Host-Pathogen Interactions
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Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission |
Emerging viruses including paramyxoviruses, flaviviruses and filoviruses |
Virus/Host interaction; viral domination of protein synthesis; antiviral compounds, systems biology of viral hemorrhagic fever, novel approaches to virus detection |
Chairman
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Paramyxovirus pathogenesis, vaccine development and virus-cell interactions |
Control of respiratory syncytial virus RNA synthesis |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory networks |
Correlates of immunity in human schistosomiasis; inflammatory bowel disease; B cell in human disease |
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Microbial pathogenesis, vaccine development, host-parasite interactions, and bacterial gene regulation |
HIV immune evasion mechanisms |
Cellular signals that regulate HIV transcription and replication |
Reproductive immunology and the pathogenesis of gonococcal and chlamydia infections |
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Genes controling host resistance and susceptibility to tuberculosis; biology of tuberculosis granulomas; mechanisms of macrophage activation and differentiation |
Acute lower respiratory tract infection; cytokines; innate immunity; neutrophil recruitment and activation; pneumonia; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression |
Host response to filovirus infection; molecular mechanisms of filovirus replication and transcription |
Structure of the diphtheria toxin repressor; diphtheria toxin calalytic domain and entry into the eukaryotic cell cytosol; structure-function of IL7 |
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Molecular biology of HIV-1; the role of virus-host cell interactions in pathogenesis |
Vaccine development; microbial immunity and pathogenesis; effect of bacterial products on eukaryotic cells |
