CAMB 548 Bacterial Pathogenesis

CAMB 548 Bacterial Pathogenesis

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:15-2:15 pm, Johnson 209.

1)         Overview: basic approaches to the analysis of host-pathogen interaction            Bacterial cell-cell communications  [March 12, 14, 16]

Jay Zhu

junzhu@mail.med.upenn.edu

* Joint discussion with Paula Watnick after her March 16 ProK seminar.  Lunch provided.

2)         Signal transduction in bacterial pathogens  [March 19, 21, 23]

           Michael  Sebert

            sebert@email.chop.edu

3)         Strategies for Adhesin and invasion  [March 26, 28, 30]

             Dieter Schifferli

dmschiff@vet.upenn.edu

4)         Evolution of bacterial pathogens [April 2, 4, 6]

            Dustin Brisson

dbrisson@sas.upenn.edu

5)         Bacterial secretion systems   [April 9, 11, 13]

            Ming  Yuk

            mingy@mail.med.upenn.edu

6)         Paradigms of intracellular survival [April 16, 18, 20]

            Hao Shen

            hshen@mail.med.upenn.edu

* Joint discussion with Dr. Darren Higgins after his April 18 seminar. Lunch provided.

7)         Pathogenomics [April 23, 25, 27]

            Michael  Sebert

      sebert@email.chop.edu

Take-home exam