ضمن سياستها في تبادل أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية من الخبرات والكفاءات بين الجامعة والجامعات الاوروبية والامريكية تستضيف جامعة القدس كلية الطب ولعام كامل الدكتور يوسف ابو كويك حيث يقضي سنة التفرع العلمي، حيث سيقوم الدكتور ابو كويك باعطاء محاضرات وندوات للطلبة والباحثين كما سيضع دراسات وخطط بحثية لتقديمها الى جهات أمريكية ليتم دعمها.
لمعلومات أكثر عن الدكتور أبو كويك :
Prof Yousef Abu Kwaik
Yousef Abu Kwaik is the Bumgardner Professor of Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Louisville (UofL) College of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He Joined UofL since 2003 after moving from the University of Kentucky where he was an Associate Professor. He received his Ph. D. from SUNY/at Buffalo from the department of Microbiology and Immunology. He did his postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan where he started his work on Legionella pneumophila. His current work is focused on Cellular Microbiology of Legionella pneumophila and Francisella tularensis. Interactions of both pathogens with their mammalian host as well as with their environmental hosts are deciphered at the molecular, biochemical, and cellular levels. For L. pneumophila, interaction with the amoeba as the environmental host is studied. For F. tularensis, interaction with the arthropod vector is deciphered through modeling the infection in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster. Selected Recent publications 1) Price, C. T., Al-Khodor, S., Al-Quadan, T., Kalia, A., and Abu Kwaik, Y. Molecular Mimicry by an F-box effector of Legionella pneumophila hijacks a conserved polyubiquitination machinery within macrophages and protozoa. PLoS Pathog. 2009, 12:e1000704. 2) Santic, M. and Abu Kwaik, Y. Cell biology and molecular ecology of Francisella tularensis. Cell. Microbiol. 2010, 12:129-139. 3) Al-Khodor, S., Price, C. T., Kalia, A., and Abu Kwaik, Y. Ankyrin-repeat containing proteins of microbes: a conserved structure with functional diversity. Trends. Micobiol. 2010, 18:132-139. 4) Habyarimana, F., Price, C. T., Santic, M., Al-Khodor, S., and Abu Kwaik, Y. Molecular characterization of the Dot/Icm-translocated AnkH and AnkJ eukaryotic-like effectors of Legionella pneumophila. Infect. Immun. 2010, 78:1123-1134. 5) Price, C. T., Al-Khodor, S., Al-Quadan, T. and Abu Kwaik, Y. Indispensable role for the eukaryotic-like ANK domains of the Ankyrin B effector of Legionella pneumophila within macrophages and amoeba. Infect. Immun. 2010, 78:2079-2088. 6) Asare, R, and Abu Kwaik, Y. Molecular Complexity Orchestrates Modulation of Phagosome Biogenesis and Escape to the Cytosol of macrophages by Francisella tularensis. Environ. Microbiol. 2010, In Press.. 7) Abu Kwaik, Y. Akimana, C., and Asare, R. Molecular bases of proliferation of Francisella tularensis in Arthropod vectors. Environ. Microbiol. 2010, In Press. 8) Price, C. T., Al-Quadan, T. Santic, M, and Abu Kwaik, Y. Exploitation of conserved eukaryotic host cell farnesylation machinery by an F-box effector of Legionella pneumophila. J.Exp.Med., 2010. In Press. 9) Al-Khodor, S., and Abu Kwaik, Y. Triggering Ras signaling by intracellular Francisella tularensis through recruitment of PKCα and βI to the SOS2/GrB2 complex is essential for bacterial proliferation in the cytosol. Cell. Microbiol. 2010.
