Xiangning Bai

Dr. Bai received her Ph.D. in 2016. She is a bacteriologist whose main research focuses are i) diagnostics, characterization and pathogenic mechanisms of enteric bacterial pathogens, especially pathogenic Escherichia coli; ii) human gut and respiratory microbiome in correlation to infectious diseases, including HIV and COVID-19; iii) identification and characterization of novel microbial species and emerging pathogens. A novel bacterial species Mycolicibacterium baixiangningiae is named after Dr. Bai. She joined us as a postdoctoral researcher in 2019 when she focused on microbiome in infectious diseases and is now guest researcher since 2021 on microbiome in infectious diseases, while being employed as a research scientist by Oslo University Hospital, Norway.