UMD Host Pathogen Interactions Graduate Program

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April 7th, 2012:Dr. Diane Griffith, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at noon-1, BRB “Role of the immune response in alphavirus encephalomyelitis”
April 13th, 2012: Dr. Kathy Spindler, University Michigan School of Medicine at noon-1, BRB “Molecular mechanisms of viral neuroinvasion”
May 4th, 2012: Dr. Suzie Fleiszig, University of California-Berkeley at noon-1, BRB “Pathogenesis of bacterial infections of the cornea”
May 18th, 2012: Dr. Denise Monack, Stanford University School of Medicine at noon-1, BRB “Establishing a replicative niche in Salmonella persistent infections”
June 15th, 2012: UMCP/UMB CrossTalk Symposium on Host-Pathogen Interactions All day IBBR, Shady Grove Campus

Admissions and Application Process Students apply to the Host-Pathogen Interactions Graduate Program by completing an application to the University of Maryland’s Graduate School. Review the complete admissions requirements and application information.

The Host-Pathogen Interactions Training Program offers a unique curriculum that will immerse students in interdisciplinary host-pathogen research, striving to integrate advances in pathogenesis with genomics, bioinformatics, and engineering. Our training program will have a strong translational research component, as trainees will interact not only with experts in their own research area, but with scientists in other disciplines, such as computer sciences, bioengineering, environmental sciences, etc. Review the comprehensive curriculum.

Dr. Najib El-Sayed recently lead a

research team in sequencing the genome of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum, the pathogens that cause the debilitating disease schistosomiasis. This work, published in the July 15 issue of

Nature, has already uncovered targets for new treatments for the disease, which causes fever and fatigue. Read more details about Dr. El-Sayed's reasearch.