Infection Research Area Seminars 2012/2013
20th September Dr Tobias Spielman, BNI Hamburg
“Protein export and host cell modifications in blood stages of the human malaria parasite
Plasmodium falciparum”
4th October Dr Juian Marchesi, University of Cardiff
"Superorganism biology: A 21st century paradigm which will change the way we think about
clinical medicine"
25th October Dr Christoph Baumann, University of York
"Diffusion in the bacterial outer membrane: more mosaic than fluid"
15th November Professor Frank Sargent, University of Dundee
"Biochemistry at the bacterial cells surface"
29th November Professor Michael Boshart, LMU Munich
"Host Immunity Subversion by Trypanosomes and the Evolution of the cAMP-PKA signaling"
6th December Professor Lars Kastrup, MPI Gottingen
"STED Microscopy - Concepts and Recent Developments"
17th January 2013 Prof George Salmond, University of Cambridge
“Bacterial gang culture: attack, defence and suicide in the microbial world”
7th February Dr Dave Clarke, STFC Rutherford Appleton
“Advanced Laser Imaging and Spectroscopy for the Life Sciences in the Research Complex at
Harwell”
14th March Dr Volker Heussler, University of Bern
"Regulated proteolytic activity is required for motility and invasion of Plasmodium sporozoites"
11th April Dr Jennifer Ritchie, University of Surrey
“In vivo insights into the biology and virulence mechanisms of food-borne bacterial pathogens”
2nd May Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Institute Cochin, Paris
Host cell invasion by Toxoplasma: how zoite deal with the host cell cytoskeleton cortex
9th May Dr David Horn, LSHTM
“High throughput decoding of drug targets and drug-resistance mechanisms in African
trypanosomes"
16th May Dr Tom Clarke, University of East Anglia
"A flexible respiratory pathway in the emerging pathogen Shewanella"