Dr. Daniel Pletzer

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMedical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology,Medical Informatics and Medical Bioinformatics
KeywordsPathogens, Animal models, Peptides, Antibiotics, Biofilm

Current contact address

CountryNew Zealand
CityDunedin
InstitutionUniversity of Otago
InstituteDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Robert HancockDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2015

Programme(s)

2015Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2017Corrie R. Belanger, Sarah C. Mansour, Daniel Pletzer and Robert E.W. Hancoc: Alternative strategies for the study and treatment of clinical bacterial biofilms. In: Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2017,
2017Pletzer D, Mansour SC, Wuerth K, Rahanjam N, Hancock RE: New Mouse Model for Chronic Infections by Gram-Negative Bacteria Enabling the Study of Anti-Infective Efficacy and Host-Microbe Interactions.. In: MBio, 2017,
2017Pletzer D, Wolfmeier H, Bains M, Hancock REW.: Synthetic Peptides to Target Stringent Response-Controlled Virulence in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Murine Cutaneous Infection Model.. In: Front Microbiol., 2017, 1867
2016Daniel Pletzer, Shannon Coleman, Robert Hancock: Anti-biofilm peptides as a new weapon in antimicrobial warfare. In: Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2016, 35-40
2016Daniel Pletzer, Bob Hancock: Anti-biofilm peptides: Potential as broad-spectrum agents. In: J Bacteriol., 2016, 2572-2578
2016Sarah C. Mansour, Daniel Pletzer, Cesar de la Fuente-Núñez, Paul Kim, Gordon Y. Cheung, HS Joo, Michael Otto, Robert E.W. Hancock.: Bacterial Abscess Formation Is Controlled by the Stringent Stress Response and Can Be Targeted Therapeutically.. In: EBioMedicine, 2016,