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SUMMARY:Natural Products in Microbial Interactions
DTSTART:20200317T161500
DTEND:20200317T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T103721Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Pierre Stallforth.\n\nLeibniz Institute for Natural Prod
 uct Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute\, Jena\, Germ
 any\nThe search for new bioactive natural products has prompted scientists
  to exploit environmental niches in which the production of these compound
 s is ecologically motivated. Microbial predator–prey interactions are pa
 rticularly rich sources of natural products. We describe one such interact
 ion in which bacterivorous amoebae and their prokaryotic prey meet. Amoeba
 e are voracious and ubiquitous predators to bacteria that cause constant d
 epletion of huge bacterial reservoirs. This puts both organisms under stro
 ng evolutionary selection pressure: the bacteria have evolved mechanisms t
 o prevent grazing and the amoebae must counteract or surmount these mechan
 isms in order to survive. Here\, we describe a variety of natural products
  that show amoebicidal activity\, along with investigations into their bio
 synthesis\, evolution\, and regulation.
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