Microbial Pathogenesis – Assigned Articles (January)

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1. Tuesday January 10, 2006 – What is a pathogen? (Dr. Norris presenting)

Assigned article:

Eckburg PB et al. (2005) Diversity of the human intestinal microbial flora. Science 308:1635-1638. pdf, Supplement

Related article:

Relman DA and S Falkow. (2001) The meaning and impact of the human genome sequence for microbiology. Trends Microbiol. 206-208. pdf

2. Thursday, January 12, 2006 – Virulence Factors/Grant Writing (Dr. Garsin presenting)

Assigned article:

Lueller F (2005) The Drosophila immune system detects bacteria through specific peptidoglycan recognition. Nature Immunology 4:478-484. pdf

Eukaryotic pathogens – Michael Lorenz, Ph.D.

3. Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Assigned article:

Sheppard DC et al. (2004) Functional and Structural Diversity in the Als Protein Family of Candida albicans. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 30480-30489. pdf

4. Thursday, January 19, 2006

Assigned article:

Verstrepen KJ, Jansen A, Lewitter F, Fink GR (2005) Intragenic tandem repeats generate functional variability. Nat. Genet. 37: 986-990. pdf

5. Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Assigned article:

Castano I, Pan SJ, Zupancic M, Hennequin C, Dujon B, Cormack BP (2005) Telomere length control and transcriptional regulation of subtelomeric adhesins in Candida glabrata. Mol. Microbiol. 55: 1246-1258. pdf

6. Thursday, January 26, 2006

Assigned article:

Duraisingh MT et al. (2005) Heterochromatin silencing and locus repositioning linked to regulation of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Cell 121: 13-24. pdf

7. Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Assigned article:

Sheader K, Vaughan S, Minchin J, Hughes K, Gull K, Rudenko G (2005) Variant surface glycoprotein RNA interference triggers a precytokinesis cell cycle arrest in African trypanosomes. PNAS 102: 8716-8721. pdf