Camille Goemans

Camille Goemans is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the BIO department at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research focuses on understanding how antibiotics and non-antibiotic drugs affect the diverse bacteria from the human gut microbiota and how they contribute to dysbiosis and the development of antibiotic resistance. She combines systems approaches with molecular microbiology, bacterial genetics, and biochemistry. Goemans obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biomedical Sciences from UCLouvain, Belgium, and completed her PhD at the de Duve Institute, Belgium, in the laboratory of Prof. Jean-François Collet. She then pursued post-doctoral studies at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) with Dr. Nassos Typas.

Camille Goemans is an Assistant Professor at EPFL specializing in Microbiology. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of antibiotics on gut bacteria and the mechanisms of bacterial stress responses. She investigates how antibiotics cause collateral damage to gut microbiota, leading to dysbiosis and potential health risks. Her work also explores the role of chaperone proteins and redox systems in bacterial proteostasis, particularly in Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus. Goemans examines how cysteine residues and thioredoxins contribute to the assembly and protection of bacterial cell envelopes. Her studies highlight the importance of redox homeostasis in bacterial survival and antibiotic resistance.