AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition
    Biomembranes and Emerging Tools in Bioscience Plenary Session Sunday Sessions
       Session BP+AS-SuA

Invited Paper BP+AS-SuA1
A "GoogleMAP"-type Molecular View of Microbes and Biofilms - From Culture to People

Sunday, October 27, 2013, 3:00 pm, Room 201 B

Session: Biomembranes and Emerging Tools in Bioscience Plenary Session
Presenter: P.C. Dorrestein, University of California San Diego
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The world is covered in one large biofilm. The molecules the microbes produce affect all areas of biology-from crop growth to the balance of health and disease in humans. In this presentation we highlight the spatial analysis of molecules and mapping of structural space through molecular networking using a variety of mass spectrometry and informatics methodologies. We will show its applicability to understanding the molecular nature of interacting microbes grown in Petri-dishes all the way to interacting microbes on people. In effect we are beginning to lay the foundation to create a "GoogleMAP" for our molecular understanding of microbes.