• Question: What kind of theories do you try to prove/ disprove with experiments with your cells?

    Asked by anon-231535 to Tom, Steven, Jessica, Haafizah, Clio, Bruno Silvester on 13 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-231548.
    • Photo: Tom Snelling

      Tom Snelling answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      Thanks for your question!

      I try to understand how the cells respond to a component from bacteria.

      Once we add the bacteria component we measure the changes that occur in the cell to work out how the cell responds to bacteria.

      We then use crispr/cas9 system to delete certain genes which seem to be important in the response to prove that they are involved

    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I try to prove why bacteria has developed resistance and the underlying mechanisms behind it. My work is mainly on evolution of bugs 🙂

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