Professor Al Brown's group studies the pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans. Candida normally lives in our gut, doing us no harm. However, it is also the cause of common infections such as thrush, and the cause of life-threatening infections in intensive care patients.
Our aim is to understand what makes this yeast so adept at switching from a harmless component of our microbiota into an aggressive cause of infection. In part this is because Candida is able to rapidly tune its own physiology to different niches within our bodies.
This work is important because the more we know about how Candida adapts to the different stresses inside us, the better able we will be to block those adaptive processes and design smart therapies that prevent Candida infections.
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