University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Ivana Gudelj is a Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology and a co-Head of Biosciences Department at the University of Exeter. Her research combines mathematical and experimental methodologies to understand competition, cooperation and coevolution amongst microorganisms. By developing approaches that bring together systems biology into a population level framework her work strives to quantify how microbial community composition is determined by the metabolism, genetics and physiology of individual players. The research focuses on fungal model organisms (Lindsay et al Nature Communications 2024; Lindsay et al Nature Ecology and Evolution 2019) as well as fungal pathogens of both plants (Lindsay et al Ecology Letters 2023; Lindsay et al eLife 2016) and humans (Beardmore et al Nature Ecology and Evolution 2018). This is important for solving fundamental problems in evolutionary biology including the evolution of diversity, virulence and antimicrobial resistance.
Professor Gudelj holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bath, UK and has over the years held academic positions at the University of Bath, Imperial College London and University of Exeter. Her research funding has come from diverse sources including Natural Environment Research Council UK (Postdoctoral Fellowship, Advanced Fellowship), the Leverhulme trust, ERC (Consolidator grant), National Science Foundation US, Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council UK and industry.
Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance
