Prof. Adrian Egli is the Head of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology of the University Hospital Basel and a research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel. His research focuses on host-pathogen interaction and he and his team aims to understand antibiotic resistance and virulence development in single bacterial species and bacterial communities. He has published more than 150 articles, including high-ranked journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature, Plos Pathogens, and many more. Prof. Egli coordinates large national incentives in Switzerland including the SPHN/PHRT funded Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study and the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform. He is a member of the Microbiota Vault pilot team in Switzerland.