Miss Lyuboslava Harkova
PhD Student

Summary

Lyuboslava completed her degree in MSci Biomedical Sciences with first class honours from the University of Southampton, UK in 2020. As a master’s student under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Webb she did a project on biofilm formation by strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with natural variants of LasB elastase isolated from Cystic Fibrosis patients. Following on from that she joined the virology group in Bodimed medical diagnostic laboratory in Sofia, Bulgaria testing for SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious viruses. In autumn 2021, Lyuboslava was awarded a PhD studentship to study antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation in Acinetobacter baumannii and is now part of Dr Ronan McCarthy lab at Brunel University London