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SUMMARY:Antimicrobial resistance: a global threat (panel event) - Professo
 r Julian Parkhill\, Dr Esmita Charani\, Dr David Summers\, Dr Hendrik van 
 Veen
DTSTART:20181113T183000Z
DTEND:20181113T200000Z
UID:TALK114841@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:71989
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week to hear f
 rom a panel of experts about the global threat posed to modern medicine by
  antimicrobial resistance - that is\, the development resistance of bacter
 ia\, viruses\, fungi and parasites to drugs - and emerging strategies for 
 solving it.\n\nOur speakers for the panel are:\n\nProfessor Julian Parkhil
 l is the Head of Infection Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  and uses genomic approaches to understand the evolution of pathogenic bac
 teria on short and long timescales\, including the evolution of antibiotic
  resistance. \n\nDr Esmita Charani is the Senior Lead Pharmacist in the fa
 culty of Medicine at Imperial College London at the NIHR Health Protection
  Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resi
 stance. She is also a visiting Researcher at Amrita Institute of Medical S
 ciences in India\, where she is involved in helping implement and investig
 ate national antibiotic stewardship programmes.\n\nDr David Summers is a g
 roup leader in the Department of Genetics with a focus on bacterial plasmi
 ds - small genetic elements which frequently confer antibiotic resistance 
 - and how they are retained and transmitted in bacterial populations.\n\nD
 r Hendrik van Veen is a group leader in the Department of Pharmacology wit
 h a focus on molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria\, i
 ncluding multidrug transporters.\n\nEach speaker will give a brief present
 ation followed by open questions for the panel. There will then be refresh
 ments available in the Central Hall where you can meet the panelists and a
 sk more questions.
LOCATION:Lightfoot room old divinity school\, St. Johns College\, Cambridg
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