Professor em. Ben Adler, Dept. of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC,Australia also organizes the annual Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections of Animals, Prato, Tuscany, Italy

• The Treponema pallidum Outer Membrane.- Gene regulation, two component regulatory systems, and adaptive responses in Treponema denticola.- Physiologic and Genetic Factors Influencing the Zoonotic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi.- Regulation of gene and protein expression in the Lyme disease spirochete.- Genetic manipulation of Borrelia spp..-  Toolbox of molecular techniques for studying Leptospira spp..-  Interaction of Leptospira with the innate immune system.- Leptospiral genomics and pathogenesis.- Complement immune evasion by spirochetes.- Spirochetal lipoproteins in pathogenesis and immunity.- Colonic spirochetes: what has genomics taught us?

Professor em. Ben Adler, Dept. of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC,Australia also organizes the annual Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections of Animals, Prato, Tuscany, Italy

• The Treponema pallidum Outer Membrane.- Gene regulation, two component regulatory systems, and adaptive responses in Treponema denticola.- Physiologic and Genetic Factors Influencing the Zoonotic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi.- Regulation of gene and protein expression in the Lyme disease spirochete.- Genetic manipulation of Borrelia spp..-  Toolbox of molecular techniques for studying Leptospira spp..-  Interaction of Leptospira with the innate immune system.- Leptospiral genomics and pathogenesis.- Complement immune evasion by spirochetes.- Spirochetal lipoproteins in pathogenesis and immunity.- Colonic spirochetes: what has genomics taught us?

Professor em. Ben Adler, Dept. of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC,Australia also organizes the annual Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections of Animals, Prato, Tuscany, Italy

• The Treponema pallidum Outer Membrane.- Gene regulation, two component regulatory systems, and adaptive responses in Treponema denticola.- Physiologic and Genetic Factors Influencing the Zoonotic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi.- Regulation of gene and protein expression in the Lyme disease spirochete.- Genetic manipulation of Borrelia spp..-  Toolbox of molecular techniques for studying Leptospira spp..-  Interaction of Leptospira with the innate immune system.- Leptospiral genomics and pathogenesis.- Complement immune evasion by spirochetes.- Spirochetal lipoproteins in pathogenesis and immunity.- Colonic spirochetes: what has genomics taught us?