PMB Seminar with Gautam Dantas | Understanding, Predicting, and Remediating Perturbations to Host-Microbe Interactions

Event details Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Time: 12:00 PM Location: 101 Morgan Hall Type: Lecture / Workshop Audience: Alumni,Faculty,Prospective Students,Public,Staff,Students About this event Antibiotics can acutely and persistently compromise microbiome stability and resilience, enabling enhanced colonization of pathogenic microbes, and loss of host-beneficial functions from depleted commensals. We interrogate resistome, taxonomic, and functional dynamics of microbiota of humans, animals, soils, and built-environments via high-throughput functional metagenomic selections, whole metagenome and transcriptome sequencing, and isolate phenotyping and whole genome sequencing. Official event details: https://events.berkeley.edu/pmb/event/327053-pmb-seminar-with-gautam-dantas-understanding