Conference abbreviation: workshop
Title:
Molecular Mycology: Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis
ID: 1234
Date uploaded: 17 April 2013
Conference Year: 2013
Postal Address:
NULL
Location:
Woods Hole, USA
Further information:
This course is designed to train advanced graduate students, post-docs, and independent investigators in different molecular methods used to study human fungal pathogens, and the models at the forefront of research to uncover the mechanisms that underlie fungal diseases and their treatment. Limited to 18 students.
Training is provided through laboratory exercises and demonstrations, lectures by resident faculty and visiting seminar speakers, and informal panel discussions. Laboratory exercises focus primarily on Candida, Aspergillus, and Cryptococcus, and focus on different areas such as genetic manipulation of fungi, cell culture and in vivo pathogenicity and host response assays, genomic analyses, assessment of genome instability, antifungal resistance assays, and the microscopic analysis of fungi. Students are presented with the current views of pathogenesis of different key human fungal pathogens and the approaches used to study these fungi. In order to broaden students understanding of the field, invited seminar speakers provide further insight into Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus biology and present work on other fungi such as Histoplasma, Coccidioides, and Pneumocystis. Specialized lectures in areas relating to drug discovery, molecular diagnostic techniques, virulence, genome structure and evolution, mating, vaccine strategies, and host defenses are also included. Panel discussions focus on issues in medical mycology, development of new research techniques and paradigms, and topics relating to professional development within the field of fungal pathogenesis
Conferences
-
Title
Location
Start / End date
Link