Physiology Meets Pathogenesis
Credit Hour(s): 2 Units
Instructor(s): TBD
Offered: TBD
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing
Lecture Topics:
- Review of microbial physiology
- Reading and critiquing scientific papers
- Carbon utilization in bacterial pathogens
- Nitrogen utilization in bacterial pathogens
- Oxygen control of bacterial virulence
- Iron acquisition systems
- Signaling
- Small RNA and riboswitching in bacterial pathogens
- Community behavior and development
- Temperature control
- Metabolic profiling methodologies