Dr Alejandra Zarate-Potes
Visiting ResearcherResearch Overview
In my research I study how interactions between animals and microbes work and evolve, how they influence each other’s health and the conditions that lead to disease. I do this by using the nematode model Caenorhabditis elegans and its naturally associated bacteria, as well as bacterial pathogens that cause infection. To understand host-microbe interactions I combine multiomics (transcriptomics, proteomics and targeted metabolomics) with genetic (mutants, RNAi) and phenotypic (microscopy, survival, bacterial load, fitness) analyses. I am currently working on the research grant (BBSRC: BB/S017127/1) awarded to Dr. Alex Benedetto to map the genetic network that governs worm gut-bacteria interactions.
Brazil-UK Partnership: New Bioactives for a Healthy Gut, targeting the gut microbiota
01/06/2022 → 31/05/2025
Research
Resolving the ‘dual-extraction bottleneck’ in transcriptomics for a deep understanding of host-microbe interactions
29/11/2021 → 29/11/2022
Research
Integrated Multiomics of Host-bacteria Interactions during C. elegans Gut Infections
01/01/1900 → …
Research
FURNESS STEM SHOW 2023
Other
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science