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Dr Margarida Castro Gomes Spencer

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Dr Margarida Castro Gomes Spencer

School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is driven by microorganisms, such as bacteria, evolving mechanisms to resist antibiotics (also called antimicrobials), threatening modern medicine by making it harder to treat infections. As the current antibiotics are becoming ineffective and the search for new ones has its challenges, we need to find innovative ways to tackle the problem of AMR. My research aims to boost the natural infection-fighting abilities of innate immune cells — our body’s first responders nto infection — so we can rely less on antibiotics. To mimic the complex immune responses, we use zebrafish larvae to model host-pathogen interactions during infection.

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