Francisca Monteiro

Motivated by a desire to work with persister cells and contribute with solutions to the challenge of antibiotic resistance, I secured a postdoc fellowship from FCT and joined the Genomics and Evolutionary Ecology of Microorganisms group at cE3c. My current research interests focus on antibiotic resistance and cooperation among bacterial communities. I aim to disclose how persister cells act as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance development, a matter of controversial debate. For that, I combine experimental analyses with mathematical modeling efforts, expertise that I gained during my previous works, and study antibiotic resistance evolution at the population level.