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Parasitology Research
Parasitology
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 |
| Larry Buxbaum |
Immunology, immunoparasitology, Leishmania, parasite,
IL-10, Fcgamma R, cysteine proteinase |
| Jay
Farrell |
Cellular immunology and immunopathology of cutaneous
and visceral leishmaniasis |
| Michael Goldschmidt |
Experimental 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 |
| James Lok |
Vector-associated parasitisms; experimental filariasis
and onchocerciasis |
| John Murray |
Molecular motors and mechanochemical transduction |
| Thomas Nolan |
Control of Strongyloides stercoralis autoinfection;
biology and immunology of helminth infections |
| Ed Pearce |
Schistosomiasis; parasitic helminth; Th1/Th2 responses;
dendritic cells |
| Steven Reiner |
Lymphocyte differentiation and the host response to
parasitic disease |
| David Roos |
Molecular/cellular parasitology; toxoplasma; plasmodium
(malaria); genomics |
| Gerhard Schad |
Regulation of nematode growth and development; nematode
chemosensory and mechanosensory neurons |
| Phillip Scott |
Immune regulation and vaccine development in cutaneous
leishmaniasis |
| Hao Shen |
Cellular immune responses to intracellular parasites |
| Gary Smith |
Mathematical modeling of parasite disease; helminth
parasites |
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