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CANCELLED - Protectors and killers: rapid evolution of microbe-mediated protection from infection
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Many animal and plant species harbour microbes in their microbiota that protect them from parasite infection. These ‘protective microbes’ can be a significant component of host defence. Using experimental evolution of a novel, tripartite interaction, my group has demonstrated that a costly bacterium living in worms can rapidly evolve to defend their animal hosts against infection by virulent parasites, thus crossing the parasitism-mutualism continuum. We also show that these protective microbes can drive major changes in host tolerance, parasite virulence and coevolutionary dynamics. Our results indicate that the host microbiome is important in shaping infection outcomes, now and over evolutionary time.
Date:
13 November 2019, 12:00
Venue:
Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details:
Seminar room
Speaker:
Kayla King (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Organiser:
Suki Kenth (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
suki.kenth@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Peter Medawar Building Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Suki Kenth
