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A Journey Around the Globe – How Microbes Can Provide Drugs to Combat Diseases
September 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series returns for the fall on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 6 p.m. with the program titled “A Journey Around the Globe – How Microbes Can Provide Drugs to Combat Diseases”. Dr. Sandra Loesgen, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory, will be the speaker.
Microorganisms provide a large amount of the current drugs. Especially among the antibiotics and anti-cancer treatments, over 65% of our clinical treatments were directly derived or inspired from microbes.
In this lecture, Dr. Loesgen will give a background on microbial chemical warfare or the chemical language of microbes, illustrate their impact on human health, and connect to ongoing microbial explorations in the Loesgen Lab at Whitney (and many labs worldwide) with stories from microbes sampled worldwide.
She will take you on a journey around the globe on their drug hunt. Global microbiomes are an exquisite source for interesting and useful chemicals, we need to protect them.
