Junior Editorial Board

Fatima obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology from the NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal, where she investigated the molecular bases of pathogenesis of the gut pathogen Clostridioides difficile. This motivated her to better understand how resident microbes modulate resistance to infection, and she then moved to the University of Vienna, Austria, with a Marie-SkLodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate mechanisms of microbiota-mediated colonisation resistance. As a Senior Postdoctoral fellow, Fatima secured major funding from the Austrian Science Fund to investigate the mechanisms through which the microbiomes of mammals and other vertebrates modulate gut inflammation, nutrition, and growth. In August 2022 she moved to the University of Southampton, UK, as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor where she established her research group. Her current research combines single-cell activity methods, molecular biology and omics to investigate how diet and medication shape the function of the gut microbiome. She serves as Editor and Reviewer in different journals in the fields of microbiology, systems microbiology, and microbial ecology.

Gut microbiome, Drug-microbiome interactions, Clostridioides difficile, Colonization resistance, Microbe-microbe interactions