Anuradha Ravi

Biography

Anuradha Ravi interested in studying the microbial communities residing in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals. Her current interests are on understanding the development of the gut microbiota, interactions between the communities and mobile genetic elements (MGE). She completed her PhD in 2017 at the Norwegian University of Life sciences. Her PhD topic was on the characterisation of the infant gut microbiota mobilome. During her PhD years, they characterised MGEs that carry antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of children from Norway, Spain, USA and India longitudinal cohorts. They used a combination of microbiota taxonomy, plasmid reconstruction and biostatistics to attain deeper understanding on the prevalence and persistence of MGEs in complex microbial communities.

Research Interest

Using high throughput sequencing technologies to study the changes in the gut microbiota of humans especially critically-ill patients and in animals