Bacterial Adhesion

1. Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia; 2. Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enteric; 3. Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi; 4. Adhesins of Bartonella spp.; 5. Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadeae; 6. Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria; 7. Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci; 8. Protein Folding in Bacterial Adhesion: Secretion and Folding of Classical Monomeric Autotransporters; 9. Structure and Biology of Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesins; 10. Crystallography and EM of chaperone/usher pilus systems; 11. Crystallography of Gram-positive Bacterial Adhesins; 12. The nonideal coiled coil of M protein and its multifarious functions in pathogenesis; 13. Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides; 14. Carbohydrate mediated bacterial adhesion; 15. The Application of NMR Techniques to Bacterial Adhesins; 16. Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion; 17. EM Reconstruction of Adhesins: 18. Atomic force microscopy to study intermolecular forces and bonds associated with bacteria; 19. Assessing Bacterial Adhesion on an Individual Adhesin and Single Pili Level using Optical Tweezers; 20. Short time-scale bacterial adhesion dynamics; 21. Deciphering Biofilm Structure and Reactivity by Multiscale Time-resolved Fluorescence Analysis; 22. Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion on Medical Devices.