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Dr Qinxi Ma
Postdoctoral research fellow
Geoffrey Pope 328
Geoffrey Pope Building, University of Exeter , Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK
Office hours: 9:00-17:00
Overview
I am originally from Beijing, China. I did my PhD in Infection Biology at Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research at UCD under supervision of Prof. Geraldine Butler to investigate novel antifungal agents against Candida species. After finishing my PhD, I moved to Belgium in early 2019, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Functional Biology Lab at KU Leuven to decipher the importance of vacuole-mitochondria communication in the yeast models for Parkinson’s disease. I joined the lab of Prof. Alistair Brown in February 2020 as a postdoctoral research fellow to study the molecular mechanisms that mediates Candida albicans adaption to host niches.
Qualifications
PhD in Infection Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland
MSc in Biotechnology, University College Dublin, Ireland
BSc in Bioengineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Career
02/2020-present Postdoctoral research fellow, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, UK
04/2019-01/2020 Postdoctoral researcher, Functional Biology Lab, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Research
Research interests
I am interested in studying how the pathogen Candida albicans causes deadly infections in humans, with particular focus on the adaption to different environmental stresses of this fungus within the host.