Microbiology & Immunology

BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS JOURNAL CLUB 2018 - 2019

Presenter for Monday, December 10th: Mary O’Riordan, Ph.D.
Paper: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alters cell wall glycosylation to evade immunity

BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS JOURNAL CLUB 2018 - 2019

BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS JOURNAL CLUB 2018 - 2019
Time: Every other Monday from 10:00 – 11:00 am starting October 1, 2018
Contacts: Joyce Wang (wangjoy@umich.edu) and Anna Sintsova (annasint@med.umich.edu)
Some guidelines about presentations:
• Presentations should be ~30-45 min.
• The paper to be presented must be emailed to Joyce Wang (wangjoy@med.umich.edu) as a PDF by Friday one week before the presentation. It is the responsibility of the lab PI to assign presenters for the journal club.

Together with the Immunology Program and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the Association of Korean Immunologists in America (AKIA) will hold a  "Symposium on Immunity, Infection, and Inflammation" on August 3, 2018 in the BSRB ABC seminar rooms.

The next BPJC meeting will be this Friday November 17 at 3pm in 5613 MSII.  Ryan Berger from Mary O'Riordan's Laboratory will present: "Pseudomonas aeruginosa Transmigrates at Epithelial Cell-Cell Junctions, Exploiting Sites of Cell Division and Senescent Cell Extrusion" by Golovkine et al.  PLoS Pathog. 2016 Jan 4;12(1):e1005377. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005377. eCollection 2016 Jan.  The paper is attached and can be found here.

The Bacterial Pathogenesis Journal Club (BPJC) will meet Friday November 3 at 3pm in 5613 MSII.  Elisa Hughes from Michelle Swanson's Laboratory will present: "Contribution of reactive oxygen species to thymineless death in Escherichia coli" by Hong et al.  Nature Microbiology (2017) doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0037-y.  The paper is attached and can be found here.

Please join us next Friday at 3pm.  Refreshments will be provided by the Swanson Lab.