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   'Missing Microbes' author Dr. Martin Blaser to speak on overuse of antibiotics   
      
   January 05, 2015   
      
   By Tim Stephens   
      
   Dr. Martin Blaser, author of the book Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of   
   Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues, will give a public lecture on   
   Thursday, January 15, at 7 p.m. at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz. Tickets are   
   free and can be reserved    
   online at Eventbrite.   
      
   Dr. Blaser's lecture, "Our Disappearing Microbes," has been organized by the   
   UC Santa Cruz Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology to mark   
   the department's 15th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz.   
      
   In Missing Microbes, Blaser described how the discovery of antibiotics ushered   
   in a golden age of medicine, and then traced the adverse effects of our   
   subsequent overuse of these seeming wonder drugs. According to Blaser, overuse   
   of antibiotics has    
   contributed to the rise of the "modern plagues" of obesity, asthma, allergies,   
   diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. Blaser's studies suggest antibiotic use   
   during early childhood poses the greatest risk to long-term health, and,   
   alarmingly, American    
   children receive on average about 17 courses of antibiotics before they are   
   twenty years old. In his talk, Blaser will present the evidence in support of   
   his theory and explain what people can do to avoid even more catastrophic   
   health problems in the    
   future.   
      
   Dr. Blaser is the George and Muriel Singer Professor of Medicine, Professor of   
   Microbiology, and Director of the Human Microbiome Program at the New York   
   University School of Medicine. He served as chair of the Department of   
   Medicine at NYU from 2000 to    
   2012. A physician and microbiologist, Dr. Blaser is interested in   
   understanding the relationships we have with our persistently colonizing   
   bacteria. His work over the past 30 years focused on human pathogens,   
   including Campylobacter species and    
   Helicobacter pylori, which also are model systems for understanding   
   interactions of residential bacteria with their human hosts. Over the last   
   decade, he has been actively studying the relationship of the human microbiome   
   to health and such important    
   diseases as asthma, obesity, diabetes, and allergies.   
      
   An elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American   
   Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Blaser has served as President of the   
   Infectious Diseases Society of America, Chair of the Board of Scientific   
   Counselors of the National Cancer    
   Institute, and Chair of the Advisory Board for Clinical Research of the   
   National Institutes of Health. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory   
   Board of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.   
      
   For more information about this lecture, contact Allyson Ramage at (831)   
   459-4719 or metxadmn@ucsc.edu.   
      
      
      
   http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/01/blaser-lecture.html   
      
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