Dr. Anthony Maresso, TailΦr Labs, Baylor College of Medicine, USA will join the Phage Therapy Congress to present his latest research in a talk entitled “Phage 3.0: Spotlighting the Viral Genosphere for Drug Discovery, Biotechnology, and Novel Biological Functions”.
It is estimated there are more phage on Earth then the countable stars in the known universe. Phages may have been evolving since the Pre-Cambrian period, nearly 4 billion years ago. This suggests that bacterial viruses are the largest single repository of genetic diversity in the history of self-replicating agents. Since most phage genomes cannot be annotated by comparison to known ORFs in public sequencing databases, such diversity implies phages are a source of incredible new biologic modalities.
In this talk, Dr. Maresso will describe initial progress towards harnessing this genetic power for novel applications in our understanding of structural, molecular, cellular, and enzymatic processes. He will highlight capture and reactor devices to find and select for the rarest of phages, suppressor screens of viral libraries to invoke new biologic functions, and viral genes as potential guardians of nucleic acid fidelity.
Phages may advance biotechnology and medicine by providing molecular tools to better understand, and ultimately manipulate, biologic life.
Join the congress to benefit from the experience of professionals like Dr. Maresso.
Targeting Phage Therapy 2023
June 1-2, 2023 – Paris, France