Bacterial Pathogenesis Journal Club
GMS7192
Fall 2006
Wednesday, 12:00-1:00
R2-265
Director: Dr. Shouguang Jin (sjin@mgm.ufl.edu)

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(Previous Schedule and Papers:  Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006)

Schedule

Date Presenter Article
8/23   Organizational Meeting
8/30 Ms. Roslyn Frank Eto DS, Sundsbak JL, Mulvey MA. Actin-gated intracellular growth and resurgence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli.  Cell Microbiol. 2006 Apr;8(4):704-17.
9/6 Ms. Jennifer Joseph Escherichia coli Induces DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Eukaryotic Cells.  Jean-Philippe Nougayrède, Stefan Homburg, Frédéric Taieb, Michèle Boury,Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Gerhard Gottschalk, Carmen Buchrieser, Jörg Hacker, Ulrich Dobrindt, Eric Oswald.  Science 11 313:848 - 851.
9/13 Dr. Weihu Wu Targeting of Host Rab GTPase Function by the Intravacuolar Pathogen Legionella pneumophilaM.P. Machner and R.R. Isberg.  Dev Cell. 2006 Jul;11:47-56.
9/20 Mr. Harald Messer "Autophagy controls Salmonella infection in response to damage to the Salmonella-containing vacuole" (JBC 201:11374-11383, 2006)
9/27 Dr. Ann R. Griswold

Lysophospholipid sensing triggers secretion of flagellin from pathogenic salmonella.  N. Subramanian & A. Qadri.  Nature Immunology 7, 583 - 589 (2006)

10/4 Dr. Amrish Verma "Identification of glycosylation genes and glycosylated amino acids of flagellin in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci" (Cellular Microbiology 8[6]:923-938, 2006)
10/11 Ms. Ellen Bishai "An Ixodes scapularis protein required for survival of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in tick salivary glands"  (Journal of Experimental Medicine 203[6]:1507-1517, 2006)
10/18 Dr. Gurjit Sidhu 1:00 “Ptdlns(5)P activates the host cell P13-kinase/Akt pathway during Shigella flexneri infection” (The EMBO Journal 25:1024-1034, 2006)
10/25 Ms. Crystal Harpley "Expression and assembly of a functional type IV secretion system elicit extracytoplasmic and cytoplasmic stress responses in Escherichia coli".  (Journal of Bacteriology 188:6611-6621, 2006)
11/1 Dr. Jyot Jeevan "Homologue of 3-oxoacyl-(acyl carrier protein) synthase III gene located in glycosylation island of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci regulates virulence factors via N-acyl homoserine lactone and fatty acid synthesis" Taguchi F, Ogawa Y, Takeuchi K, Suzuki T, Toyoda K, Shiraishi T, Ichinose Y.  J Bacteriol. 2006 Oct 6; [Epub ahead of print]
11/8 Mr. Russell During "Anthrax lethal toxin has direct and potent inhibitory effects on B cell proliferation and immunoglobulin production"  (The Journal of Immunology 176:61556161, 2006)
11/15    
11/22 No journal club  
11/29 Mr. Jeffrey Mans "An alternative bactericidal mechanism of action for lantibiotic peptides that target lipid II" (Science 313:1636-1637, 2006)
12/6 ?