Event

Chromatin dynamics in host-microbe interactions in the gut

  • Thu 17 Oct 19

    13:00 - 14:00

  • Colchester Campus

    STEM 3.1

  • Event speaker

    Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz

  • Event type

    Lectures, talks and seminars
    Autumn Term

  • Event organiser

    Life Sciences, School of

  • Contact details

    Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz
    01206 872318

The gut is home of trillions of mostly beneficial bacteria that help in digestion of food, generate vitamins and other beneficial bioactive metabolites and train the immune system.

However, host-microbe interactions can turn sour, giving rise to various diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases. Host-microbe interactions have co-evolved, so it is not surprising that the epigenetic and genome regulatory machinery is part of this crosstalk.

In this talk  Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz will present recent unpublished work concerning chromatin dynamics in host-microbe interactions in the gut.

Speaker

Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz is a Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Essex.