Odessa Van Goethem

The paper identifies and characterizes new hybrid peptide-polyketide-specialized lipid biosynthesis pathways in bacteria, revealing novel metabolites with functional properties.

This study shows that the ATO gene family in Candida albicans is essential for acetate uptake and gut colonization, highlighting its role in fungal adaptation to the gut environment.

This study identifies trehalose as a mediator of fluconazole tolerance in C. glabrata by altering sterol composition, showing that trehalose deficiency reduces drug tolerance.