Caparon, Michael

My lab is interested in host-pathogen interaction in bacterial infectious disease with a particular interest in the pathogenesis of infections caused by gram positive bacteria. We have focused on the mechansims that Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus) uses to modulate signaling behaviour of host cells during the early stagesof infection, and how S. pyogenes modulates expression of its genome to adapt to different host compartments encountered during the infectious process.