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Alejandro Gil Gomez, a PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, conducts research on the evolution of natural antibiotics in prokaryotes. His work centers around the evolution of antibiotics, the origination and distribution of biosynthetic gene clusters within genomes and the evolution of molecular targets.

Dissertation title: The Epic Evolution of Antibiotics: Unraveling Bacterial Weaponry and Genomic Adaptations