PhD Student Agatha is a PhD student on the Wellcome Trust One Health Models of Disease programme. She is working on host–pathogen interactions using bovine mammary organoids as part of a collaborative project between the Roslin Institute and the Moredun Research Institute.She completed her undergraduate degree in Microbiology at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, where her final project explored nasopharyngeal carriage and antimicrobial resistance of Haemophilus influenzae in HIV patients in Jakarta.Agatha then completed a master’s degree in bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow, focusing on single-cell RNA-seq deconvolution and spatial transcriptomics. She continued working as a research assistant in Juan F. Quintana and Prof. Anette MacLeod’s group. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a senior research assistant on a zoonotic malaria project in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Outside the lab, Agatha enjoys both quiet time at home and outdoor adventures, from wild swimming to exploring the Scottish Highlands. This article was published on 2026-06-01
