Nick Conley – Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder of Epibiome – Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
EpiBiome, a microbiome engineering company based in San Francisco, is busy developing next generation antibacterials to fight a real problem; the growing threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Their focus is also on engineering the human microbiome using technology called"phages", or bacteria-specific viruses. These "phages" are natural enemies of bacteria, essentially injecting it with the flu and killing it. They then go on to attach to other bacteria and do the same. Bacteriophages, or "phages" for short, have been around for a billion years and are still an effective evolutionary battle around today.
EpiBiome is working to get these FDA-approved alternatives to traditional antibiotics, by using phage mixtures that will target and destroy known pathogens which have been formulated into a treatment for a specific indication. EpiBiome's wide focus is not only on agriculture and human health, but also they have cast a wide net on solving the same issues in clean water development, aquaculture and food safety.
Nick Conley, now Chief Science Officer, sits down to explain the critical importance of finding innovative ways to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria and the threat it poses on our future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.6 | Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.8 | We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:32.2 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2018, the Blockchain and Future Tech |
| 0:39.5 | Expo. |
| 0:40.6 | This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:44.7 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, |
| 0:52.0 | and several other future technologies that are poised to and |
| 0:56.4 | actually changing our lives as we speak. Here's why you should attend. As you may know, |
| 1:01.7 | early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited from things like the gold rush |
| 1:06.7 | in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet boom in 2005, from the |
| 1:13.5 | smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course, |
| 1:19.5 | from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now, they don't wait until |
| 1:25.0 | later. They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They |
| 1:28.4 | find the biggest gold nuggets. If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find |
| 1:33.5 | the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. Blockchain |
| 1:38.2 | is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, |
| 1:43.9 | how we bank, and more. |
| 1:45.8 | But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity will play a pivotal role |
| 1:50.7 | in our lives as well. |
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