About
Robin MAY – Institute of Microbiology & Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
My group are interested in host-pathogen interactions and, in particular, in understanding how some fungal pathogens are able to subvert the innate immune system. In this talk I will discuss our recent work in probing the interaction between macrophages and the fatal fungal pathogen Cryptococcus. In particular, I will discuss what we have learned about the molecular basis of “vomocytosis”, a phenomenon that the pathogen uses to exit from phagocytic cells, and about the evolution of hypervirulent outbreaks of cryptococcosis.
Contact : Guilhem Janbon (guilhem.janbon@pasteur.fr – poste : 8356)