QLS Seminar - Michael Baym

What other factors select on antibiotic resistance?

Michael Baym, Harvard University
Tuesday October 4, 12-1pm
Zoom Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86855481591

Abstract: While the human use of antibiotics does contribute to the evolution of resistance, the epidemiology of resistance we observe is inconsistent with it being the sole, or potentially even the primary, driver of resistance evolution. So what else is selecting on resistance? I will propose some possibilities, show how to discover phages that select against both resistance and the horizontal transmission of resistance, and show how evolutionary insight can teach us how to build better diagnostics.