{"id":56,"date":"2018-08-07T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/microbe-host-interactions\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:31:38","slug":"microbe-host-interactions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/microbe-host-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbe-Host Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through new discoveries and state-of-the-science training of future scientists, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/pmi-education\/mhi\">Microbe-Host Interactions graduate program<\/a> intends to be a world-class center of excellence in biomedical research. The program\u2019s mission evolved from the realization that while we cannot imagine our global village without germs, we can imagine a world without preventable and treatable microbial diseases. The program\u2019s focus is to understand the interactions between microbes\u2014specifically, bacteria and viruses\u2014and their host organisms that lead to disease or promote health.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the Microbe-Host Interactions program, supported by the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, have developed innovative in vivo and in vitro systems to study basic mechanisms of bacterial and viral pathogenesis. A key direction in the Department is to use the information garnered from mammalian and microbial genomes projects to identify new genes that control the infection process and affect clinical outcomes.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"width: 500px\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#9d1d25\"><span style=\"color: white\">RESEARCH FOCUS IN MICROBE-HOST INTERACTIONS<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\">\n<td>Molecular virology, including Coronaviruses, Rotavirus, HIV, and Herpesviruses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td align=\"center\">Virus-host microbiome interactions and viral disease modeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\">\n<td>Virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria (including Salmonella Typhimurium, Staphylococci, Anthrax bacilli, Helicobacter pylori, Clostridium botulinum and difficile)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Metal acquisition by pathogenic bacteria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#cccccc\">\n<td align=\"center\">Virus-antibody interactions relevant to vaccines and therapy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through new discoveries and state-of-the-science training of future scientists, the Microbe-Host Interactions graduate program intends to be a world-class center of excellence in biomedical research. The program\u2019s mission evolved from the realization that while we cannot imagine our global village without germs, we can imagine a world without preventable and treatable microbial diseases. The program\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1154,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/igp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}