Rotem Sorek of the Weizmann Institute of Science will be speaking at the LMB on Monday 27th January at 11:00am about "The immune system of bacteria"
Abstract: Over the past few years, research from our lab pioneered the discovery of the bacterial pan-immune system. We now understand that beyond restriction-modification and CRISPR-Cas, bacteria encode over 150 distinct anti-phage immune systems. Our studies surprisingly revealed that important components of the human innate immune system originated in bacterial systems that defend from phages. The talk will summarize our understanding of the bacterial immune system, and will highlight how bacterial defense from phage gave rise to key mechanisms in human innate immunity.
Further details of this talk and the rest of our talks can be found on our website at https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/scientific-seminars/.
We look forward to welcoming as many as possible to this talk, in-person only in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.