Anna Dragos’ overarching research concentrates on the deep understanding of ecological and evolutionary factors that influence bacterial reproduction and survival with special emphasis on bacterial viruses, called phages. As a member of Microbiology Chair (Department of Food, Science and Technology) she is heading a research project founded by ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency) focusing on host control by phage. She and her team investigate the extent to which temperate phages alter the behaviour of their bacterial host and what the molecular mechanisms and evolutionary forces behind host control by phages are. She graduated from Biotechnology at the University of Wroclaw (Poland) in 2009, defended her PhD thesis in 2014 at the University of Ljubljana, and spent several years abroad as a postdoctoral fellow funded by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) and H.C. Oersted fellowship (Technical University of Denmark). Besides building up an independent research group, she reviews for research journals, serves as a guest lecturer in courses, serves as a member of various international committees, organizes conferences, supports early career researchers and organizes local research events.
