Friederike-Leonie Born
Friederike-Leonie Born
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-BSSE
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Research area
Due to the rapid increase in bacterial resistance, it is important to understand how resistance emerges in bacterial populations. As a PhD student in the Bioanalytics Group at ETH Zürich, funded by the NCCR Antiresist, my research focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms that mimic bacterial infections in the human body. By combining microfluidics with time-lapse microscopy and microbiology, the behavior of pathogenic bacteria during transient drug administration is analyzed and different drugs are tested. The project contributes to the knowledge of how different dosing regimens and antibiotic gradients affect antibiotic resistance and persistence of clinically relevant pathogenic bacteria.
02/2021 - Present
Doctoral student as part of the NCCR Antiresist in the Bioanalytics group at Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
05/2020 - 01/2021
Research associate in a Biosafety project for zoonoses risk management at the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Germany
04/2020 - 08/2022
Module Studies in Bioprocess Engineering, Brewing and Beverage Technology at TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany
05/2017 - 04/2020
M. Sc. Biology/Biotechnology (with distinction) at TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany
Master thesis: "Development of a specific detection method for Yersinia pestis based on bacteriophage proteins" at the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (PD Gregor Grass) and HelmholtzZentrum München (Prof. Dr. Michael Schloter), Germany
09/2018 - 03/2019
Erasmus+ scholarship, Máster en Biología Celular y Molecular at Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
10/2013 - 05/2017
B. Sc. Biology at TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany
Bachelor thesis: "Production of wine vinegar with Kozakia baliensis" at the Chair of Technical Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Rudi Vogel), Technical University Munich, Germany
Internships
03/2018 - 05/2018
Research internship food microbiology and food hygiene at the Central Institute for Nutrition and Food Research (ZIEL) / Chair of Microbial Ecology (Prof. Dr. Siegfried Scherer), Technical University Munich, Germany
03/2016 - 04/2016
Research internship Organismic and Molecular Microbiology at the Chair of Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Liebl), Technical University Munich, Germany