Harmonized supramolecular motility machinery and its diversity

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Part 1: Bacterial pathogenesis: the Listeria paradigm

Species name:Listeria

Pasteur Institute　Pascale Cossart

Cossart begins her talk with an overview of microbiology and then focuses on the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne, intracellular pathogen. Cossart explains how Listeria enter epithelial cells, move around inside cells, and spread between cells. She describes how her lab identifed Listeria virulence genes by comparing the sequence of a non-pathogenic species of Listeria with the sequence of L. monocytogenes. They found that Listeria uses a wide variety of strategies to infect and proliferate within its host.