Ifra Ferheen is a Ph.D. candidate at the National Institue of Health Rome and University of Camerino

Her Ph.D. research work is focused on the effect of global environmental changes on aquatic ecosystems and human health in environments under specific anthropic pressures, evaluation of the spread of emerging and re-emerging pathogenic microorganisms, and monitoring of the resistome induced by antibiotics through the use of molecular methods in a simulated environment.

Her role in BlueAdapt aims to investigate the effects of climatic changes on coastal pathogens and develop a comprehensive conceptual framework to understand the multiple dimensions of this impact.

Main Research line: Environmental Microbiology, Aquatic Ecosystem, One-Health, Multi-drug resistance bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Plasmid.