Tuesday @ Harvard: Development of Marine Bacteria as a Resource of Novel Antibiotics

John MacMillan, UT Southwestern Medical School will speak on March 29, 12:30 Harvard Medical School, Warren Alpert Building, 341, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA. Arrive early for coffee and snacks.

The MacMillan lab philosophy on natural products is predicated on the concept of using natural products as a tool for biological discovery – whether that be the development of new pharmaceuticals or as probes for biochemical pathways. The only way to accomplish this goal is by integration of cutting edge methods in identifying new chemical entities with highly innovative biology. Our research platform is based on the use of marine-derived microorganisms as a source of secondary metabolites, development of high-throughput methods of generating fraction libraries for biological evaluation and new NMR based techniques for solving complex structures.

Photo courtesy of MacMillan Lab