Fall 2021 Bioengineering Seminars
Wednesdays, Noon – 1:00 PM
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“Why isn’t antibiotic resistance worse? And what can we learn from that?“
Michael Baym
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
Abstract:
Antibiotic resistance is considered a defining challenge of our time, however simple stories we tell of its evolution fail to predict the population genetic features we observe. So what else is selecting on resistance? In this talk I’ll talk about several directions my laboratory is taking that stem from and address this question. We’ll discuss discovery of new phages that both select against resistance genes and their horizontal transfer mechanisms, explore genomic robustness over evolution, and show how evolutionary insight can teach us how to build better diagnostics.
Upcoming seminars
Don’t miss our annual Distinguished Lecture in Bioengineering featuring Andres Garcia from Georgia Tech, April 13 2022, and Rising Star Lecture, Fei Chen of the Broad Institute, March 16, 2022.
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