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Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Special EEB Seminar

The evolution of drug resistant pathogens: principles and practice, presented by Dr Andrew Read, Penn State University

The evolution of drug resistant microbes is one of the key challenges for 21st century medicine. Drug use practices vigorously advocated as resistance management tools by professional bodies, public health agencies and medical schools represent humankind’s largest attempts to manage evolution. Yet some of these practices seem to sit uncomfortably with ecological and evolutionary principles, or at the very least, seem overly simplistic. I will illustrate this by examining the advice that patients should keep taking their antibiotics even when they feel better. Intuition is unreliable even in simple evolutionary contexts; developing a science of resistant management requires that evolution be measured.

Dr Read is ​Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Professor of Biology and Entomology at The Pennsylvania State University.

Please join us for a post seminar reception immediately following the seminar, Ruthven Museums Hall Of Evolution.​

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