Well, I moved from Argentina five years ago, so I have been teaching for almost five years. I teach microbiology, mainly different courses of microbiology. Mainly I’m teaching about how we can combat and how we can use microbes in different forms, and also how important they are in public health. I really am very passionate in what I do in my research lab. Because as part of teaching classes, I have a research lab, and I try to share that passion that I have for these little, tiny microbes to my students in my classes, and tell them the importance of these microbes, how we can study them and how amazing they are and how they surprise us every single day. So what I’m trying to give to the students is those tools that they need if they want to later go to the school of medicine or pursue a career that is related with the health sciences, the importance of these microbes and the impact that they are having now in our lives, mainly related with all of these problems that we are facing today about antimicrobial resistance. My idea is always to try to generate a friendly environment where the students can learn and join the topic that we are discussing that day.
Titans of Academia: María Soledad Ramírez
Meet antibiotic-resistance researcher María Soledad Ramírez, associate professor of biological science, who focuses on the dissemination and evolution of deadly bacterial pathogens. She is co-author of 101 peer-reviewed journal articles and has delivered more than 180 research presentations at scientific meetings. The Argentinian native, who joined the University in 2014, is the recipient of the American Society for Microbiology’s Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Young Investigator Award. She earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Buenos Aires.
