TMP Seminar Series — ‘Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans Inter‑Kingdom Interactions,’ Tuesday, March 14, at 12:10 p.m.

The Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology welcomes Dr. Danielle A. Garsin, PhD, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth-Houston to WSU Spokane on Tuesday, April 14. She will be providing her seminar at 12:10 p.m., “Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans Inter‑Kingdom Interactions,” in SAC 147 and via Zoom.

The microbiome comprises not only bacteria but also fungi, parasites, and viruses that can have profound biological effects on one another and on the host. Here, I will describe our work looking at interactions between the fungus Candida albicans and the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, two opportunistic pathogens that share host niches in both commensal and diseased states. We discovered that these two bugs inhibit each other’s pathogenicity and will describe our studies elucidating the secreted molecules that mediate these effects, as well as our efforts to apply this knowledge to develop new anti-infective therapeutics.

Dr. Garsin is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Garsin is interested in microbial pathogenesis, gene regulation, host-microbe, and microbe-microbe interactions.

We look forward to you joining us in person (SAC 147) or through Zoom!

Questions/Zoom link? Contact Michelle Sanchez at michelle.r.sanchez@wsu.edu.

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