{"id":461,"date":"2018-01-24T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T08:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2020-04-16T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T08:24:30","slug":"phage-bacteria-experimental-evolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/research\/phage-bacteria-experimental-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of phage-bacteria interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteriophages (the work &#8220;phage&#8221; is from the Greek word \u03c6\u03b1\u03b3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd (phagein), which means &#8220;to devour&#8221;) are virus that uniquely target and kill bacteria. These phages have re-emerged as a highly interesting approach to treat bacterial infection, and in particular bacteria that display antibiotic resistance. In our lab, we develop and use phage-bacteria evolution platforms to investigate how phages and bacteria interact.<\/p>\n<p>Our work\u00a0includes both hardware and software engineering, computational modeling and wet-lab experiments. In addition to basic research in phage-host evolutionary mechanisms, we are also exploring the potential for using phages to combat bacteria in different real-life settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteriophages (the work &#8220;phage&#8221; is from the Greek word \u03c6\u03b1\u03b3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd (phagein), which means &#8220;to devour&#8221;) are virus that uniquely target and kill bacteria. These phages have re-emerged as a highly interesting approach to treat bacterial infection, and in particular bacteria that display antibiotic resistance. In our lab, we develop and use phage-bacteria evolution platforms to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"parent":157,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/704"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almaaslab.nt.ntnu.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}