Egija Zaura PhD, DDS

Egija Zaura (1971) will be ap­pointed as URC pro­fes­sor in Oral Mi­cro­bial Ecol­ogy at ACTA, at the de­part­ment of Pre­ven­tive Den­tistry. The focus of her re­search is on un­der­stand­ing the processes that steer ac­qui­si­tion of a healthy mi­cro­biome and that sus­tain the main­te­nance of oral health. She is also in­ter­ested in the link be­tween oral and sys­temic health.

Within a re­cent EU-pro­ject she and her col­leagues found that a sin­gle an­tibi­otic dose did not af­fect the oral ecosys­tem, while it had a long-last­ing eco­log­i­cal im­pact on the mi­cro­biome of the gut. Her clin­i­cal back­ground in den­tistry and her ex­per­tise in oral mi­cro­bial ecol­ogy and bioin­for­mat­ics pro­vide a unique basis for her in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary re­search. She is an in­ter­na­tion­ally renowned ex­pert in the field of mi­cro­bial ecol­ogy.