My Tiny Friends:
Microbe Party
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BQM
Leonhardstrasse 34, 8092 Zürich
MONDAY 20th MAY 2019
DOORS OPEN 6.00PM, EVENT 6:30PM-9:30PM
Pilar Vesga
PhD Student, ETH Zürich
We live in a Microbial world
Pilar Vesga is a D-USYS PhD student at ETH, where she studies Pseudomonas plant species and their molecular properties against insect-pest.
Did you know that microbes are a inherent part of your body and the food you eat? Did you know that they are key for developing products of daily use such as insuline? How important are they for agriculture? What is the most extreme environment where we can find life? Her talk will be about how we are surrounded by microbes and how much do we need them in our daily life.
This talk will be in English.
Enrique Rayo
PhD Student, UZH Zürich
Our oldest friends: microbiomes today and in the past
Enrique Rayo is a URPP PhD student at UZH, where he studies the evolution of the Human Microbiome by using molecular Insights from Ancient Egyptian Samples.
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Commensal bacteria or microbiomes are of great importance today for human health and disease development. This goes from developing allergies to diabetes, cancer or autism. Even more interesting, now we can reconstruct bacteria communities from the past, so, how did the microbiomes of our ancestors look like?
This talk will be in English.
Alex Figueiredo
PhD Student, UZH Zürich
Trash-talkers and inspirational speakers; how microbes communicate and help each other.
Alex is a PhD candidate at the department of Quantitative Biomedicine in UZH. There, he studies evolution of cooperation and cheating in bacteria
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Everyone knows that humans cooperate (well, sometimes…); other animals do it too, from mammals all the way to insects. But did you know that microbes (amoebas, bacteria and so on) can also work together to better achieve their goals? In this talk, I’ll show some amazing examples of why and how microorganisms coordinate, cooperate and communicate; how this bacteria-talk can impact the Macro-world, and what implications (and applications) this can have for our society.
This talk will be in English.
