Evette is currently undertaking a PhD study at The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) and The University of Warwick where she investigates the role of the gut microbiome in patients with Bile Acid Diarrhoea (formerly Bile Acid Malabsorption). This work is carried out primarily under the supervision of Dr Gregory Amos as well as Dr Sjoerd Rijpkema, Prof. Dr. Ramesh Arasaradnam of Warwick Medical School and the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire, and Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Wellington of the University of Warwick.
Evette obtained a master’s degree in Molecular Life Sciences from the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena (Germany) during which she analysed the microbiome of ground meat from Sus scrofa domesticus (domesticated pig) intended for cooked and raw consumption. She was supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Saluz at the Hans Knöll Institut where she achieved the highest grade of 1.0 for her project module.
Evette Hillman obtained a bachelor’s in Biological Science with Industrial Experience from University of Reading in the United Kingdom during which she spent one semester at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Nairobi (Kenya) and one semester at the Universität Leipzig (Germany) working in medical research laboratories. She achieved a 1st class grade for her final year project ‘Investigation of biofilm formingcapabilities in Escherichia coli O157:H7 and its interaction with plants’ supervised by Prof. Dr. Robert Jackson.