Silver, Wine, and Bacteria: what do we know about them?

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 22 September 2015 - Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

Level 3, Large Seminar Room

UQ Location:

Queensland Bioscience Precinct (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au/qaafi-science-seminars-2015

Event category(s):

Full Description:: QAAFI Science Seminar
Presented by Dr Zyta Ziora
Senior Research Officer, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ

ABSTRACT
Research in the group I am working is mainly focused on development of new antibiotics and also on the searching for the enhancers promoting oral drug delivery. Recently we have started a new project, Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (www.co-add.org), a venture to discovery the next new class of antibiotics. We are interested in improving antibiotics performance in many different ways.

One of the possible additives increasing the antimicrobial activity could be, as I believe, tannins from different plants, tea leafs, berries, grapes, and finally from wine.

Additionally, tannins could be a good group of compounds to develop natural preservation technologies for different food systems. Furthermore, it has been recently demonstrated that silver cations can enhance bioactivity in vitro and in vivo of some antibiotics against Gram-positive and also Gram-negative bacteria, thereby expanding the antibacterial spectrum of those drugs.