CAMB 548 Bacterial Pathogenesis

CAMB 548 Bacterial Pathogenesis 2008

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 and biofilm formation [March 17, 19, 21]

Jay Zhu          

junzhu@mail.med.upenn.edu

2)         Signal transduction in bacterial pathogens [March 24, 26, 28]

           Michael  Sebert        

            sebert@email.chop.edu

3)         Strategies for Adhesin and invasion  [March 31, April 2, 4]

             Dieter Schifferli

dmschiff@vet.upenn.edu

4)         Evolution of bacterial pathogens [April 7, 9, 11]

            Dustin Brisson          

dbrisson@sas.upenn.edu          

5)         Bacterial secretion systems   [April 14, 16, 18]

            Mecky Pohlschröder

            pohlschr@sas.upenn.edu

6)         Paradigms of intracellular survival [April 21, 23, 25]

            Hao Shen

            hshen@mail.med.upenn.edu

7)         Pathogenomics [April 28, 30, May 2]

            Michael  Sebert        

      sebert@email.chop.edu

Take-home exam