Jul 25 2024 75 mins
In this episode we are joined by Microbiologist and phage enthusiast Dr. Sian Owen to discuss exactly what phages are, how they work, and the latest in phage research that may yield new tools in the fight against antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Dr. Owen recently finished her post doctoral research as a Fellow In the department of Biomedical Informatics and the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology at the Baym Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. and will soon be heading her own lab at the Wadsworth Center in Albany New York. She has also completed research at the Jay Hinton Laboratory in Liverpool England and is an expert in the field of bacteriophages and has been using experimental evolution and computational approaches to study the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Dr. Owen's discoveries have been published in Nature, Nature Microbiology, Science and The Journal of Molecular Science just to name a few. Dr. Owen is a lover of all things phages and is an avid Mushroom hunter when not discovering new ways to aid in the fight against MDROs.