Dr. Gerry Wright, Director of the renowned Michael G. DeGroot Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University in Ontario, will present Antibiotic Resistance: What is it, where does it come from and what can we do about it? on Thursday, April 27 at 7 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium at Carleton College.

Wright is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and an associate member in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University. Founded in 2007, the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) is a world-leading center for transdisciplinary infectious disease research, focused on life-altering work in the fields of virology, immunology, bacterial pathogenesis, and population biology and epidemiology. More at http://www.mcmasteriidr.ca.

Dr. Wright received his BSc in Biochemistry (1986) and his PhD in Chemistry (1990) from the University of Waterloo working in the area of antifungal drugs, later completing postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School where he worked on the molecular mechanism of resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin in enterococci. He joined the Department of Biochemistry at McMaster in 1993.

Wright was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012) and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2013). He is the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Scientist (2000-2005), Medical Research Council of Canada Scholar (1995-2000), Killam Research Fellowship (2011-1012), R.G.E. Murray Award for Career Achievement of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists (2013), NRC Research Press Senior Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (2016), Premiers Research Excellence (1999) and the Polanyi Prize (1993). In 2016 he was named a McMaster Distinguished University Professor.

Wright has served on grant panel advisory boards and chaired grant panels for a number of funding agencies in Canada, the US, and Europe and consults widely for the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.

He is the author of over 240 manuscripts and is a member of the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals including mBio, Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy, Cell Chemistry and Biology and the Journal of Antibiotics. He is an Associated Editor of ACS Infectious Diseases and Editor of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Antimicrobial Therapeutics Reviews.More at http://www.thewrightlab.com.

This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Chemistry, with support from The Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship Fund. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-5769. Boliou Hall is accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield.

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Chesley lecture looks at Antibiotic Resistance: What is it, where does it come from and what can we do about it? - Carleton College News