Magdalena Piatek

Biography:

Magdalena Piatek studied Biological and Biomedical Sciences in Maynooth University, graduating with a BSc in 2019. She worked with Prof. Kevin Kavanagh in the Medical Mycology Laboratory as part of her undergraduate research project: ‘Analysis of the effects of Aspergillus fumigatus supernatant on the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa’. Her PhD on the ‘Evaluation of novel antimicrobial agents for use in treating drug resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens’ commenced in 2019. She has conducted numerous collaborations with Chemistry research groups in various institutions analysing novel antimicrobials, with a focus on metal-based drugs. She has presented at several microbiology and inorganic chemistry conferences and has eight publications to date.