Isabel Gordo

Isabel Gordo is a principal investigator at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal. She graduated in Physics and received a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. Her Postdoctoral research was carried out at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência where she then became leader of the Evolutionary Biology group in 2004. In 2010 she won an ERC Starting Grant and in 2015 a FCT Investigator Consolidator Grant and in 2023 an ERC Advanced Grant. She founded the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology, was elected EMBO member in 2017 and EAM member in 2020.

Gordo’s Lab current research combines theoretical and empirical methods aiming at a better understanding of the major forces that shape diversity of bacteria and their resistance levels in the context of the gut microbiome. The team uses Escherichia coli as a model organism of bacteria and mice as a host model system.