News from ABSMIDS | A guest lecture and discussion on “Bacterial Infection and Inflammation: A Tug-of-War at the Host-Microbe Interface”

A guest lecture and discussion on “Bacterial Infection and Inflammation: A Tug-of-War at the Host-Microbe Interface” by Dr. Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Young Investigator / Senior-Post Doctoral fellow, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, was held on 3rd August 2022 at the Board room of A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences. Dr. Praveen Kumar Shetty, Director (R&D) gave the welcome address.

The speaker discussed using ex vivo primary human immune cells as model systems to understand the innate immune effector functions during infections. Additionally, he presented the utilization of the novel organotypic 3D human airway tissue models to assess the bacterial toxin-mediated pathology at the tissue site of infections during invasive infections. He also discussed additional approaches being used in the institution to quantify microbial heterogeneity within human infections, with the goal of using these data to further characterize the accuracy of pre-clinical models.

Prof. Dr. Mithra N Hegde, Vice Principal, ABSMIDS delivered the vote of thanks.

The lecture was attended by 41 delegates, including faculties and postgraduate students.

The resource person also visited the Central Research Laboratory (CRL), KSHEMA and Nitte University Centre for Science Education and Research (NUCSER) to see the facilities available for future collaborative work.