Shivanthi Samarasinghe
De Montfort University, UK
Biography
Dr S. Samarasinghe’s research career commenced with securing a highly internationally competitive Darwin Trust of Edinburgh doctoral scholarship to work under a world-leading Molecular Microbiologist, Professor Steve Busby, FRS (University of Birmingham) to study the molecular mechanisms that control the gene expression in Escherichia coli. After completing her doctoral studies, she complted a Post-doctoral Research position (2008-2011) at the University of Leicester to understand the molecular mechanisms that control the cell division of higher Eukaryotic Microbes. During that time she was selected as a Visiting Research Fellow at a most prestigious Molecular biology research Lab, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, (EMBL), Germany. Presently, the focus of her scientific research is to understand the underlying genetic characteristics of antibiotic-resistant bacteria associated with Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), and how these characteristics can be manipulated to combat resistance via developing novel anti-microbial therapies.
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