Activities

Each participating research group is presents twice per month on the 1st and 3rd Thursday's each month at noon in GBSF 6202.  Typically students, research associates and postdoctoral fellows present their work in progress.  Short presentations are encouraged to maximize time for discussion.  In some cases, new research members present an overview of their work prior to joining a UCD laboratory to provide the group with new areas of expertise that is in our research community.  Also, journal articles directly relevant to ongoing studies are sometimes presented for trainees just starting or shifting direction of their own investigations.

Dr. Renee Tsolis has organized a journal cub held on the 4th Thursday of each month in the same place (GBSF 6202) and time (noon) as the research meetings.  Faculty, students, postdocs and research staff interested in any aspect of host-pathogen interactions, with a broader scope than innate immunity/bacterial pathogens are encouraged to participate in this journal club. The topic is intended to be broad and to include researchers with interest in both the host and the pathogen sides of the interactions leading to disease.  The goal of this journal club is to provide a forum for interaction and for training our students in critical discussion of the scientific literature. 

 

Recent Presentations:

• Liu et al (2006) Science 133;1770, Toll-Like Receptor Triggering of a Vitamin D–Mediated Human Antimicrobial Response
• Suzuki, et al (2006) PNAS 103:4252 Interaction between the membrane protein of a pathogen and insect microfilament complex determines insect-vector specificity
• Janjusevic et al. (2006), Science, 2006, 311:322, A bacterial inhibitor of programmed cell death is an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase.
• Watkins and Salter (2005), Immunity 23:309. Functional Connectivity between Immune Cells Mediated by Tunneling Nanotubules.
• Dostert et al. (2005), Nat Immunol. 6:946, The Jak-STAT signaling pathway is required but not sufficient for the antiviral response of drosophila.
• Lu, et al (2006), JBC  281: 5895, Peptidoglycan recognition proteins are a new class of human bactericidal proteins.
• Cliffe et al. (2005), Science 308:1463, Accelerated Intestinal Epithelial Cell turnover: A new mechanism of parasite expulsion.
• Sarkis et al (2005) Cell 122: 107, An Immunomodulatory Molecule of Symbiotic Bacteria Directs Maturation of the Host Immune System
• Salaun, et al (2005 Microbiology 151:917,  Phase variation mediated niche adaptation during prolonged experimental murine infection with Helicobacter pylori
• Marketon et al (2005), Science 309:1739, Plague bacteria target immune cells during infection.
  Lee, et al (2005), PNAS  102: 3750, Expression of an additional cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide protects against bacterial skin infection.

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