{"id":247027,"date":"2022-03-01T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=247027"},"modified":"2022-03-01T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:34:02","slug":"comstech-organizes-public-lecture-on-microbial-biofilm-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/comstech-organizes-public-lecture-on-microbial-biofilm-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"COMSTECH organizes public lecture on microbial biofilm formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nCOMSTECH organized a public Lecture on \u201cMicrobial Biofilm Formation and its Importance as a Drug Target\u201d delivered by Prof. Dr. Ute R\u00f6mling, Professor of Medical Microbial Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden on Monday. Dr. Romling thanked the President of Pakistan and the Coordinator General COMSTECH for inviting her to Pakistan and said that I am very pleased to be here.<br \/>\nShe presented the work of her team on the biofilm formation and its importance as a drug target.<br \/>\nShe said that biofilms are matrix-enclosed bacterial populations adherent to each other and\/or to surfaces or interfaces. She said that 60 to 80 percent of human bacterial infections are caused by biofilm forming bacteria. Dr. Romling mentioned that biofilms are tolerant against antibiotics and immune response. She talked in detail on the topic in her one-hour long lecture.<br \/>\nThe Coordinator General COMSTECH, Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Chouhdary introduced the speaker to the audience and said that I am extremely pleased to introduce Prof. Dr. Ute R\u00f6mling. I am very fascinated from the talent and the spirit of Prof. Dr. Ute Romling.<br \/>\nShe is a renowned scientist, COMSTECH distinguished scholar and also chairs a faculty at international center of chemical and biological sciences. Prof. Ute is very well known in the field of biomedical sciences particularly in the field of infectious diseases. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation.<br \/>\nThis was hybrid event. A number of researchers from Islamabad and Rawalpindi participated in-person at COMSTECH and many scientists and students from different OIC member states participated online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD COMSTECH organized a public Lecture on \u201cMicrobial Biofilm Formation and its Importance as a Drug Target\u201d delivered by Prof. Dr. Ute R\u00f6mling, Professor of Medical Microbial Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden on Monday. Dr. Romling thanked the President of Pakistan and the Coordinator General COMSTECH for inviting her to Pakistan and said that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COMSTECH organizes public lecture on microbial biofilm formation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/comstech-organizes-public-lecture-on-microbial-biofilm-formation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMSTECH organizes public lecture on microbial biofilm formation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD COMSTECH organized a public Lecture on \u201cMicrobial Biofilm Formation and its Importance as a Drug Target\u201d delivered by Prof. Dr. Ute R\u00f6mling, Professor of Medical Microbial Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden on Monday. 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