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92nd St Anne's Domus Seminar: Professor Sam Sheppard
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The 92nd St Anne's College Domus Seminar will be delivered by Professor Sam Sheppard on the topic 'How gene sharing made bacteria unstoppable'. Bacteria are the ultimate adapters: ancient, invisible, and found everywhere life exists. The traditional view of bacteria as simple organisms that reproduce clonally is inaccurate. In fact, bacteria defy this assumption by sharing and recombining genes, a genetic strategy that has shaped life on Earth for billions of years. Using insights from the bacte...
Event Highlights
- •Explores how bacteria defy traditional ideas of what a 'species' is through gene sharing
- •Examines how gene sharing allows bacteria to jump between animal hosts and emerge as new human pathogens
- •Discusses how bacteria rapidly acquire antibiotic resistance, making them a major public health threat
- •Uses insights from the bacterial genetic code to understand evolution over billions of years
- •Open to all attendees with drinks reception following the lecture
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Professor Sam Sheppard
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Programme
17:30
How gene sharing made bacteria unstoppable
Lecture by Professor Sam Sheppard
18:30
Drinks reception
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Organized by: St Anne's College, Oxford
Contact: Tel: +44 (0)1865 274800
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