DrAleksandra Petrovic Fabijan
Adjunct Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Orcid identifier0000-0003-3172-2375 (opens in a new tab)
- Adjunct LecturerFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Phage-bacteria co-evolution and resistance dynamics — how ecological conditions (spatial structure, nutrient limitation, bacterial growth state, community complexity, abiotic stress) shape the molecular basis and trajectory of phage resistance evolution, studied through high-throughput experimental evolution and multi-omics approaches.
- Bacterial adaptive strategies to phage predation — including L-form switching and transitions between resistance modes under selective pressure.
- Predictive modelling of phage–bacteria interactions — development of machine learning frameworks trained on integrated phenotypic and genomic datasets to predict co-evolutionary outcomes under untested conditions.
- Translational phage biology — phage pharmacokinetics during clinical therapy, therapeutic phage monitoring, and diagnostic tools for predicting phage efficacy under infection-relevant conditions.
- Microbial ecology — phage-bacteria dynamics in natural and engineered ecosystems with applications in biocontrol, agriculture, and environmental management.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTStaphylococcus aureus bacteraemia treated with phage therapy to improve outcomes (SABRE-Phi trial)National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jul 2025People funded by this grant:
- Iredell J,
- Snelling TL,
- Khatami A,
- Petrovic Fabijan A