Description

This session will summarize fundamental advances in understanding how dominant species of bacteria infecting CF airways evolve, compete with each other & affect host tissues.

Educational Objectives:

1. Demonstrate how dominant CF pathogens interact with each other & with the host & how it contributes to pathogenesis.
2. Describe how Pseudomonas aeruginosa persist & evolve in the airways of CF patients.
3. Illustrate bacterial interaction mechanisms & CF microbial diversity in CF airways.

Speaker(s):

• Helle Krogh Johansen, M.D., Professor
• Colin Manoil, Ph.D.