We are excited to welcome Julián Ovis Sánchez to our research group. Julián is a PhD student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His PhD project focuses on the removal of antibiotic-resistant genes in domestic wastewater using microalgae-bacteria based systems as an economy and feasibly alternative for low-to-iddle income countries. While at Newcastle University, Julián will collaborate to the AMRflows project for six months, with a focus on the start-up and operation of bioreactors for studying plasmid transfer in Indian rivers under different cell densities.