Occurring at a Tertiary Care University Hospital in Switzerland: Is Cefepime the Adequate Therapy?
Int J Antimicrob Agents. In press.
Hilty, M., B. Betsch, K. Bögli-Stuber, N. Heiniger, M. Stadler, M. Küffer, A. Kronenberg, C. Rohrer,
S. Aebi, A. Endimiani, S. Droz and Kathrin Mühlemann. 2012. Transmission dynamics of extendedspectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the tertiary care hospital and the
household setting. Clin Infect Dis. 55(7): 967-75
Endimiani, A., M. Hilty, V. Perreten. 2012. CMY-2-producing Escherichia coli in the Nose of Pigs.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 56(8):4556-7
Hilty, M., W. Qi, S. Brugger, L. Frei, P. Agyeman, P. Frey, S. Aebi, and K. Muhlemann. 2012. The
nasopharyngeal microbiota in infants with acute otitis media. J Infect Dis 205:1048-55
Goulding, J., A. Godlee, S. Vekaria, M. Hilty, R. Snelgrove and T. Hussell. 2011. Lowering the
threshold of lung innate immune cell activation alters susceptibility to secondary bacterial
superinfection. J Infect Dis 204:1086-94
Hilty, M., C. Burke, H. Pedro, P. Cardenas, A. Bush, C. Bossley, J. Davies, A. Ervine, L. Poulter, L.
Pachter, M. F. Moffatt, and W. O. Cookson. 2010. Disordered microbial communities in asthmatic
airways. PLoS One 5:e8578. (Cited >100 times and by the F1000)