Polymorphism and infectious disease.

16 Janeiro 2020, 13:00 • Patricia Beldade

Host-pathogen co-evolution. Polymorphism and infectious disease. Maintenance of polymorphism because of heretozygote advantage versus negative frequency dependent selection. The insive versus outside problem of immunology. MHC, structure and function. Variation in MHC genes in human populations. Lecture by invited professor Jonathan Howard (IGC).