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The summer school reflects the recent development of interest in microbial metabolites that has resulted from the sequencing of small molecule-producing microorganisms, coupled with the current explosive development of sequencing technology, bioinformatics and chemical analysis. Ecological studies highlighting the wide range of roles for small molecules in microbial communities provide another major driving force. The aim is to bring together a cadre of young scientists from diverse backgrounds, including molecular microbiology, chemistry, microbial ecology and bioinformatics, to share information that can lead to inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding and exploiting metabolite production. These summer schools have established a reputation for the quality of the faculty and participants (about 40) and the high degree of productive interaction during the week-long courses. Due to a particular urgency that has been added to the search for novel antibiotics by the rapid rise in drug-resistance among pathogenic microorganisms and cancers, a special feature of the summer school will be hands-on computer workshops to annotate genomes and analyse natural product gene clusters. The co-directors of the course are David Hopwood and Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre), Julian Davies (University of British Columbia) and Duška Vujaklija (Ruđer Bošković Institute, the president of the Section for Bacteriology and an active CMS member).
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Pored vrhunskih znanstvenika poput Sir Davida Hopwooda (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK), Mervina Bibba (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK), Roberta Kotlera (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) te Juliana Daviesa (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Ljetna škola će okupiti kvalitetan kadar mladih znanstvenika koji se bave različitim područjima istraživanja, uključujući molekularnu mikrobiologiju, kemiju, mikrobnu ekologiju i bioinformatiku. Cilj škole je omogućiti svim sudionicima razmjenu najnovijih znanja i rezultata istraživanja koji bi mogli dovesti do razvoja određenih interdisciplinarnih pristupa u razumijevanju i iskorištavanju proizvodnje metabolita. Naime, interdisciplinarni pristup razumijevanju i iskorištavanju proizvodnje mikrobnih metabolita izuzetno je važno znanstveno područje zbog potrage za novim antibioticima u svjetlu sve veće otpornosti patogenih mikroorganizama i raka na postojeće lijekove i terapije. Jedno od globalnih pitanja o kojima će se raspravljati na ljetnoj školi jest i koliko smo daleko od lijeka protiv superbakterije. Pored toga sudionici će raspravljati o tome kako riješiti rastući problem prekomjerne otpornosti patogenih bakterija na antibiotike, u kojim ekološkim nišama se nalaze mikroorganizmi od biotehnološkog interesa te kako bakterije komuniciraju i možemo li saznanja dobivena analizom genoma mikroorganizama primijeniti kako bi ciljano potaknuli bakterije da proizvode prirodne produkte koji bi imali medicinsku primjenu.