Bacterial Pathogenesis Journal Club
GMS7192
Fall 2004
Wednesday, 12:00-1:00
R2-265
Director: Dr. Shouguang Jin (sjin@mgm.ufl.edu)

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Schedule

Date Presenter Article
8/24 Weihui Wu "Sensing wetness: A new role for the bacterial flagellum" (The EMBO Journal 24:2034-2042, 2005)
8/31 Ann Griswold "Genome-wide RNAi screen for host factors required for intracellular bacterial infection" (Science 309:1248-1251); Supporting material; Related article: "Drosophila RNAi screen reveals CD36 family member required for mycobacterial infection" (Science 309:1251-1253); Supporting material
9/7 Jennifer Joseph "Listeria monocytogenes exploits ERM protein functions to efficiently spread from cell to cell"  (The EMBO Journal (2005) 24, 1287-1300) Sascha Pust, Helen Morrison, Jurgen Wehland, Antonio S Sechi,and Peter Herrlich
9/14 Roslyn Frank Cyclic diguanylate regulates Vibrio cholerae virulence gene expression.  Tischler AD, Camilli A.  Infect Immun. 2005 Sep;73(9):5873-82.
9/21 Matt Tucker "Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage" (PNAS 102(17):6119-6124, 2005) and "Seasonal epidemics of cholera inversely correlate with the prevalence of environmental cholera phages" (PNAS 102(5):17-2-1707, 2005); supplemental info: cholera epidemic 1:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0502069102/DC1; cholera epidemic 2:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0408992102/DC1
9/28 Dr. Jinghua Jia “Membrane vesicles traffic signals and facilitate group activities in a prokaryote” (Nature 437:422-425, 2005) L.M. Mashburn and M. Whiteley
10/5 Dr. Paul Gulig Contact-dependent inhibition of growth in Escherichia coli.  Aoki SK, Pamma R, Hernday AD, Bickham JE, Braaten BA, Low DA.  Science. 2005 Aug 19;309(5738):1245-8.; supplemental material
10/12 Dr. Jyot Jeevan "Aminoglycoside antibiotics induce bacterial biofilm formation" Nature. 2005 Aug 25;436(7054):1171-5.  Hoffman LR, D'Argenio DA, MacCoss MJ, Zhang Z, Jones RA, Miller SI
10/19 Ellen Bishai J Cell Sci. 2005 Apr 1;118(Pt 7):1537-47. WASP-related proteins, Abi1 and Ena/VASP are required for Listeria invasion induced by the Met receptor.  Bierne H, Miki H, Innocenti M, Scita G, Gertler FB, Takenawa T, Cossart P.
10/26 Dr. Amrisha Verma Andersen-Nissen E, Smith KD, Strobe KL, Barrett SL, Cookson BT, Logan SM, Aderem A. Evasion of toll-like receptor 5 by flagellated bacteria. PNAS 102(26):9247-9252, 2005.
11/2 Dr. Gurjit Sidhu Phosphoinositide 3-kinase is required for intracellular Listeria monocytogenes actin-based motility and filopod formation (Journal of Bacterial Chemistry 280(12):11379-11386, 2005)
11/9 Russell During Dendritic Cells Endocytose Bacillus anthracis Spores: Implications for Anthrax Pathogenesis.  The Journal of Immunology, 2005, 174: 5545-5552.
11/16 Dr. Shouguang Jin "Plague bacteria target immune cells during infection" Science (2005) 309:1739-1741; supplemental material
11/23 Thanksgiving Eve No Class !!
11/30 Dr. Avanash Sonawane  
12/7 Rotation Reports (11:45) First Year Immuno/Micro Students