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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 by grants from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and Merck.
2007 Faculty and Lecturers:
Judith Allen, University of Edinburgh
David Artis, University of Pennsylvania
Antonio Barragan, Karolinska Institute
Katja Becker, Giessen University
Yasmine Belkaid, NIH
Stephen Beverley, Washington Univ. School of Medicine
John Boothroyd, Stanford University
Isabelle Coppens, Johns Hopkins University
Kirk Deitsch, Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
Mark Drew, Washington Universtiy School of Medicine
Heidi Elmendorf, Georgetown University
Paul Englund, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Markus Engstler, Darmstadt University of Technology
Michael Ferdig, U. Notre Dame
Francisco Gamarro, Instituto de Parasitología , CSIC
Daniel Goldberg, Washington University
R. Kip Guy, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kasturi Haldar, Northwestern University
David Horn, London Sch. Hyg. Trop. Med.
Stefan Kappe, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Jessica Kissinger, University of Georgia
Andrew MacDonald, University of Edinburgh
James McKerrow, University of California, San Francisco
Victor Nussenzweig, NYU School of Medicine
Sean Prigge, Johns Hopkins SPH
Pradipsinh Rathod, University of Washington
David Roos, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Sabatini, University of Georgia
Phillip Scott, University of Pennsylvania
Theresa Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
Alan Sher, NIH
David Sibley, Washington Univ. Sch. Med.
Upinder Singh, Stanford University
Boris Striepen, University of Georgia
Ken Stuart, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Rick Tarleton, University of Georgia
Gary Ward, University of Vermont
Andy Waters, LUMC
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