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SUMMARY:They are talking\, are you listening: Bacterial Communication and 
 Community Behaviour - Rita Monson\, Department of Biochemistry\, Cambridge
  University
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CONTACT:Ryan Prescott Adams
DESCRIPTION:Bacteria use a wide variety of simple signaling molecules to c
 ommunicate both within their own species and with other species around the
 m. Infection progression\, community behaviour\, virulence\, spore formati
 on and bioluminescence (light production) are often controlled by simple c
 hemical signals released by different bacterial species into the environme
 nt. It is easiest to consider these signals as early pheromones. The bacte
 ria sense the number of signaling molecules in their environment and when 
 they sense that their population number has reached a certain 'quorum' the
 y act accordingly\, either by forming spores\, producing light or in the c
 ase of Erwinia\, attacking a plant. \nOur lab uses basic microbiological t
 ools to study this process known as 'quorum sensing' in the plant pathogen
  Erwinia carotovora and in the animal pathogen Serratia marscesans. I aim 
 to focus on the broad themes in 'quorum sensing' and how bacteria are usin
 g chemical signals to ensure successful infections despite our efforts to 
 stop them.\n
LOCATION:Room 911\, Cavendish Laboratory
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