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RATIO PRESENTS: BACTERIOPHAGES: Join us on 2nd Feb when we will talk about merciless killers – the bacteriophages, small biological machines designed to kill bacteria.

This event will give an overview of the main principles of the bacteriophage ecology and discuss the implications in the phage therapy.

About the speaker: Andrey Letarov is the head of the laboratory of Microbial viruses at Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RC Biotechnology RAS, Moscow, Russia. He is also a professor at Virology department of the faculty of biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. During his whole scientific career he was studying various aspect of bacteriophage biology, including organization and folding of phage proteins, bacteriophage evolution, bacteriophage diversity and ecology.