Magdalena currently provides support within CL3 suite as a laboratory manager and a CL3 training coordinator. Her previous experience includes managing Schedule 5 laboratory and carrying out research as part of her Scientific Officer role since joining LSHTM in 2019.
She has extensive work experience with infectious agents under biosafety containment levels 2 and 3. This has been acquired through postdoctoral placements at the University of Southampton on Neisseria meningitidis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and her Ph.D. studies on Listeria at the University of Edinburgh and a current placement at LSHTM working with mycobacteria and Shigella spp.
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Research
Magdalena's main research interests focus on host-pathogen interactions.
One of her previous contributions included developing a novel 3-dimensional model system for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) by using the bioelectrospraying technique, which incorporates extracellular matrix (ECM), Mtb and different human cells to form an in vitro granuloma model system, when she joined Professor Paul Elkington’s lab in 2013 at the University of Southampton. Using this approach, she studied the factors that control the secretion of cytokines and metalloproteinases (MMPs) as well as the role of ECM in regulating the host-pathogen interaction. She also investigated the effect of antibiotics on Mtb killing using the 3-D model and studied multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in the context of the host.
In 2019-2022, working with Professor Serge Mostowy at LSHTM, Magdalena was involved in several research projects, in which she investigated host-pathogen interactions using zebrafish model of infection.
