SFU Café Scientifique - A Novel Strategy to Repurpose Existing Antibiotics

Type IV pili are hairlike filaments on the surfaces of many bacterial pathogens. These pili rapidly extend, adhere and retract, which allows bacteria to be pulled along surfaces, to be pulled into protective “microcolonies”, and to internalize substrates like DNA and bacterial viruses (bacteriophages). Join molecular biology and biochemistry professor Lisa Craig to hear about these remarkable molecular machines and how we might exploit their activities to treat multidrug-resistant infections.

January 27, 2026

5:00 - 6:30 pm

On Zoom - Webinar link wil lbe e-mailed to all registered attendees

Questions about Café Scientifique? E-mail cafe_scientifique@sfu.ca!