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Parasitology Research
The Parasitology program involves faculty members from different departments
within the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Arts and Sciences whose
research interests range from the genetic basis of drug resistance in protozoan
parasites to the mathematical modeling of helminth transmission within host populations.
Particular areas of emphasis include immunoparasitology in which a large group
of faculty focus on understanding immune regulation in hosts infected with Leishmania,
Toxoplasma, and Schistosoma, cell and molecular parasitology in which investigators
study a range of topics including drug resistance in toxoplasmosis, gene regulation
in malaria, and the molecular biology and neurobiology of infective nematode larvae,
and population/evolutionary biology with projects which focus on the interaction
trematodes with their snail hosts and the population dynamics of parasites of
farmed animals.
Parasitology Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania
| David Artis |
Immunology and cell biology of parasitic helminth infections;
regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in the gut |
| Duston Brisson |
Disease ecology; molecular evolution; microbial ecology/ evolution; host-pathogen interaction |
| Jay
Farrell |
Cellular immunology and immunopathology of cutaneous
and visceral leishmaniasis |
| Doron Greenbaum |
Protease function; P. falciparum (malaria); chemical biology; proteomics |
| Robert Greenberg |
Schistosoma; schistosomiasis; Platyhelminthes; ion
channels; calcium channels; multidrug resistance proteins;
molecular neurobiology; praziquantel |
| Christopher Hunter |
Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii; innate immunity; immunopathology |
| Mike Levy |
Disease ecology; Chagas disease; global health; zoonotic diseases; Trypanosoma cruzi; Bayesian statistics; bed bugs |
| James Lok |
Vector-associated parasitisms; experimental filariasis
and onchocerciasis |
| Thomas Nolan |
Biology of Strongyloides stercoralis; biology and epidemiology of parasites of dogs, cats and wildlife |
| David Roos |
Molecular/cellular parasitology; toxoplasma; plasmodium
(malaria); genomics |
| Phillip Scott |
Immune regulation and vaccine development in cutaneous
leishmaniasis |
| Hao Shen |
Cellular immune responses to intracellular parasites |
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