第15回ERATO共生進化機構国際セミナー(共催）
2022年6月14日
微生物バイオフィルムの研究で知られるDr. Knut Drescher（University of Basel, Switzerland）に講演いただきます。
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https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/fukatsu/news/2022/220620.html
Date: 20 June 2022 16:00 (JST)-
Platform: Zoom Meeting
Lecturer: Dr. Knut Drescher（University of Basel, Switzerland）
Title: Unicellular and multicellular stress responses in bacterial biofilms
Abstract:
In nature, bacteria primarily live in surface-attached communities termed biofilms, in which cells are attached to each other through an extracellular matrix. These biofilms represent the most abundant form of biomass on our planet. In this presentation, I will discuss emergent functional benefits of the biofilm community lifestyle, in the context of stress responses of bacteria inside biofilms. I will first introduce new microscopy and image processing techniques that enable us to monitor all individual cells in living biofilms. Based on these techniques, I will then show how we can distinguish stress responses that occur at the single-cell level from stress responses that occur at the multicellular level. For the response of biofilms to antibiotics, and the response to starvation, I will discuss in detail the mechanisms of the biofilm-specific multicellular stress response. From these measurements can draw conclusions for how antibiotic tolerance emerges in biofilms, and we provide new treatment avenues for infections in which antibiotic therapy is currently not successful.
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #15（第15回ERATO共生進化機構国際セミナー）
Sponsored by ERATO FUKATSU Evolving Symbiosis Project
主催：ERATO深津共生進化機構プロジェクト
https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/fukatsu/
Co-sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Post-Koch Ecology”
共催：新学術領域研究「ポストコッホ生態」
https://postkoch.jp/
Co-sponsored by Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba
共催：筑波大学微生物サステイナビリティ研究センター（MiCS）
https://www.mics.tsukuba.ac.jp/
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