INFECTIOUS DISEASES SEMINAR SERIES：Yersinia Pestis: Evolution and Pathogenesis
Speaker:Dr. Ruifu Yang,Professor
Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology,
Academy of Military Medical Sciences
Time: 16:00, March 26 (Monday)
Place: Medical Science Building B321,Tsinghua University
Abstract
Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, which inflicted humans with pandemics in our history. Plague foci is now distributed in Africa, America and Asia, with most of them in China and Russia. In China, there is about 15% of land with plague foci where animal plague occurs every year. How the plague pathogen evolved between different hosts and plague pathogenesis are two critical issues for plague prevention and control. Whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics were employed to reveal microevolution and spread of this pathogen around the world. Pathogenesis was studied by comparative genomics, comparative transcriptomics and pathogen-host interactions.
Light Refreshments will be served!!!
Background
The Centre for Infectious Diseases Research is holding a weekly seminar series. The seminars will be a great opportunity to hear speakers from both within and outside China speaking on a variety of subjects of interest to all those engaged in microbiology/immunology and allied disciplines. The coordinator of the seminar series is Babak Javid, and he would be delighted for fellow faculty to get in touch with regards to possible speakers to invite.
The seminars will also be of great interest to graduate students in life sciences, so we would appreciate PIs encouraging their students and post-docs to attend. By way of encouragement, we will be providing light refreshments to attendees.
If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please email Babak Javid at bjavid@gmail.com.
We hope that this seminar series will prove to be a valuable addition for both training and scientific dialogue at Tsinghua, and look forward to seeing you there.
We hope that this seminar series will prove to be a valuable addition for both training and scientific dialogue at Tsinghua, and look forward to seeing you there.
