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At last month’s American Society of Microbiology meeting in Denver, our Publisher Kathleen Wets met with up with some of the Faculty of F1000Prime: Faculty Member Joanna Goldberg and Section Head Tom Silhavy. She also visited Philippa Marrack, Head of the Immunology Faculty, at the National Jewish Health in Denver. All were kind enough to spare some time to talk about their research in the following videos.

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Philippa Marrack explains how the quest to understand T cells and their interactions with antigens continues to be as interesting and exciting as it was when she started 40 years ago. Her current interests lie in the life and death of T cells, the mechanisms behind vaccines and the puzzle of why women have a greater incidence of autoimmune diseases than men.

Tom Silhavy, a bacterial geneticist at Princeton University, is one of the Section Heads for the Microbial Physiology & Metabolism section in the Microbiology Faculty. Here, Professor Silhavy talks to us about his primary research interest: protein targeting. By studying Escherichia coli, Professor Silhavy’s lab hopes to identify the complex regulatory mechanisms and secretion machinery that allow protein translocation and the biogenesis of the outer membrane.

Joanna Goldberg, a professor in the department of Pediatrics at Emory School of Medicine, is a Faculty Member in the Microbiology Faculty. In this video, Professor Goldberg explains her lab’s focus on infections in cystic fibrosis patients, specifically how the interactions between the pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex cause disease in this vulnerable population.