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SUMMARY:Exploiting bacteriophages for bioscience\, biotechnology and medic
 ine  - Professor George Salmond\, University of Cambridge\, UK
DTSTART:20140123T090000Z
DTEND:20140123T170000Z
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:Bacteriophages (phages) are arguably the most abundant biologi
 cal entities on the planet. They play crucial roles in driving the adaptiv
 e evolution of their bacterial hosts\, and achieve this both through the p
 redator-prey roles of the phage-bacterium interaction and through the adap
 tive impacts of lysogeny and lysogenic conversion.  Bacteriophages are the
  source of many biochemical reagents and technologies\, indispensible for 
 modern molecular biology.  Furthermore\, phages are being exploited in oth
 er areas of biotechnology\, including diagnostics\, prophylaxis and other 
 aspects of food microbiology. In recent years there has been a growing int
 erest in developing phages for therapeutic purposes (phage therapy) as nat
 ural alternatives to antibiotics. The inexorable rise in the incidence of 
 antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens\, coupled with the disappoint
 ingly low rate of emergence of new\, clinically useful antibiotics\, has r
 efocused attention on the potential utility of phages for treating human a
 nd animal disease. Examples of the roles of phages in fundamental biologic
 al research and in medical and industrial biotechnologies will be discusse
 d at this meeting. On registration you will be able to submit your questio
 ns to the panel that will be asked by the chair on the day of the event\n\
 nwww.regonline.co.uk/bacteriophage2014
LOCATION:Cineworld: The O2\, Peninsula Square\, London\, SE10 0DX
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