CMBI student, Vera Pader, wins prize for best poster

by Andrew Edwards

Vera Pader

Members of the Edwards group L to R: Vera Pader, Kam Po Ha, Dr Andrew Edwards

Congratulations to Vera Pader for winning the prize for best poster at the recent Division of Infectious Diseases PhD student symposium.

Vera has just started the second year of her PhD in the laboratory of Dr Andrew Edwards. Her poster entitled ‘Characterisation of a cryptic daptomycin-resistance mechanism in Staphylococcus aureus’ detailed new findings on the link between quorum-sensing and the susceptibility of MRSA to daptomycin, an antibiotic of last resort.

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Andrew Edwards

Department of Infectious Disease