When:
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Hughes Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Cynthia Naugles
(312) 503-0489
Group: Department of Microbiology-Immunology Seminars/Events
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Targeting Tuberculosis Adaptive (Mis)Translation as an Anti-Virulence Strategy
Speaker: Babak Javid, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine, UCSF
Topic:
Rather than purely performing essential housekeeping functions, regulation of the protein synthesis machinery in bacterial pathogens contributes to critical adaptive functions. I will discuss how regulation of the stochastic error rate in protein synthesis in mycobacteria contributes to both antibiotic and host tolerance and potential ways to target this conserved pathway.
Host: M.-N. Frances Yap, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology-Immunology