Molecular principles of fungal pathogenesis

 Content: Fungal molecular pathogenesis : what can it do and why do we need it? / John R. Perfect and Arturo Casadevall --
 Sex, MAT, and the evolution of fungal virulence / James A. Fraser and Joseph Heitman --
 Postgenomic strategies for genetic analysis : insight from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans / Clarissa J. Nobile and Aaron P. Mitchell --
 Candida albicans hypha formation and virulence / Paula Sundstrom --
 The conversion from classical studies in fungal pathogenesis to the molecular era / Kyung J. Kwon-Chung and Brian L. Wickes --
 Mating and parasexual genetics in Candida albicans / Mathew Miller and Alexander Johnson --
 The mating-type locus and mating of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata / David R. Soll --
 Evolution of human pathogenic fungi : phylogenies and species / John W. Taylor --
 Establishment of cell identity in pathogenic fungi / Christina M. Hull --
 Signal transduction in the interactions of fungal pathogens and mammalian hosts / Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich --
 Function and regulation of adhesin gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata / Irene Castaño, Alejandro de las Peñas, and Brendan P. Cormack. Fungal biofilms : agents of disease and drug resistance / Gordon Ramage, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, and José L. López-Ribot --
 Molecular basis of fungal adherence to endothelial and epithelial cells / Scott G. Filler, Donald C. Sheppard, and John E. Edwards, Jr. --
 Molecular principles of antifungal drug resistance / Dominique Sanglard and Theodore C. White --
 Heterologous hosts and the evolution and study of fungal pathogenesis / Eleftherios Mylonakis, Stephen B. Calderwood, and Frederick M. Ausubel --
 Amoeba and slime mold: hosts of virulence evolution / Arturo Casadevall --
 Aspergillus nidulans : a model for elucidation of Aspergillus fumigatus secondary metabolism / Nancy Keller --
 Saccharomyces cerevisiae : an emerging and model pathogenic fungus / John H. McCusker --
 Fungal-bacterial interactions / Deborah A. Hogan and Roberto Kolter --
 Amphibian chytridiomycosis as an emerging infectious disease of wildlife : what can we learn from the earliest diverging fungi? / Timothy Y. James and Rytas Vilgalys --
 Cryptococcus neoformans : a sugar-coated killer / John R. Perfect --
 Toward a molecular understanding of Candida albicans virulence / Frank C. Odds, Neil A.R. Gow, and Alistair J.P. Brown --
 Molecular determinants of Histoplasma capsulatum pathogenesis / Jon P. Woods --
 Molecular determinants of virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus / Judith C. Rhodes and Axel A. Brakhage --
 Pathogenesis of pneumocystis / A. George Smulian and Melanie T. Cushion. Virulence mechanisms of coccidioides / Garry T. Cole [and others] --
 Blastomyces dermatitidis cell surface determinants and their application in vaccine development / Bruce Klein --
 Virulence factors in black molds with emphasis on melanin, chitin, and Wangiella as a molecularly tractable model / Paul J. Szaniszlo --
 Zygomycetes as agents of infectious disease in humans / Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Brad Spellberg --
 Signaling pathways in the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei / Alex Andrianopoulos and Sophie Zuber --
 Innate humoral immunity to fungi / Thomas R. Kozel --
 Innate and acquired cellular immunity to fungi / Luigina Romani --
 Acquired antibody-mediated immunity to fungi / Liise-anne Pirofski and Arturo Casadevall --
 Site-specific mucosal immunity to fungi : lessons learned from Candida albicans applied to other fungi / Paul L. Fidel, Jr. and Beatriz Finkel-Jimenez --
 Intracellular pathogenesis of Histoplasma capsulatum / Simon L. Newman --
 Interactions of immune cells with the facultative intracellular pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans / Lauren E. Yauch and Stuart M. Levitz. Fungal interactions with leukocytes / Mairi C. Noverr [and others] --
 Fungal vaccine development / Joshua D. Nosanchuk and George S. Deepe Jr. --
 Molecular immunopathogenesis of innate host defense against chronic disseminated (hepatosplenic) candidiasis / Thomas J. Walsh [and others] --
 Studying fungal virulence using genomics / Michael C. Lorenz --
 Future of functional genomics of Histoplasma capsulatum / Anita Sil and Lena Hwang --
 Functional genomic approaches to fungal pathogenesis, drug target validation, and antifungal drug discovery / Ainslie B. Parsons, Howard Bussey, and Charles Boone --
 Genetic and proteomic analysis of fungal virulence / Jennifer K. Lodge and Michael C. Lorenz --
 Genomic perspectives on the fungal kingdom / Jason E. Stajich and Fred S. Dietrich.
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