Laura Daniela Martinenghi
PhD fellow
Food Safety and Zoonoses
Stigbøjlen 4
1870 Frederiksberg C
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I have a background as a Spanish teacher, but I also have a bachelor's in Molecular Biology and Chemistry and a master's in Biomedicine, and currently working on my Ph.D. research.
Partially my Ph.D. is based on the history of medicine, particularly in the empty antimicrobial pipeline.
I am part of five research groups around Europe. We focus on this topic addressing different angles, in my case, the role of targets in drug development.
Besides I am part of the Food Safety and Zoonoses Institute at KU , on the Veterinary Public Health research group.
My interest is mainly in antimicrobial resistance, synthesizing compounds, genetics, and the history of medicine.
My Ph.D. consists of three parts:
- Experimental screening of production of bacteriocins among isolates belonging to Carnobacterium maltaromaticum.
- Synthetizing and experimental screening of antimicrobial compounds.
- The historical role of target cultures and molecules for antimicrobial R&D in the time period from the 1980s will be examined by archival studies, interviews, and bioinformatics.
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