Dr. Sheeba Santhini Manoharan-Basil earned her M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Microbiology in India before completing her Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Iceland, where she specialized in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. Her interdisciplinary background includes early work on lichen symbiosis, the discovery of new lichen species Peltigera islandica, and systems biology of microalgae, followed by a transition to clinical AMR research. She is currently a Scientific Fellow in Prof. Chris Kenyon's unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, where she focuses on advancing AMR mitigation strategies. Her research investigates antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic tolerance, and horizontal gene transfer, utilizing a range of methods including genomics, transcriptomics, shotgun metagenomics, and molecular microbiology approaches.