
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai
Phone: +49 3641 532-1347 Email: oliver.kurzai@leibniz-hki.de Website: www.leibniz-hki.de/de/fungal-septomics.html
Projects
Current Projects
Adaptation of Candida albicans to non-commensal host environments induced by host circulating proteins and immune mediators
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Individual-based Modelling of Infection Spread and Immune Response Dynamics
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Machine Learning Supported Multi-Model Simulator for Infection Research (MuMoSim)
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Former Projects
Immunevasion of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans
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Stepwise virulence regulation in Candida albicans
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Publications
(2017) Migration and interaction tracking for quantitative analysis of phagocyte-pathogen confrontation assays. Med Image Anal 36, 172. Details PubMed
(2016) Candidalysin is a fungal peptide toxin critical for mucosal infection. Nature 532(7597), 64-68. Details PubMed
(2015) Automated segmentation and tracking of non-rigid objects in time-lapse microscopy videos of polymorphonuclear neutrophils. Med Image Anal 20(1), 34-51. Details PubMed
(2015) Defining the transcriptomic landscape of Candida glabrata by RNA-Seq. Nucleic Acids Res 43(3), 1392-1406. Details PubMed
(2013) Complement and innate immune evasion strategies of the human pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. Mol Immunol 56(3), 161-169. Details PubMed
(2012) The Arthroderma benhamiae hydrophobin HypA mediates hydrophobicity and influences recognition by human immune effector cells. Eukaryot Cell 11(5), 673-682. Details PubMed
(2012) Cellular responses of Candida albicans to phagocytosis and the extracellular activities of neutrophils are critical to counteract carbohydrate starvation, oxidative and nitrosative stress. PLoS One 7(12), e52850. Details PubMed