| CB4990 Cellular Biology Senior Seminar 2005: Cellular Biology of Infection: This class will meet each Wednesday 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. in room 625 Biological Sciences Building. We will discuss primary data papers covering research in the area of cell biology of infection. This will span a broad area of infectious organisms including parasites, bacteria, viruses and prions. We will mix 'classic' papers that represent major breakthroughs as well as very recent articles at the cutting edge of current infectious disease research. The focus will be on cellular and molecular mechanisms that infectious agents use to invade, to undermine the hosts counter measures and to cause disease. The expectation is that *every* student has read the paper to be discussed during each given meeting. We will go through the paper figure by figure following the experiments described. For each figure another student will be asked to describe what was done, why and what was learned. That keeps everybody awake. This is not a lecture course and most of the contributions will come from the students. Dr. Striepen will help to guide the discussion and provide back up information where needed but please feel very much 'in charge' of this class. The papers covered in the seminars are posted as pdf files (you will need the free adobe acrobat reader to read these files on your computer). In any case all journals used are available at the UGA Science Library . The grading scheme is A-F. |