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#19: What’s the future of antibiotics?
In Episode 19, Quinn & Brian asks: What’s the future of antibiotics?
To answer: the irrepressible Dr. Gautam Dantas, the professor of pathology and immunology and biomedical engineering at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. He leads the Dantas Lab, where they work at the interface of microbial genomics, ecology, synthetic biology, and systems biology, to understand, harness, and engineer the biochemical processing potential of microbial communities.
We have a lovely, not terrifying chat about designing new antibiotics in the post-antibiotic area. Topics covered include…
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