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SUMMARY:CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE. - Helen Leggett (University o
 f Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Stephen Montgomery
DESCRIPTION:Novel testing of parasite virulence evolution theory\n\nIn an 
 increasingly post antibiotic era where parasite evolution is outpacing our
  capacity to develop new cures\, to tackle AMR\, I argue we cant keep thro
 wing medicine at it\, we need to understand it. And crucially we need to i
 dentify common factors in the evolution of the harm parasites cause their 
 hosts (termed virulence) to give us more predictive power and therefore th
 e opportunity to develop evolution-prrof management strategies. I am broad
 ly interested in social evolution and virulence in parasites\, and I will 
 firstly discuss my experimental evolution work with bacteriophage that tes
 ts fundamental virulence-transmission trade-off theory. Secondly\, as a ne
 w lecturer in the department\, I’d like to take this opportunity to floa
 t my new research ideas for studying virulence evolution in real-time in c
 omplex microbial communities (such as the gut)\, where currently we have l
 ittle idea about how virulence evolves in these co-evolutionary arm-races.
LOCATION:Canceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused
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