Molecular characterization of Candida albicans mucosal colonization, infection and translocation

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The yeast Candida albicans and the filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus are by far the most important causes of life-threatening invasive mycoses in Europe. Despite the increasing incidence of these infections, the current diagnosis is still difficult and often too late, and options for therapies are limited. Moreover, A. fumigatus and C. albicans have developed multiple sophisticated, specific and unique pathogenicity mechanisms. Many of these mechanisms are not well understood. Research on ...

This year‘s 11 th IMIHM meeting is held for the fourth time as a Joint Meeting together with scientists from the CRC TransRegio 124 (“Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction – FungiNet”). This Collaborative Research Centre FungiNet is a network of scientists from Jena and Wuerzburg and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The Consortium collaborates to better understand complex invasive mycoses by investigating the pathobiology of fungi, the response of the ...