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4:00 p.m.

Arturo Zychlinsky, director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, will present the 2009/2010 Stone Memorial Lecture.

Zychlinsky, whose research focuses on acute inflammatory intestinal diseases, says his research group is interested in why, although people often pick up infections and sometimes become ill, they almost always recover. “Recovery is the result of a fantastically efficient immune system that relies in part on proteins and peptides that kill microbes,” he said. Zychlinsky’s lab studies this immune system by using Salmonella and Shigella infections as model systems to investigate interactions between the immune system and microorganisms that are capable of causing disease in the digestive tract.

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WEBSITE: http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/StoneLecture11-2009.htm