Spying on the Enemy: Using Bacteria to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

This webinar will be hosted live and available on-demand

Thursday, October 10th, 2024
9:30 - 11:00 AM ET 

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise and has the potential to devastate communities worldwide. To reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance, researchers must expand their understanding of how bacteria acquire resistance and devise innovative approaches to address this global health crisis. 

In this webinar brought to you by The Scientist, Stineke van Houte and Simon Moore will discuss how they designed bacteria-based systems using synthetic biology tools and employed these strategies to examine and alter antimicrobial resistance development.

Topics to be covered

• Engineering a conjugative plasmid to carry a CRISPR-based system and using this tool to remove antimicrobial resistance genes from microbial communities 
• Developing a cell-free gene expression system from Klebsiella pneumoniae to screen antimicrobials and study laboratory-evolved resistance mechanisms

Stineke van Houte Professor and Principal Investigator Environment and Sustainability Institute University of Exeter

Simon Moore Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences Queen Mary University of London