Serena Caucci is a Research Assistant in the Waste Management Unit at UNU-FLORES. She works on academic and capacity development activities in waste management aspects within the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus, supports the process of research product development, and contributes to the ongoing capacity development work related to multi-stakeholder projects such as the Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture (SUWA). Before joining UNU-FLORES, Serena worked at the Institute of Hydrobiology at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) on water sanitation and antibiotic resistance in anthropogenic-driven environments. She received her Master in Environmental Science from the University of Florence in Italy and is writing her PhD thesis on environmental microbiology (wastewater management and waterbody pollution by antibiotic resistance) at TU Dresden in Germany.
Superbugs evolve in waste water, and could end up in our food
Sep 22, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Science
We are heading into a post-antibiotic era, where common infections could once again be deadly. A phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance threatens the heart of modern medicine. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when...
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