I work with Prof. Andres Floto at the Department of Medicine and the HLRI (Floto Lab).
I want to know how, when and why bacteria use their genes and their products, and ultimately, what makes a successful pathogen.
To study this, I use microbial functional genomics, to analyse the behaviour of bacterial pathogens, in particular Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacteriaceae species (Salmonella Typhimurium, Enterobacter cloacae) and others, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium abscessus or Burkholderia cenocepacia.
My main research interests are Antimicrobial Resistance and Host-Pathogen Interactions in K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa. Therefore, I am using different sequencing-based methods (functional genomics) to understand how bacteria adapt to certain stresses (gene regulation) and which genes are important during such conditions (gene fitness).
