Hanieh Shakeri, PhD studentDid you know that bacteria can talk to each other? My background was in evaluating the impact of the co-culture technique (the addition of other bacterial species to pure culture to see how they affect each other) on the antibiotic production of Streptomyces species. I completed both my master's and bachelor's degrees in Iran.
Now I want to learn more about microbial communities and the impact of different factors such as seasonal changes that have on microbial communities. My PhD project focuses on studying the long-term dynamics of microbial communities in a drinking water treatment plant. A combination of exciting techniques including 16S/18S rRNA sequencing along with flow cytometry and qPCR will be used in this project to investigate what is going on in water at different stages of the treatment process. I am also into reading, hiking, and photography :) |