Journal Club

Journal Club is the course Microbiology & Immunology Literature. It is held each semester, with the student taking it for credit once. The club consists of a series of reports of current scientific literature in microbiology and immunology presented by an individual student each week and encourages input from fellow students on the article posted in advance.

Monday, May 6, 2013 - IL-1β Production through the NLRP3 Inflammasome by Hepatic Macrophages Links Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Liver Inflammation and Disease (Sanghita Sarkar)

Monday, April 29, 2013 - Neutrophils Confer T Cell Resistance to Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell-Mediated Suppression To Promote Chronic Inflammation (Chris Jondle)

Monday, April 15, 2013 - Two-Component Signal Transduction System CBO0787/CBO0786 Represses Transcription from Botulinum Neurotoxin Promoters in Clostridium botulinum AtCC 3502 (Brandee Stone)

Monday, April 8, 2013 -Inflammasome Adaptor Protein Apoptosis-Associated Speck-Like Protein Containing CARD (ASC) Is Critical for the Immune Response and Survival in West Nile Virus Encephalitis (Nicole Haese)

Monday, March 25, 2013 - STING/MPYS Mediates Host Defense against Listeria monocytogenes Infection by Regulating Ly6C^hi Moncyte Migration (Fredice Quenum-Zangbede)

Monday, March 11, 2013 - B1a Cells Enhance Susceptibility to Infection with Virulent Francisella tularensis via Modulation of NK/NKT Cell Responses (Bobby Gaultney)

Monday, March 4, 2013 - Salmonella Downregulates Nod-like Receptor Family CARD Domain Containing Protein 4 Expression to Promote Its Survival in B Cells by preventing Inflammasome Activation and Cell Death  (Patrick Osei-Owusu)

Monday, February 25, 2013 - Entercoccus faecalis Inhibits Hyphal Morphogenesis and Virulence of Candida albicans (Promisree Choudhury)

Monday, February 11, 2013 - Cyclosporine A Impairs Nucleotide Binding Oligomerization Domain (Nod1)-Mediated Innate Antibacterial Renal Defenses in Mice and Human Transplant Recipients (Ashley Fink)

Monday, February 4, 2013 - Immunity to Intracellular Salmonella Depends on Surface-associated Antigens (Lisa Burnette)

Monday, January 28, 2013 - Complement Mediated Signaling on Pulmonary CD103⁺ Dendritic Cells Is Critical for Their Migratory Function in Response to Influenza Infection (Danielle Jessen)

Monday, January 14, 2013 - Nasal Colonisation by Staphylococcus aureus Depends upon Clumping Factor B Binding to the Squamous Epithelial Cell Envelope Protein Loricrin (Anthony Steichen)

Monday, December 3, 2012 - NK Cells Regulate CD8⁺ T Cell Priming and Dendritic Cell Migration during Influenza A Infection by IFN-γ and Perforin-Dependent Mechanisms (Fredice Quenum Zangbede)

Monday, November 26, 2012 - Cyclic Di-GMP Stimulates Biofilm Formation and Inhibits Virulence of Francisella novicida (Brandee Stone)

Monday, November 19, 2012 - Myeloid-Related Protein-14 Contibutes to Protective Immunity in Gram-Negative Pneumonia Derived Sepsis (Christopher Jondle)

Monday, November 5, 2012 - Anti-Peptidoglycan Antibodies and Fcγ Receptors Are the Key Mediators of Inflammation in Gram-Positive Sepsis (Nicole Haese)

Monday, October 29, 2012 - Humanized TLR4/MD-2 Mice Reveal LPS Recongnition Differentially Impacts Susceptibility to Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica (Danielle Jessen)

Monday, October 22, 2012 - The Amino Acid Sequence of Neisseria lactamica PorB Surface-Exposed Loops Influences Toll-Like Receptor 2-Dependent Cell Activation (PatrickOsei-Owusu)

Monday, October 15, 2012 - Genetic Ablation of Arginase 1 in Macrophages and Neutrophils Enhances Clearance of an Arthritogenic Alphavirus (Ashley Fink)

Monday, October 8, 2012 - The Pore-Forming Toxin β hemolysin/cytolysin Triggers p38 MAPK-Dependent IL-10 Production in Macrophages and Inhibits Innate Immunity (Sanghita Sarkar)

Monday, October 1, 2012 - Roles of ATM and ATR-Mediated DNA Damage Responses during Lytic BK Polyomavirus Infection (Bobby Gaultney)

Monday, September 24, 2012 - A Ferritin Mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Highly Susceptible to Killing by Antibiotics and Is Unable To Establish a Chronic Infection in Mice (Promisree Choudhury)

 Monday, September 17, 2012 - Near Surface Swimming of Salmonella Typhimurium Explains Target-Site Selection and Cooperative Invasion (Lisa Burnette)

Monday, September 10, 2012 - Toll-Like Receptor 2 Deficiency Increases Resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia in the Setting of Sepsis-Induced Immune Dysfunction (Anthony Steichen)