Wednesday Nite @ the Lab
"Fighting Antibiotic Resistance with Broken Scissors"
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time
7 p.m.
Location
Description
Speaker: Jason Peters
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens are directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the United States each year, and the problem is growing worse over time because we have not been able to find new weaknesses in pathogens that we can target with antibiotics. I am developing CRISPR-based strategies to identify such weaknesses by probing genes that are central to bacterial life on a massive scale.
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens are directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the United States each year, and the problem is growing worse over time because we have not been able to find new weaknesses in pathogens that we can target with antibiotics. I am developing CRISPR-based strategies to identify such weaknesses by probing genes that are central to bacterial life on a massive scale.
Cost
Free
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