Dr Annapaula Correia

I’m a postdoctoral researcher investigating the antimicrobial capability of protein antibiotics. After obtaining my BSc in Biomedical Science I decided to pursue a career in microbiology and worked as a Research Assistant at University College London. There I investigated the antimicrobial activity of photodynamic therapy and novel catheters embedded with light activated antimicrobials. I then undertook a PhD at the University of East Anglia where I used high-throughput phenomics to link genotype and phenotype, to study antimicrobial resistance, metabolic capability, biofilms and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The aim of my current project is to use population genetics and transposon directed insertion sequencing (TraDIS) to study new protein antibiotics (bacteriocins) along with their import and susceptibility mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae. I am also using machine learning and word embedding based methods to identify new bacteriocins.

Research Interests

Bioinformatics | Genomics | High-throughput mutagenesis | Machine learning | Molecular microbiology | Population biology | Transcriptomics