Chapter 1 Amoeba provide insight into the origin of virulence in pathogenic fungi.

Chapter 2 Of Model Hosts and Man: Using Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster and Galleria mellonella as Model Hosts for Infectious Disease Research.

Chapter 3 Caenorhabditis elegans as an Alternative Model to Study Senescence of Host Defense and the Prevention by Immunonutrition.

Chapter 4 Bacterial Effectors: Learning on the Fly

Chapter 5 A Drosophila asthma model - what the fly tells us about inflammatory diseases of the lung.

Chapter 6 Elucidating the In Vivo Targets of Photorhabdus Toxins in Real-Time Using Drosophila Embryos

Chapter 7 Ecological Niche Modeling as a Tool for Understanding Distributions and Interactions of Vectors, Hosts, and Etiologic Agents of Chagas Disease

Chapter 8 Where Simplicity Meets Complexity: Hydra , a Model for Host–Microbe Interactions

Chapter 9 Tick as a Model for the Study of a Primitive Complement System

Chapter 11 Creating a Pro-survival and Anti-inflammatory Phenotype by Modulation of Acetylation in Models of Hemorrhagic and Septic Shock