Microbes as medicine – How we obtain antibiotics from nature
Science made understandable for Bad Sebastiansweiler: Prof. Dr. Nadine Ziemert
Bacteria are not only pathogens, but true all-rounders: they help us digest food, clean our environment, produce vitamins – and they also produce many of the important drugs we use in medicine.
In her lecture, Nadine Ziemert shows why these invisible cohabitants can play a major role in our future.
We are facing a growing problem: more and more pathogens are becoming resistant to conventional antibiotics.
That is why we are searching for new active substances in nature – especially in microbes such as soil bacteria. Using modern methods, in particular genomics, we can now look into the genetic information of these microbes.
This allows us to discover hidden ‘blueprints’ for new antibiotics and other drugs that the bacteria themselves have produced to fight each other.
Prof. Dr. Nadine Ziemert will give her lecture on 20 July 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Venue:
Kurklinik Bad Sebastiansweiler
Hechinger Straße 26
72116 Mössingen
District: Bad Sebastiansweiler.