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SUMMARY:The amazing world of bacteria: why it matters!
DESCRIPTION:Professor Stephen Busby\, University of Birmingham \n\n\n\nBacteria generally receive a ‘bad press’\, and most folk only think about them when they or a familymember suffers from an infection. Surveys find that people are unaware that the vast majority ofbacteria are completely harmless\, and that many are positively beneficial to human life. The bestexplanation for this apathy is that the general public doesn’t grasp that bacteria were present onearth long before humans\, and that humans evolved in a ‘sea’ of bacteria. Hence\, in the first part ofmy presentation\, I will give a very brief overview of how life on earth is thought to have evolved\,and the essential role of microbes in general\, and bacteria in particular. Bioscientists arefascinated by how molecules act together to generate life\, and I will explain how bacteria makegreat case studies\, and argue that humans today may well need help from bacteria to resolvecurrent intractable problems. \n\n\n\nIn the second part of the presentation\, I will focus on the small number of bacteria that areharmful to human health and explain why they evolved. Over the past century\, antibiotics havegiven humans the ‘upper hand’ in their struggle against these bacteria\, but we now know that thebacteria are fighting back with the spread of genes that encode resistance. I will explain why thisis to be expected in the context of evolution\, and tell you about some alternatives for fightingbacterial infections that don’t rely on the use of antibiotics.
URL:https://www.leamingtoncafesci.org/event/the-amazing-world-of-bacteria-why-it-matters/
LOCATION:St Patricks Irish Club\, 4 Adelaide Road\, Leamington Spa\, CV31 3PW
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