Dr. Paul J. Szaniszlo: E-mail: pjszaniszlo@mail.utexas.edu
(Office Hours: Mon 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, or by appointment in NMS 2.314)

Samantha Croft: E-mail: sbcroft@hotmail.com
(Office Hour: T from 10-11 AM, or by appointment in MBB 2.424B). Discussion and Test Review Sessions will be held on Tuesday 5-6 PM, Wednesday 4-5 PM (Locations TBA). These sessions are optional, although quizzes may be given and up to 5 bonus points/exam period can be earned during these sessions. If you can not attend either of these sessions, then please let Samantha know your reasons and why you cannot rearrange your schedule, in writing, before the 12^th class day (her syllabus for the Discussion Sessions is presented below and she also has a Discussion Section Quiz Website, which is at https://webspace.utexas.edu/sbc/www/ ). She will then try to accommodate you. However, if she can't, and you think you will need those potential points to pass, then you should seriously consider dropping this course.

Dismukes, Pappus and Sobel. 2003. Clinical Mycology, Oxford University Press, N. Y. Unfortunately this text just went out of print, but more than one copy should be available on my reserve shelf in the Life Science Library. Nonetheless assignments will still be made from this text for those who think they need to read in greater depth than is presented in the lectures and/or in the Sz readings (see below). A number of additional reference books will also be available on my reserve book shelf in the Science Library to augment your studies (see below).

As an alternative to the text assignments, or in addition to them, a number of articles will be assigned during the course.  These so-called Sz readings are required and will be available in the Life Sciences Library as one set of uncatalogued articles.  These readings can also be purchased at Speedway Copy and Printing, in Dobie Mall, should you want personal copies. The titles, authors, and sources of these readings are listed below in the general order they will be assigned.

There will be three semester examinations and an optional comprehensive final.  The semester exams will focus on the material covered since the last examination but the second and third exams will all require good knowledge of prior coverage, and particularly the material covered for the first examination.  Each examination will count equally (33.3%), if you opt not to take the comprehensive final.  Should you decide to take the final, it too will count 33.3% and your lowest semester exam grade will be dropped from the calculation for your final average (Note: if you opt to take the final, then it will be one of the three scores used to calculate your final grade). Final averages will generally not be curved, but instead most likely will be assigned as follows:

85-100%                  =               A

70-84%                    =               B

55-69%                    =               C

50-54%                    =               D

and less than 50%     =                F 

Discussion sessions are voluntary and will be held twice a week and are designed to allow the students to ask questions about difficult subject matter from the lectures. Quizzes will be given weekly, which thoroughly cover the previous week’s lecture materials. After reviewing the quiz questions, students will be allowed to ask questions and discuss unclear concepts. I will also point out material which students have struggled with in the past and give study tips. The discussions before the exam will be review sessions where I will give an overview of the lecture material covered for that exam and answer questions.

Bonus Points: During the two voluntary discussion sessions, quizzes will be given to allow students to earn up to 5 bonus points per exam.  Each week a quiz worth 5 points will be given and students may take all three quizzes per exam (ONLY one per week), but only the highest quiz score will be applied to their exam.

Attendance: If a student cannot attend either the discussion sessions or the office hours listed below, they must contact me in writing by the twelfth class day with the reason for the scheduling conflict so that other arrangements can be made.  If I am not contacted by this time, I will assume that the student is able to attend one of the allotted times and failure to attend is voluntary. If a scheduling conflict arises mid semester, it is the student’s responsibility to contact me immediately. I will not allow make-up quizzes as there are multiple opportunities per exam for the students to earn points, with exceptions only for serious illness that has caused absence for several weeks.

Discussion sessions: see TA above (site yet to be arranged).

Office Hours: see TA above.

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      QR 245, K86, 1992

      QR 245, K86, 2000

      QR 46, T6, 1998

      QR 245, D55, 1993

      QR248, M43, 1989

Medical Mycology and Human Mycoses, Beneke and Rogers

       RC 117, R5, 1988

       QR 245, 1985

       RC 117, E56, 1980

      QR 248, F55

     RC117, F864, 2000

 General Mycology

      QK603, A5, 1995

      QK 603, K46, 1992

       QK 603, A55, 1996

       QK 603, M62, 1996

   QK 603, C257, 2001    

Mitchell, T. G.  1998.  Medical mycological research and training: needs and opportunities. ASM News 64:17-23.

Cushion, M. T. 2004. Pneumocystis: Unraveling the cloak of obscurity. TIM 12:243-249.

O'Goram, C. M., H. B. Fuller and P. S. Dyer. 2008. Discovery of a sexual cycle in the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Nature (on line).

Szaniszlo, P. J.  1985.  An introduction to dimorphism among zoopathogenic fungi.  In:  Fungal dimorphism, with emphasis on fungi pathogenic for humans.  Chapter 1, pp. 3-13

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van der Veerdonk,  F. L., B. J. Kullberg, J. W. M. van der Meer, N. A. R. Gow and M. G. Netea. 2008. Host-microbe interactions: innate pattern recognition of fungal pathogens. Cutt. Opin. Microbiol. 11:305-317.

Noverr, M. C., D. M. Lindell, G. B. Toews and G. B. Huffnagel. 2006. Fungal interactions with leukocytes. In: Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis, ASM Press, pp. 555-563.

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