Science for the Public www.scienceforthepublic.org March 26, 2019. Gautam Dantas, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Dantas explains the innovative technical and biological approaches of the Dantas Lab toward a solution to antibiotic resistance, including a possible cure for MRSA, a particularly deadly staph infection.
 
📑Articles referenced on this Microbial Minutes. 👍 Subscribe to ASM's YouTube channel at https://goo.gl/mOVHlK Crook N. et al. Adaptive Strategies of the Candidate Probiotic E. coli Nissle in the Mammalian Gut. Cell Host & Microbe. March 26 2019.
 
Microbiologist Gautam Dantas, PhD, explains how probiotics - living bacteria taken to promote digestive health - can evolve inside the body and have the potential to become less effective. Video by Mark Hallett, Huy Mach, Gaia Remerowski/Washington University School of Medicine.
 

Combating Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs across Diverse Habitats

 

 

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Science in St. Louis | Dr. Gautam Dantas Fighting Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Across Diverse Habitats December 1, 2016 - 7:00pm St. Louis County Library, Weber Road Branch Science in St. Louis is a seminar series designed to connect people with scientists in their community.
 
 
Featured Speaker: Gautam Dantas, Ph.D., 2015 Outstanding St. Louis Scientist Innovation Award recipient, The Academy of Science of St. Louis; and Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine Disease-causing bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to all available antibiotics, causing approximately 23,000 deaths and costing the U.S., $35 billion each year.
 

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Where's My Jetpack? is a new forum hosted by WU ProSPER to explore the technical and practical boundaries between scientific research and innovation. In this talk, WU professor Dr. Gautam Dantas helps explain the role of microbial reservoirs in the effort to understand antibiotic resistance.