Name: Bacteria Battles: Breaking Biofilms & Decoding DNA
Start: 2025-05-19T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-19T21:00:00
Location: Easy Times Brewing Co

Bacteria may be tiny, but they’re brilliant survivors—and sometimes serious troublemakers. Join Lily and Ziming to explore cutting-edge strategies for tackling antibiotic resistance with molecular “decorations,” and discover how DNA methylation reveals the secret lives of microbes. It’s a microscopic world with massive implications!

Can DNA methylation tell the bacterial stories?

Ziming Chen (PhD candidate, University of Queensland)

Bacteria, existing almost for 3 billion years, are masters of survival in diverse environments. DNA methylation is a powerful tool for gene regulation. This talk will cover how an understanding bacterial DNA methylation may uncover their lifecycle secrets and help optimize ecosystem management.

A Chemist's Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance

Lily Kenchington-Evans (PhD candidate, University of Queensland)

How do we alleviate the burden of antimicrobial resistance, and hard to treat communities of bacteria known as biofilms? Come along to hear Lily speak about the design and synthesis of antimicrobial conjugates, and decorating existing antibiotics with permanently charged moieties, using 'click' chemistry to do just that!

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