Olga Zhaxybayeva, PhD ('04) Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College
Host: Peter Gogarten
"On a puzzling relationship between some bacteria and their viruses"
Summary: Virus-like regions are commonly found in bacterial genomes. But do all these regions encode bona fide viruses? In my talk, I will discuss virus-derived elements hypothesized to be devices that mediate survival of bacteria under conditions of nutrient limitation. Abstract: https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/4/e01206-20