Since I was child, I knew that I wanted to work on healthcare-related subjects, so after an intense search, I found the career that best suited my interests, Health Biology. Of all the subjects that I took, microbiology was always the one that spurred most my interest, since it allowed me to understand everything from the most basic physiological processes to the reason underlying treatment failure. I hence decided to continue training in this field, so my first professional contact with a laboratory was dedicated to the search for new antibiotics during my TFG. I then did my Master in Microbiology and Public Health from the Carlos III Health Institute, focusing more on the molecular aspects of microbiology, and later with a research assistant scholarship with Dr. Puccarelli at the National Center for Biotechnology. During this last stay I worked on the role of small RNAs in the regulation of different processes, such as antibiotic resistance, a field that I like especially. Given that currently one of the biggest problems is the horizontal transmission of resistance genes by mobile genetic elements, it feel it is a great opportunity to be able to carry out my PhD in the MBA laboratory studying the evolutionary dynamics of resistance genes in integrons among clinically relevant bacteria.
