Lessons for Tuberculosis Treatment from the Zebrafish
By Lalita Ramakrishnan
LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists
Cambridge Biomedical Campus on Virtual Tour

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Join Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan to discover how zebrafish are helping researchers understand and develop treatments for tuberculosis (TB), a major infectious killer to this day.

Lalita is a pioneer of research into the pathogenesis of TB. Her work uses zebrafish to study tuberculosis. The zebrafish larvae are particularly useful as they are transparent for several weeks, which enables Lalita and her team to manipulate and monitor infection in real-time.

In this talk, Lalita will share how these tools have proven to be powerful when trying to understand tuberculosis, and how her team have also translated this work to human tuberculosis and discovered new drugs for tuberculosis.

Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan is Head of the University of Cambridge’s Molecular Immunity Unit, located within the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), a Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, and also works as an Infectious Diseases Consultant at Cambridge University Hospital.

After completing her medical training in India, Lalita completed a PhD, medical residency training and postdoctoral research in the US. In 2001, Lalita joined the faculty of the University of Washington where she pioneered the zebrafish as a model for tuberculosis (TB) pathogenesis, before moving to Cambridge in 2014. Lalita is a member of US National Academy of Sciences and EMBO, and a Fellow of The Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology.

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