Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biography
Liselot Dewachter studies fundamental bacterial physiology in the hopes of finding new ways to kill bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant species. She obtained her PhD from the University of Leuven in Belgium where she worked in Prof. Jan Michiels' lab, which focuses on antibiotic tolerance and the development of new antimicrobial therapies. Toward the end of her PhD, she started focusing on essential genes in the bacterium Escherichia coli that can be used as targets for new antibiotics. In collaboration with Inscripta, she uses high-throughput CRISPR editing to map essential amino acid residues in the genes of interest. After finishing her PhD, Dr. Dewachter moved to Switzerland where she is now working as a postdoc in Prof. Jan-Willem Veening's lab. She is still harnessing the power of CRISPR in a genome-wide CRISPRi screen designed to identify important genes in the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.