When:
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Dr. Hank Seifert
(312) 503-9788
Group: Department of Microbiology-Immunology Seminars/Events
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Microbiology-Immunology Seminar Series
Salmonella serovars sidestep the competition with resident microbes by using their virulence factors to coerce the host into creating a novel nutrient-niche. Inflammation-derived nutrients available in this new niche support a bloom of Salmonella serovars in the gut lumen, thereby ensuring transmission of the pathogen to the next susceptible host by the fecal oral route. This presentation will review the ‘winning metabolic strategy’ Salmonella serovars use to edge out competing microbes in the inflamed intestine.
Andreas J. Baumler, PhD
University of California Davis, School of Medicine
Host: Hank Seifert, PhD