Bacterial Transformation and Competition Under Antibiotic Stress

ORAL

Abstract

Transformation, the process by which bacteria uptake DNA directly from their environment and incorporate it as their own genetic material, is a form of Horizontal Gene Transfer that occurs throughout nature as an important mechanism for spurring on bacterial evolution. We examine the capacity of bacteria to undergo transformation and will discuss work that has been done by the Austin group using Micro-Habitat Patches (MHPs) to examine the emergence of phenotypes due to horizontal gene transfer.

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Authors

  • Jonas Pederson

    • Danish Technical University

  • Andrew Bergman

    • None

  • Chris Cleveland

    • Princeton University

  • Tolga Cagatay

    • UT Southwestern

  • Robert Austin

    • Physics, Princeton University
    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University

  • Gabor Balaszi

    • The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    • Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • M.D. Anderson Medical Center