Today, Dr. Karen Ottemann, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at the University of California Santa Cruz joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the fascinating strategies of Helicobacter pylori, which can cause gastric ulcers and even stomach cancer in people.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Karen Ottemann
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Links for this episode
- An overview of Helicobacter pylori and its relationship to gastric ulcers and gastric cancer.
- A video on the relationship between Helicobacteri pylori and gastric diseases.
- The story of how Helicobacter pylori was finally demonstrated to be responsible for gastric ulcers and gastric cancer.
- The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori world wide.
- When Helicobacter pylori does not cause disease: a possible theory.
- The mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori causes gastric ulcers.
- The mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori causes gastric cancer.
- An overview of gastric cancer.
- An overview of inflammation and cancer.
- One of the articles from Dr. Ottemann’s research group discussed in this episode: “Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility.”
- Another of the articles from Dr. Ottemann’s research group discussed in this episode: “Helicobacter pylori cheV1 mutants recover semisolid agar migration due to loss of a previously uncharacterized Type IV filament membrane alignment complex homolog.”
- Dr. Ottemann’s faculty website.
- Dr. Ottemann’s research website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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