Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

The marine environment, a novel source of antimicrobial metabolites

Joint Event on 17^th International Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology & 23^rd Edition of International Conference on Immunology and Infectious Diseases

April 29-30, 2019 London, UK

Mai Mohammed Al-Ghanem

Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Qatar

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Clin Microbiol

Abstract:

Modern medicine relies heavily on antibiotics to combat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to humanity and a challenge to modern medicine. The development of new antimicrobials is urgently needed before the current antibiotics used become compromised by antibiotic resistance. Microbial species of natural environments are a rich source of novel compounds and secondary metabolites with unique bioactive properties and an excellent ground for investigation for future drug discovery and the expansion of the pharmaceutical pipeline.

Biography :

Mai Mohammed Al-Ghanem has completed her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. She works as a Biological Researcher in the Biotechnology Department (Agriculture research) at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment in Doha, Qatar. Her background includes Marine Microbiology and Molecular Biology.

E-mail: mai_alghanem@yahoo.com