How Bacteria Resist Antibiotics
Class - In Person & Zoom | Available (Membership Required)
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria make it difficult to treat infections and are a growing medical problam as nore antibiotics lose clinical effectiveness. This class will focus on how antibiotics work, how individual cells gain the ability to resist them, and how that ability spreads through bacterial populations.
Erin Purcell
Erin Purcell, Ph.D., completed her doctoral work at the University of Chicago and her post-doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University. Her lab studies the different mechanisms determining antibiotic effectiveness in the common 'superbug' C Diff.