Social behavior and social engineering in bacteria
- Date
- August 1 (Thu) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2024 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Ashleigh Griffin (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK)
- Venue
- Seminar Room #359
- via Zoom
- Language
- English
- Host
- Ryosuke Iritani
This year is the 60th anniversary of WD Hamilton’s seminal paper in which he outlined his theory of inclusive fitness and showed how it could be used to understand altruism in the social insects. In this talk, I will describe efforts made to use his theory to understand social behavior in bacteria. And I’ll go on to explore the potential of using these insights to tackle problems of antibiotic resistance in infections.
This is a closed event for scientists. Non-scientists are not allowed to attend. All scientists, including those outside RIKEN, are welcome to attend, please register using the registration form.