Syllabus
Lecture 1: Introduction, saccharomycosis, aspergillosis
Lecture 2: Fusariosis, mucormycosis
Lecture 3: Scedosporiosis, lomentosporosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia
Lecture 4: Ajellomyces, sporotrichosis
Lecture 5: Coccidioidomycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis
Lecture 6: Cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis
Lecture 7: Blastomycosis, talaromycosis
Lecture 8: Candidiasis - C. albicans, C. glabrata
Lecture 9: Candidiasis - other Candida species
Lecture 10: Phaeohyphomycosis, chromoblastomycosis
Lecture 11: Dermatophytosis, Malassezia mycosis
Lecture 12: Methods for studying host-pathogen interactions
Annotation
Major fungal pathogens including Candida and thermally dimorphic species. Topics include: innate and adaptive immunity, nutritional immunity and host cell metabolism as well as fungal virulence