AII TV - Seminar serie - Gautam Dantas

Gautam Dantas is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His methodologies lie at the interface of microbial genomics, biochemistry, systems biology and computational biology. His research focuses on understanding and predicting how diverse microbiomes respond to chemical and biological perturbations, harnessing these insights to rationally design therapeutic strategies to curtail antibiotic resistant pathogens and remedy pathological microbiome states, and engineering microbial catalysts to convert renewable biomass into value.
Professor Dantas is a leader in using genomics to describe and understand antimicrobial resistance in microbial communities. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Washington under the mentorship of David Baker, and post-doctoral training in microbial genomics from Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of George Church. His group has published over 115 research manuscripts, including 8 papers in Science, Nature, and Cell. He also holds 5 patents in microbial biotechnology and therapeutics.