Antibiotic resistant bacteria are threatening modern society by making antibiotics obsolete. Dr. Nizet is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD, as well as the faculty lead for the UCSD Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes (CHARM). His laboratory studies how the human immune system interacts with microbial pathogens, with particular focus on antibiotic resistant bacteria and how to treat them.
Dr. Nizet discusses how his training as a physician helps drive the research in his laboratory, how repurposing therapeutic drugs could help fight antimicrobial resistance, how taking advantage of host immune responses can enhance the treatment of infectious diseases, how the success of modern medicine is training some bacteria to become pathogenic, how nanobots made from algae can be used to treat difficult infections, and how the environment at UC San Diego contributed to the success of his lab.
This episode was supported by the do-it-yourself mail-order Gram stain kit.*
* "Ads" heard on microTalk are for parody purposes only, there are no actual products for sale.
043: Native Alaskan Perspectives in Microbiology with Kat Milligan-Myhre
042: Undone by Fungi: Mucormycosis with Ashraf Ibrahim
041: There’s a Germ in my Worm: Bacterial-driven Metamorphosis with Nick Shikuma
040: Public Health in the Time of Cholera: Enteric Disease Intervention with Christine Marie George
039: Let’s Veto Mosquitoes: Malaria with Gunnar Mair
038: Babbling Bacteria: A Discussion About Quorum Sensing with Marvin Whiteley
037: Coral Reefs in Crisis! A Discussion with Rebecca Vega-Thurber
036: Viruses from Heaven and Hell: A Discussion with Ken Stedman
035: Flip-flops and Surfboards made from Algae? Renewable algae-derived biomaterials with Steve Mayfield
034: Disease Expertise with the Big Cheese: CDC Deputy Director Anne Schuchat
033: Mr. CRISPR, Kevin Doxzen, Discusses the Revolutionary Gene Editing Technology
032: The Wrath of Maria: Puerto Rican Microbiologists Discuss Post-Hurricane Science
031: Content in Cement: Julie Maresca Discusses the Concrete Microbiome
030: Mycology Loquacity: Carol Kumamoto Gets Candid about Candida
029: Prevent What’s Preventable: Vaccine Preventable Diseases with Cherise Rohr-Allegrini
028: You Gotta Be Squidding Me! A Discussion with Ned Ruby
027: Do the Bugs in your Gut Cause Parkinson’s Disease? A Discussion with Sarkis Mazmanian
026: Bugs in Space! High School Students Send a Microbiology Experiment on the ISS
025: It’s a Fungal Jungle Out There! A Discussion with Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
024: Time for Lyme: A Discussion with Dr. Steve Norris
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
DNA Today: A Genetics Podcast
Short Wave
Unexplainable
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
COMPLEXITY