In this video I chat with Peter Lidsky, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he works on his interests in the role of viruses in aging and evolution.
Before that, Peter studied enteroviruses and then moved to Switzerland, where he joined the laboratory of Christian Lehner at the University of Zurich. There, he switched his focus to Drosophila melanogaster, a model organism for studying gene regulation and development. In 2017, Lidsky moved to the US and joined the laboratory of Raul Andino at UCSF. He has been involved in several projects but here we chat predominantly about his 'Pathogen Control Strategy' to explain why aging evolved.

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