Rate My Professor Attika Rehman

Dr. Attika Rehman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, at the University of Otago. She holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Otago, where she completed her doctoral thesis in 2020 entitled "Evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa," under the supervision of Professor Iain Lamont. Her career includes doctoral research and postdoctoral work in the Department of Biochemistry at Otago before transitioning to her current position in Microbiology and Immunology. Rehman's research centers on the molecular basis of infectious diseases, with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms driving antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens. She investigates gene-gene interactions, genomic adaptations, and protein functions that confer resistance to antibiotics like ciprofloxacin and ceftazidime, aiming to identify novel targets for combating drug-resistant infections. Her studies span molecular microbiology, bacterial genomics, protein-protein interactions, and molecular ecology, contributing to strategies against life-threatening pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Listeria monocytogenes.