Pathobiology 552, Winter 2009
Cell Biology of Human Pathogens and Disease

1/6/09 - Lecture 1

1/8/09 - Lecture 2

1/13/09 - Lecture 3

1/15/09 - Lecture 4

1/20/09 - Lecture 5

1/22/09 - Lecture 6

1/27/09 - Presentation Session 1

1/29/09 - Lecture 7

2/3/09 - Lecture 8

2/5/09 - Lecture 9

2/10/09 - Lecture 10/Presentation Session 2

2/12/09 - Lecture 11/Apoptosis primary papers

2/14/09 - Lecture 12

2/19/09 - Lecture 13/Signaling primary paper

Thielen - Intrinsic Immunity

Textbook pp 316-326 (mobile genetic elements)

Bieniasz (required intrinsic immunity review)

Wolf & Goff (recommended intrinsic immunity review)

Exam and Proposal Handout

Primary paper:

Soroceanu et al.


2/24/09 Intrinsic immunity primary paper/presentation session 3

2/26/09 - Lecture 14

3/3/09 - Lecture 15

Lingappa - cross-presentation

Required textbook chapter: Janeway (Immunobiology), Ch. 5, p. 169-191; Ch. 8, p. 319-335.

Required literature review: Lin et al.

Primary paper: Delamarre et al.

E.  Learning Objectives:
1.  Learn types of dendritic cells and their functions.
2.  How are responses to dendritic cells modulated?
3.  What cell biologic events occur during dendritic cell maturation?
4.  How do pathogens interfere with antigen presentation?


3/5/09 - Lecture 16

Duffy - cellular immunology: parasites

Required reading: Abbas Chapter 15:  Immunity to Microbes

Recommended Reviews:

1.   Stevenson MM, Riley EM.Innate immunity to malaria.  Nat Rev Immunol. 2004 Mar;4(3):169-80. Review.

2.  Greenwood BM, Fidock DA, Kyle DE, Kappe SH, Alonso PL, Collins FH, Duffy PE. 2008. Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication. J Clin Invest. 118(4):1266-76. Review

Primary papers:

1.    Ocana-Morgner, C. et al. Malaria blood stage suppression of liver stage immunity by dendritic cells.  J Exp Med;197(2):143 (2003).

2.   Muehlenbachs A, Mutabingwa TK, Edmonds S, Fried M, Duffy PE. 2006. Hypertension and maternal-fetal conflict during placental malaria. PLoS Med. 3(11):e446.


3/10/09 - Presentation Session 4

3/12/09 - Lecture 17

Sodora - cellular immunology: viruses

Required textbook chapters: Flint SJ et al. Principles of Virology: Chapters 14 (review), 15

Recommended literature review: Silvestri G, Paiardini M, Pandrea I, Lederman MM, Sodora DL.  Understanding the benign nature of SIV infection in natural hosts. J Clin Invest  2007; 117(11):3148-54.

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Primary papers:

Virally induced CD4+ T cell depletion is not sufficient to induce AIDS in a natural host. Milush JM, Reeves JD, Gordon SN, Zhou D, Muthukumar A, Kosub DA, Chacko E, Giavedoni LD, Ibegbu CC, Cole KS, Miamidian JL, Paiardini M, Barry AP, Staprans SI, Silvestri G, Sodora DL. J Immunol  2007; 179(5):3047-56.

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