Experimental Evolution, Gene Networks and Bacterial Defences - Professor Tiffany Taylor
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tiffany Taylor about her research which centres on three main and interlinking areas, experimental evolution, gene networks and bacterial defences.
00:00 Introduction.
00:29 How did you come to work in the field of experimental evolution?
02:24 Competition and the role it plays in dispersal behaviours.
04:01 Bacteriophage coevolution.
04:48 Evolutionary principles that could help in the treatment of cancer.
07:50 How do you study experimental evolution?
09:40 How do you study the processes of evolution in real time?
12:52 Gene networks.
14:02 The predictability of evolution and mutational hotspots.
16:53 Bacterial defences and antibiotic resistance.
19:43 Regulating multiple defence systems in bacteria and the implications for phage therapy.
21:25 Experimental evolution in the classroom.