Daniel Pletzer
@pletzerlab
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Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @otago fighting infectious diseases and looking for alternative strategies to combat multi-drug resistant bacteria.
Dunedin City, New Zealand
Joined June 2011
Lipo-peptoid TM18 disrupts P. aeruginosa and S. aureus biofilms, both individually and in co-infection. It also alleviates dermonecrosis in a murine infection model and, combined with meropenem, nearly eradicates co-infections. #AMR #biofilms #infectiousdisease #peptides.
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RT @NatureMicrobiol: OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation . @knutdrescher @sneakys….
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RT @WheatleyRM: Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at @QUBbioscience to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogen….
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RT @mark_blaskovich: Our open access review of antibacterial candidates with new modes of action is now officially published. now with cov….
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RT @Hobbs_Lab_Micro: 📢 Attention antibiotic tolerance researchers! Our GIANT review of 50+ years' of clinical antibiotic tolerance data is….
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RT @Nature: By 2050, around 2 million people — the majority aged over 70 — could die from drug-resistant infections each year https://t.co/….
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RT @PeterFineran: Last day to submit your application for an academic group leader position in our department in #microbiology #microbialec….
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Great times chairing the session today! :).
Susanne Häussler @Rigshospitalet & Daniel Pletzer @pletzerlab chairing & opening the #antimicrobial tolerance session #Pseudomonas2024 @MicrobioSoc
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RT @MicrobioSoc: Welcome to the #Pseudomonas2024! We're looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen. Over the next five days, the conferenc….
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RT @microtago: Dr Sam Wardell from the Pletzer laboratory presented his past and present research on AMR at this week's department seminar!….
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RT @PeterFineran: I am looking for a post-doc to work on our @MBIEsci project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetic….
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RT @A_baumannii: Here our newest review we discuss Current and novel therapies for management of Acinetobacter baumannii-associated pneumon….
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RT @nz_crs: Young Scientist Grant winner Kathy Sircombe with her poster on "Development and evaluation of controlled release responsive ant….
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RT @mattmcneil86: Couple of recent publications from our group!!. 1) Awesome work from post-doc Will Jowsey showing how drug-resistance in….
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Had a great time hosting Prof. Octávio Franco from the University of Brasilia /University Dom Bosco in my lab at the #universityOfOtago this week! Enjoyed fruitful discussions on #AntimicrobialPeptides #AMR and looking forward to new collaborations between New Zealand and Brazil!
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RT @dr_leshan: Here our newest review we discuss Current and novel therapies for management of Acinetobacter baumannii-associated pneumonia….
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RT @daniel_wozniak6: Want to work on polymicrobial infections? Looking for motivated postdocs to join our team! Apply here: .
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