The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is one of the most persistent yeast pathogens known to man. Most people associate it only with thrush, but, as Michelle Leach explains in the video below, it is actually the fourth most common hospital-acquired bloodstream infection and has a mortality rate of 40-70%. Michelle is a post-doctoral researcher at…
We are delighted to congratulate Pascale Cossart, Faculty Member in the Microbiology Faculty, on winning the FEBS-EMBO Women in Science Award 2014. Based at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, Pascale is world renowned for her work in infectious diseases, particularly in the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes and how it causes disease. After her success last…
Since the first reports of AIDS, approximately 36 million people have died from the disease, with an estimated 35 million living with HIV. Drug therapy consists of HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy, which slows progression of the disease and lessens risk of death. Today, researchers are closer than ever to finding a functional cure and…
We would like to congratulate Pascale Cossart, Faculty Member in the Microbiology Faculty, on being awarded the Balzan Prize for her work in cellular microbiology and infectious diseases. She receives the award “for her seminal discoveries on the molecular biology of pathogenic bacteria and their interaction with host cells”. Her work on Listeria, among other…
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Congratulations to Julian Davies, Head of Faculty in Microbiology and based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on receiving the 2013 American Society of Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award! The award is bestowed upon those who make “sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences”, and it is not necessarily an annual honor. As part of…
Caltech researchers pioneer a new approach to HIV vaccination in mice via ‘vectored immunoprophylaxis’ (VIP).
Stefan Linder on actin regulatory mechanisms and intracellular trafficking along microtubules.
Leishmaniasis genome provides information with which to study the evolution of drug resistance.
A paper detailing an exciting technical advance, an RNA sequence-fluorophore complex called “Spinach”, garners 14 evaluations, making it one of the all-time highest rated papers on F1000.
