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Leverage a Large Actinobacterial Strain Collection for Natural Products and Drug Discovery

School of Pharmacy welcomes University of Florida Professor Ben Shen for the 2022 C. Richard Hutchinson Lecture

Event Details

Date
Friday, October 7, 2022
Time
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Location
Description
- Ben Shen, PhD, of the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Medicine, and Natural Products Discovery Center at University of Florida Scripps Biomedical Research.

The Natural Products Discovery Center houses one of the world’s largest actinobacterial strain collections. Dr. Shen has launched a large-scale genome sequencing campaign to create a database, which together with the strains, will be made available to the scientific community to enable natural product studies and drug discovery.
Cost
Free

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