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A unique course for advanced graduate students, postdocs, and independent investigators, who are seeking thorough training in modern approaches to the study of protozoan and helminthic parasites. Limited to 16 students.
The focus of this course is on the molecular basis of parasite function and the host/parasite interaction with special emphasis on the most recent and exciting developments in these areas. The course consists of daily lectures juxtaposed with intensive experimental work. About 40 invited speakers will give a lecture in their area of expertise and meet informally with students. These lectures will cover virtually all of the systems and areas of active research in modern parasitology. The laboratory portion of the course strikes a balance between ensuring that students acquire the technical expertise necessary to pursue these areas of research in their own careers while maintaining the element of the search for the unknown. Furthermore, the students will have the opportunity to work side-by-side at the benchtop with faculty recognized as leaders in their respective fields. The following areas are among those to be covered in the experimental portion of the course: (1) antigenic variation and cytoadherence in malaria; (2) drug design and development for treatment of trypanosomiasis and malaria; (3) immunology and pathogenesis of protozoan and filarial infections and (4) host:parasite interactions using Leishmania, Toxoplasma, and Trichomonas as model systems.
This course is supported with funds provided by
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Wellcome Trust
2009 Faculty and Lecturers:
Judith Allen, University of Edinburgh
David Artis, University of Pennsylvania
Yasmine Belkaid, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
John Boothroyd, Stanford University
Iris Bruchhaus, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
George Cross, The Rockefeller University
Johanna Daily, Harvard School of Public Health
Karen Day, New York University
Kirk Deitsch, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Abdoulaye Djimde, University of Bamako
Michael Ferdig, University of Notre Dame
Kip Guy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stephen Hajduk, University of Georgia
Adrian Hehl, University of Zurich
Kent Hill, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota
Patricia Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
Jessica Kissinger, University of Georgia
Elena Levashina, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marcelo Jacobs Lorena, The Johns Hopkins University
Andrew MacDonald, University of Edinburgh
Jayne Raper, New York University Medical Center
Eleanor Riley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Isabel Roditi, Bern University
Robert Sabatini, University of Georgia
Phillip Scott, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Alan Sher, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases David Sibley, Washington University School of Medicine
Upinder Singh, Stanford University
Deborah Smith, The University of York
Boris Striepen, University of Georgia
Rick Tarleton, University of Georgia
Gary Ward, University of Vermont
Andy Waters, University of Glasgow
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