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Oral epithelial cells orchestrate innate type 17 responses to Candida albicans through the virulence factor candidalysin

7 Nov 2017
ABSTRACT: Candida albicans is a dimorphic commensal fungus that causes severe oral infections in immunodeficient patients. Invasion of C. albicans hyphae into oral epithelium is an essential virulence trait. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) signaling is required for both innate and adaptive immunity to C. albicans . During the innate response, IL-17 is produced by γδ T cells and a poorly understood ...
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Hube Lab

OPATHY newsletter 09/2017 now available

6 Sep 2017
The OPATHY newsletter informs about latest activities in the network. It will appear every 3 months. You can register to receive it automatically.
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2nd OPATHY Annual Meeting/ Summer School, 27th of August till 1st of September at HKI in Jena, Germany

4 Sep 2017
The second OPATHY Annual Meeting/ Summer School took place from 27th of August till 1st of September at Hans-Knoell-Institute in Jena, Germany.
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Video Interview with OPATHY SAB member Prof. Judith Berman (TAU)

4 Aug 2017
During the HFP2017 conference in La-Colle-Sur-Loupe, France, OPATHY scientific advisory board member Judith Berman (Tel Aviv University) was interviewed by OPATHY ESR Elise Iracane (University College Dublin).
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Hybridization and emergence of virulence in opportunistic human yeast pathogens

6 Jul 2017
ABSTRACT: Hybridization between different species can result in the emergence of new lineages and adaptive phenotypes. Occasionally, hybridization in fungal organisms can drive the appearance of opportunistic lifestyles or shifts to new hosts, resulting in the emergence of novel pathogens. In recent years, an increasing number of studies have documented the existence of hybrids in diverse yeast ...
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Gabaldón Lab

2017 MCAA Conference and General Assembly, 24-25 March, Salamanca

24 Mar 2017
The 2017 MCAA Conference and General Assembly will be held on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th March 2017 in Salamanca, Spain. The host for this event is the University of Salamanca, in cooperation with the MCAA Spain/Portugal Chapter. The winner of the BCN Science Slam will present on a Science Slam which will take place on 24th of March as a side program of the MCAA general assembly meeting.
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ITN Science Slam Barcelona, 3rd of March 2017

3 Mar 2017
OPATHY organizes the first "ITN Science Slam" with four other ITNs being coordinated in Barcelona. The Science Slam will take place on the 3rd of March at 21:00 in the bar "mau mau".
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Widespread Inter- and Intra-Domain Horizontal Gene Transfer of D-Amino Acid Metabolism Enzymes in Eukaryotes

17 Jan 2017
ABSTRACT: Analysis of the growing number of available fully-sequenced genomes has shown that Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in eukaryotes is more common than previously thought. It has been proposed that genes with certain functions may be more prone to HGT than others, but we still have a very poor understanding of the selective forces driving eukaryotic HGT. Recent work uncovered that D-amino ...
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OPATHY e-newsletter now available. Register to get it automatically every 3 months!

12 Jan 2017
The newly established OPATHY newsletter informs about latest activities in the network. It will appear every 3 months. You can register already now here to receive it automatically.
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Press Release : OPATHY Development of new omics-based diagnostic tools to better manage yeast infections in humans

25 Sep 2015
OPATHY is a an European training network aimed to developing new diagnostic tools to study and manage human yeast infections. The network is coordinated by the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, and brings together five universities, four companies and three research organisations, including two clinical centres. Opathy ITN plans to create a new paradigm for the management ...
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