Biophysics of bacterial transformation

Category
Seminarios - Seminario de Ciclo Junior
Date
Friday, 15 November 2013 12:00
Venue
Salón de Actos del CNB - Calle Darwin, 3, 28049 Madrid
Madrid, España
COM_ICAGENDA_PONENTE
Dr. Berenike Maier . University of Cologne, Germany
COM_ICAGENDA_CONTACTO
María Eugenia Fuentes
Telephone
91.585.43.11
COM_ICAGENDA_NOTES
Transformation is the process of import and inheritable integration of DNA into bacteria. Putative benefits of transformation are to speed up adaptive evolution by acquisition of beneficial alleles or to reduce maladaptation due to the acquisition of deleterious alleles.