January 18 and 19, 2010

HKBIO co-hosted with the Department of Biology of HKUST two seminars by Professor Roberto Kolter, who is the President of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Director of the Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) at Harvard University, Boston, USA. Two topics were covered, namely "Microbial Chemical Ecology and the Future of Antibiotics" and "Extracellular Signals Dictate Cell Fate in Biofilms". The seminars were attended by numerous professors, students as well as those who are interested in Microbiology.