Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl is a scientist in immunology with a background in immunoregulation by mesenchymal stem cells, epigenetic modulation of hematopoietic stem cell expansion, and mucosal and systemic immune responses to H. pylori in mice and pigs. She pursued postdoctoral studies in NIMML. Since January 2016 she is working in Prof. Susie Dunachie’s Tropical immunology group on immune correlates of survival during acute melioidosis, a neglected tropical disease caused by the Gram- bacterium B. pseudomallei. Diabetes is the most prominent risk factor for getting this disease, therefore she is specifically interested in the metabolic changes in immune cells of diabetics that might account for their susceptibility to infection.