Reversible intestinal colonization - a conceptually new way to study host-microbiota interactions
Event details
| Date | 04.11.2010 |
| Hour | 12:15 |
| Speaker | Siegfried Hapfelmeier, University of Bern |
| Location |
SV 1717A
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
We have recently developed a novel concept of studying intestinal bacterial-host interaction – a reversible intestinal bacterial colonization system (Hapfelmeier et al. Science (2010) 328 pp. 1705-9). Germ free animals can be exposed to live commensal bacteria that do not multiply in the host, which thus becomes germ-free again. The ensuing immune response can be studied in the again germ-free animal, and thus be uncoupled from bacterial colonization. This allows to study immune dynamics, immune memory and other responses to intestinal bacteria in ways that were previously not possible.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Nicola Harris
Contact
- Nicola Harris