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Irina graduated from Saint-Petersburg Technological University (Russia) in 2010 with engineer degree in biotechnology and spent few years in St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute working with antibiotic resistant bacteria. She then moved to Singapore and pursued her PhD in Kimberly Kline’s lab studying relationship between enterococcal adhesins. In 2018 Irina joined SMART AMR-IRG under Timothy Lu and Kimberly Kline supervision as a postdoc.

Dr Afonina’s work at AMR IRG involves developing combiGEM-CRISPRi technology in Enterococcus faecalis to target biofilm-associated infections.