Curriculum Vitae
Present: Post-doctoral position with George Kowalchuk at the Department of Terrestrial Microbial Ecology, NIOO KNAW Centre for Terrestrial Ecology
2007 – 2009: Post-doctoral position with Angus Buckling, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK (NWO rubicon grant)
2002 – 2006: Ph.D. with Gregory Velicer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology / Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
2004: Academic Visitor with Angus Buckling, University of Bath, UK (3 months)
1995 – 2001: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology (specialization: Marine Biology), University of Groningen, The Netherlands, including a M.Sc. project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA
Selected Publications
M. Vos. A species concept for bacteria based on adaptive divergence (2011) Trends Microbiol. 19: 1-7
G. J. Velicer and M. Vos. Sociobiology of the Myxobacteria (2009) Annu. Rev. Microbiol 63:599-623
M. Vos and G. J. Velicer. Social conflict in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at local and global scales (2009) Curr. Biol. 19:1763-1767
M. Vos, P. J. Birkett, E. Birch, R. Griffiths and A. Buckling. Local adaptation of bacteriophages to their bacterial hosts in soil (2009) Science 325: 833
M. Vos. Why do bacteria engage in homologous recombination? (2009) Trends Microbiol. 17: 226-232
M. Vos and X. Didelot. A comparison of homologous recombination rates in bacteria and archaea (2009) ISME J 3: 199–208
D. Krug, G. Zurek, O. Revermann, M. Vos, G. J. Velicer and R. Müller. Discovering the hidden secondary metabolome of Myxococcus xanthus: a study of intra-specific diversity (2008) Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 3058-68
M. Vos and G. J. Velicer. Variation in gliding motility in a natural Myxococcus xanthus population (2008) FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 64: 343–50
M. Vos and G. J. Velicer. Isolation by distance in the spore-forming soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus (2008) Curr. Biol. 18:386-91
A. Buckling, F. Harrison, M. Vos, M. A. Brockhurst, A. Gardner, S. A. West and A. Griffin. Siderophore-mediated cooperation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2007) FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 62:135-41
F. Harrison, L. E. Browning, M. Vos and A. Buckling. Cooperation and virulence in acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections 2006 BMC Biol. 4:21
M. Vos and G. J. Velicer. Genetic population structure of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at the centimeter scale (2006) Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:3615-25.
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