Molecular basis and stability of attenuation of live Mycoplasma synoviae vaccine by Dr Sahar Zare

Presented: Tuesday 2 August 2022

Presenter: Dr Sahar Zare DVM

Host: Dr Marc Marenda DVM PhD

Topic: ‘Molecular basis and stability of attenuation of live Mycoplasma synoviae vaccine'

In This Talk: Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) is a pathogen in poultry and turkeys, which causes significant economic loss to the intensive poultry production due to reduced egg production, respiratory disease, lameness, and downgrade of egg quality. The MS-H vaccine is a live attenuated MS vaccine, registered in over 50 countries around the world. This talk discusses a study, which used MS-H strain as a model to understand the molecular mechanism behind its attenuation (and therefore on virulence of MS), which will also develop a technique for manipulation of specific genes that underwent mutations.

About the Presenter: Dr Sahar Zare graduated with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Shiraz, Iran. During her DVM, Dr Zare found microbiology interesting, so she undertook her DVM thesis in bacteriology (molecular typing of Staphylococcus aureus). Following graduation, Dr Zare undertook further research in a microbiology lab. at her vet. school, in addition to working as a research scholar for 6 months at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science, Texas A&M University, where she worked on Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) E-coli. In 2019, she was accepted as a PhD student at The University of Melbourne, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was only able to take up her PhD in August 2021. This was Dr Zare’s PhD confirmation seminar.

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