Antimicrobial resistance Puns

The growing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) crisis, brought about by decades of misuse and overuse of antibiotics and responsible for 35,000 deaths annually in the United States alone (according to the Centers for Disease Control), has forced scientists to adopt new tactics and develop new strategies to stay ahead of the evolutionary race with microbes.

Join us today at 2 PM ET (18 UT) for a discussion with experts on the science of AMR, organized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). We'll discuss how the problem of AMR has evolved, strategies for combating AMR now and in the future, and approaches for identifying and producing new antibiotics that can attack drug-resistant microbes. Ask us anything!

With us today are:

• Dr. Azeem Ahmad, Ph.D. (u/aahmad_Marian_46222) - Assistant Professor of Biology, Marian University
• Zoe Hansen (u/GutFeelings_zh) - Graduate Student, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
• Dr. Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. () - Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Dr. Maria Fernanda Mojica, Ph.D. (u/Micro_Bio_Science) - Postdoctoral Scholar, Case Western Reserve University
• Dr. Sanjana Mukherjee, Ph.D., M.Sc. (u/DiseaseDetective_SM) - ORISE Public Health Policy and Regulatory Research Fellow, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Links:

• https://asm.org/Webinars/AAR-Insights-Discussions
• https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/index.html
• https://asm.org/Podcasts/Editors-in-Conversation/Episodes/The-Antimicrobial-Resistance-Leadership-Group-ARLG

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