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SUMMARY:Exploiting bacteriophages for bioscience\, biotechnology and medic
 ine - Professor George Salmond\, University of Cambridge\, UK
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CONTACT:Dr Shara Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Bacteriophages (phages) are arguably the most abundant biologi
 cal entities on the planet. They play crucial roles in driving the adaptiv
 e evolution of their bacterial hosts\, and achieve this both through the p
 redator-prey roles of the phage-bacterium interaction and through the adap
 tive impacts of lysogeny and lysogenic conversion.  Bacteriophages are the
  source of many biochemical reagents and technologies\, indispensible for 
 modern molecular biology. Furthermore\, phages are being exploited in othe
 r areas of biotechnology\, including diagnostics\, prophylaxis and other a
 spects of food microbiology. In recent years there has been a growing inte
 rest in developing phages for therapeutic purposes (phage therapy) as natu
 ral alternatives to antibiotics. The inexorable rise in the incidence of a
 ntibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens\, coupled with the disappointi
 ngly low rate of emergence of new\, clinically useful antibiotics\, has re
 focused attention on the potential utility of phages for treating human an
 d animal disease. Examples of the roles of phages in fundamental biologica
 l research and in medical and industrial biotechnologies will be discussed
  at this meeting\n\nwww.regonline.co.uk/bacteriophage2012
LOCATION:The Penridge Suite\, 470 Bowes Road\, London N11 1NL
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