1st Edition

Genetics of Bacterial Polysaccharides

Edited By Joanna B. Goldberg Copyright 1999
250 Pages
by CRC Press

256 Pages
by CRC Press

Bacterial surface or secreted polysaccharides are molecules that can function as barriers to protect bacterial cells against environmental stresses, as well as act as adhesins or recognition molecules. In some cases, these molecules are immunodominant antigens eliciting a vigorous immune response, while in other cases the expression of polysaccharides camouflages the bacteria from the immune... Read more
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Biography

Joanna B. Goldberg, Ph.D., has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center since 1996. She received her B.A. in Biology with Distinction from Boston University in 1979 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. In 1989, Dr. Goldberg joined the faculty at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, as an instructor and then assistant professor. Her research has focused on bacterial pathogenesis with an emphasis on polysaccharides as virulence factors and vaccine candidates.