A public lecture on Quorum Quenching Quandary: Bacterial Adaptation to Quorum Quorum Sensing Inhibitors has been held on 13^th March 2019 at Faculty of Agriculture Hall, Faculty of Agriculture, UPM. The lecture was delivered by the guest speaker Associate Professor Dr. Toshinari Maeda from Department of Biological Functions and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. About 40 participants, including lecturers, researchers, and postgraduate students attended the lecture. The program was organized by the Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Production and Biodiversity. Dr. Maeda research interests include microbial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Genetics. He has been working in several research projects related to his interest including Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching. This lecture highlighted the use of Quorum Quenching as a tool for studying the cell to cell communications, especially for bacteria. He has shared his experience in using Quorum Sensing approach for studying the evolution of bacterial resistance to antivirulence compounds, the biodegradation of a quorum-sensing inhibitor which is C-30 by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the effect of lactonase on acylated homoserine lactones (quorum-sensing signal) during the methane fermentation of waste sewage sludge.

Date of Input: 11/09/2019 | Updated: 11/09/2019 | s_kumari