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Our lab works towards a systems understanding of pathogen transmission: integrating host, pathogen and environmental aspects.
We combine patient cohorts with novel technologies to have an innovative translational research setting. In vitro and in vivo data is further used in computational models.
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Welcome Ruan and Wannisa!
A warm welcome to our two new team members!
Wannisa joins us as a new PhD student and will be working on the sepsis project under Ashley’s supervision. We are very much looking forward to her contributions and to having her in the group.
Ruan joins us as a visiting scientist. We are excited about the insights and perspectives he brings to the team and look forward to working with him.
Multiple grants for our lab 🎊
Grants are in the house! 🎊
Multiple lab members secured substantial funding for ongoing and future projects:
Dr. Alejandro Guerrero López received the highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (only 9.6% acceptance rate) for the OUTBRAID project. The project aims to transform hospital outbreak detection by developing machine learning models that analyse MALDI-TOF mass spectra, complemented by WGS-derived relatedness metrics. Cheers to 2 years funding!
PhD candidate Zoey Germuskova was awarded the ESCMID Individual Research Grant for her ongoing project on the rare zoonotic pathogen Capnocytophaga and the Global Capnocytophaga Consortium. Go team Capno!
PhD candidate Elisa Sosa secured a SNF mobility grant (formerly Doc.Mobility) for a 6-months research stay with Dr. Gerry Tonkin-Hill at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Yeah mate!
Congratulations to all grantees, well done!
Welcome Brenden, Dilaksa, Laurent, Luis and Niloofar!
This month, we are delighted to welcome several new members to the AMR group. It is always exciting to see our team grow, and we look forward to the energy and ideas each of them brings to our research.
Niloofar joins us as a visiting PhD student from Milan. She will be working on the Acinetobacter project, with a focus on Nanopore sequencing and plasmid analysis. We are very much looking forward to her contributions to our genomic investigations.
Luis, a visiting PhD student from Madrid, will be contributing his expertise in Artificial Intelligence and MALDI-TOF–based analyses. We are excited about the new perspectives he brings to the group.
We also welcome Dilaksa and Brenden, who are starting their BSc thesis projects on an AMR app. We look forward to supporting them as they develop and expand this important tool.
Finally, Laurent joins us for his BSc thesis project in collaboration with Ashley, working on a 16S-related research project. We are pleased to have him in the team and look forward to the progress of his work.
A very warm welcome to all of you, we wish you a great start and an inspiring and productive time in the AMR group!