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SUMMARY:Infecting Amoebae with Mycobacteria to Study Conserved Mechanisms 
 of Innate Immunity
DTSTART:20140424T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Thierry Soldati\, Department of Biochemistry\, Universit
 y of Geneva\nBio: After studying Biochemistry in Geneva\, in 1987 I starte
 d my doctoral thesis at the Institute of Cell Biology of the ETH in Zurich
 \, Switzerland\, with Jean-Claude Perriard\, working on muscle cell cytoar
 chitecture. From 1991\, I was a postdoc in the Biochemistry Department at 
 Stanford University\, USA\, with Suzanne Pfeffer\, unraveling the function
  of Rab GTPases in endosomal membrane trafficking. In 1995\, I joined the 
 Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg\, Germany\, as an 
 independent group leader in Wolfhard Almers’s department. There we start
 ed deciphering cellular and molecular mechanisms of endocytosis and phagoc
 ytosis\, using the social amoeba Dictyostelium as a model system. In 2001\
 , I was appointed as a lecturer at the Department of Biological Sciences a
 t Imperial College London\, UK. In 2004\, I joined the Department of Bioch
 emistry of the University of Geneva as a senior lecturer. Since then\, the
  investigations have focused more heavily on the inteface between host and
  pathogens\, especially mycobacteria as they reprogramm the otherwise bact
 ericidal phagocytic cells to establish a proliferation niche.\n
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