Microbiology

This track focuses on the spectrum of fungi that infects humans. In previously healthy individuals, invasive fungal disease is rare because animals’ sophisticated immune systems evolved in constant response to fungal challenges. In contrast, fungal diseases occur frequently in immunocompromised patients. Paradoxically, successes of modern medicine have put increasing numbers of patients at risk for invasive fungal infections.

Subtracks:

1. Fungal evolution, phylogenetics, genomics, development, and pathogenesis

2. Fungi that infect healthy Humans, Entomophthoromycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.

3. Fungi that infect Immunocompromised humans Ascomycota, Basidiomycota and Mucorales

4. Non-Fumigatus Aspergilli, Fusarium, Pseudoallescheria, and other opportunistic Ascomycetous fungal pathogens