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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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Fungal Pathogens and Interaction with their Hosts - MB140P31E
Title: Fungal Pathogens and Interaction with their Hosts
Czech title: Houbové patogeny a jejich interakce s hostitelem
Guaranteed by: Department of Genetics and Microbiology (31-140)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 3
4EU+: yes
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Derek Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Derek Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Major fungal pathogens including Candida and thermally dimorphic species. Topics include: innate and adaptive
immunity, nutritional immunity and host cell metabolism as well as fungal virulence
Last update: Lichá Irena, RNDr., CSc. (14.05.2021)
Syllabus

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Routes of infection and host defences

Lecture 3: How host cells identify pathogens and how pathogens evade recognition

Lecture 4: How the host attacks pathogens and how pathogens resist

Lecture 5: How phagocytes kill pathogens intracelularly and how pathogens survivie

Lecture 6: Host nutritional immunity and pathogen countermeasures

Lecture 7: Metabolic reprogramming of host and pathogen

Lecture 8: Signaling pathways in host and pathogen

Lecture 9: Evolution in host and pathogen

Lecture 10: Biofilms and persister cells

Lecture 11: Candida and Saccharomyces species in greater depth

Lecture 12: Dimorphic species in greater depth

Lecture 13: Review lecture

Last update: Wilkinson Derek, Ph.D. (17.02.2025)
 
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