Seminario 16/03/2026: "Environmental dimension of antibiotic resistances: plasmids as major connectors between human, animal and environmental bacteria"

Seminario Extraordinario 2026

Título: "Environmental dimension of antibiotic resistances: plasmids as major connectors between human, animal and environmental bacteria"

Disertante: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c Kornelia Smalla - Julius Kühn-Institute Braunschweig, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Germany

Resumen:

Plasmids are assumed to play a central role in bacterial evolution and adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Despite the important role of plasmids, our present understanding of plasmid ecology and how and where the acquisition of genes conferring resistances to antibiotics, disinfectants and metal-compounds occurs and the environmental triggers remain scarce. In my talk I will present insights from studying plasmid ecology for more than thirty years. A critical assessment of the tools used to study plasmids in different environments will be provided.

Los esperamos el próximo lunes 16 de marzo a las 12.30h en el aula del piso 13 de nuestra facultad