Mikroben im Visier. Infektionen verstehen, Resistenzen besiegen!
In the podcast of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS, Elisabeth Pfrommer and Christian Nehls explain with alternating guests from research how and why resistant pathogens spread and what we can do about it.
Microbes, or more precisely microorganisms, are the origin of all life. They exist in incredibly large numbers and in every conceivable place. This podcast is about microbes that threaten our health as pathogens.
Microbiologist Dr. Elisabeth Pfrommer and physicist Dr. Christian Nehls take a close look at pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms, shed light on current problems in infectious medicine and provide information on countermeasures. They talk to experts from the Leibniz research network INFECTIONS.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is at the heart of the research and the podcast. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers this resistance to be one of the greatest threats to public health. But what exactly is AMR? Where do they come from, why do drugs lose their effectiveness and what can research do to counter this growing threat? Christian and Elisabeth get to the bottom of these and many other questions. Each episode focuses on a specific aspect of the topic and is supported by expert guests from the network.
The hosts
Elisabeth Pfrommer is a microbiologist and completed her doctoral thesis in the Leibniz research alliance INFECTIONS. She is currently working at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and is particularly interested in the airborne spread of pathogens.
Christian Nehls is a physicist who wrote his doctoral thesis at the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center and has been working there as a scientist since 2015. He is interested in cell and bacterial membranes in the context of infections and is also investigating novel agents against bacteria.