Biosciences Research Seminar - The role of macrophage in Cryptococcus infection
Part of the Biosciences lunchtime research seminar series
Speaker: Dr Simon Johnston, Senior Research Fellow in Infectious Disease, University of Sheffield. Host: Dr Sumita Roy, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
| A Biosciences seminar | |
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| Date | 24 November 2022 |
| Time | 12:30 to 13:30 |
| Place | LSI Seminar Room A and via MS Teams |
Event details
Abstract
The research in the lab mainly focuses how opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised people, in particular Cryptococcus species. Cryptococcus is a human pathogen and causes hundreds of thousands of deaths in the severely immunocompromised world-wide each year. We want to understand the fundamental process of how immune system functions during the infection and how macrophage mediated immunity play a role during Cryptococcus infection and the mechanism of phagocytosis of these opportunistic fungi. We use a multidisciplinary approach to understand the infection mechanism and the regulation of the uptake mechanism of fungi.
Location:
LSI Seminar Room A
