Discovering Antibacterial And Anticancer Therapeutics In Unexpected Places

Organizers: S. Marvin Friedman (Hunter College, CUNY), Jennifer S. Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Speakers: Bonnie Bassler (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Princeton University), Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Research into obscure organisms can aid drug development from unexpected angles. Speakers discuss the use of quorum sensing to develop anti-microbial agents, and a potential therapy for human melanoma discovered in the study of fungal melanin.