Episode Details

Today Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at UC San Diego and Co-Director at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics, will chat with us about how bacteriophages—viruses that attack bacteria—changed her life and are becoming part of our future.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Steffanie Strathdee

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Links for this episode

• A fun video about bacteriophages.

• A pretty solid overview about bacteriophages.

• An article about the history of bacteriophages.

• An article about a truly prophetic  book—"Arrowsmith"--- from 1925, by Sinclair Lewis, about using bacteriophages to fight disease.

• A wonderful TED talk about the rise of antibiotic resistant pathogens by Maryn McKenna.

• A nice overview of ESKAPE pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. 

• A link to a recent talk given by Dr. Strathdee.

• A link to Dr. Strathdee's recent book, "The Perfect Predator."

• A super recent and quite wonderful review article about phage therapy by Dr. Strathdee.

• The SEAPHAGES program (which I always wanted to be part of!!)

• Ry Young's laboratory website.

• Dr. Strathdee's faculty website.

• Dr. Strathdee's Wikipedia page!

• A link to the website of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH).

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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