Department of Life Sciences
FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Ecology and Pathology of Free Living Amoebae
Overview: This talk will concentrate on one particularly abundant Free Living Amoeba (FLA) genus, ACANTHAMOEBA, which is important for human health and from which we have harnessed its unique bacteria recognition, to obtain new treatments against the pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS.
Presenter: Dr Sutherland Maciver, Reader in Biomedical Sciences Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Introductions: Prof John Lindo, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences
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