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SUMMARY:What Drugs and Chemicals Do to Our Bugs?
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kiran R. Patil\, MRC Toxicology Unit and Department of B
 iochemistry\, University of Cambridge (UK)\ndouble feature BIOENGINEERING 
 SEMINAR\n\n(see details of 2nd talk HERE)\n\nAbstract:\nWe are exposed to 
 hundreds – if not thousands – of various small molecule chemicals thro
 ugh our food. These include therapeutic drugs but also chemical pollutants
  such as pesticides and industrial chemicals that make their way into food
  systems. I will discuss interactions between these xenobiotics with our g
 ut microbiome\, which sits at the interface of environment and our vital o
 rgans\, mechanistic basis of these interactions\, and potential routes to 
 detoxification.\n\nBio:\nKiran R. Patil studied Chemical Engineering at th
 e Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai\, India). He moved to the Technic
 al University of Denmark (DTU) to work with Prof. Jens Nielsen and obtaine
 d his PhD in Systems Biology. Kiran was then appointed as Assistant Profes
 sor at DTU where he worked on transcriptional regulation and metabolic eng
 ineering. In 2010\, Kiran joined the Structural and Computational Biology 
 Unit at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-Heidelberg\, Germa
 ny). He was appointed Director of Research at the MRC Toxicology Unit in 2
 019\, and appointed as Professor of Molecular Systems Biology in October 2
 022.\n\n\n\n\nZoom link for attending remotely: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/694
 95424813\n\n 
LOCATION:CH G1 495 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CH%20G1%20495 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/j/69495424813
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