Ali Salehi

Ali Salehi is an M.Sc. student in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia whose research combines automated microbiology, machine learning, and structural modelling to combat antimicrobial resistance. Through a Mitacs-supported collaboration with Amphoraxe Life Sciences, he is building an end-to-end robotic workflow that examines how bacteria evolve resistance to novel antimicrobial peptides over time. By pairing high-throughput growth assays with computational analyses of peptide structures and genomic signatures of resistance, Ali aims to identify features that slow or prevent resistance, ultimately accelerating the development of new antimicrobial therapies.