Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 27th June 2012
  • Speaker: Sam Brown (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

In this talk I will give an overview of work in the lab on bacterial social life, with a focus bacterial communication via 'quorum-sensing' (QS). I will discuss the functional significance of the use of multiple signals in many QS systems, and whether drugs targeting QS can live up to claims of being 'evolution proof' therapeutics.