Parasite
Dr Francesco Baldini
How do malaria mosquito’s life history responses to climate change, urbanisation and insecticide exposure influence their ability to transmit Plasmodium falciparum?
Professor Jim Brewer
Understanding the mechanism of action of E coli O157:H7 virulence inhibitors at unprecedented resolution
Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright
Growth rate differences in human malaria parasites - Why do some parasites grow more quickly in the body, and cause more severe forms of malaria disease?
Professor Lilach Sheiner
Structure-function studies of a malaria drug-target in a model apicomplexan parasite
Professor Annette MacLeod
Understanding host-parasite interactions using single cell transcriptomic analysis of trypanosome parasites and their mammalian host.
Professor Poppy Lamberton
Investigating genetic composition of Onchocerca worms pre- and post-drug-treatment: Improving the ability to test macrofilaricidal drug efficacy
Professor Martin Llewellyn
A silent killer, a genome in flux: understanding the adaptive consequences of plody instability in the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.
Professor Richard McCulloch
Understanding how DNA replication programming drives adaptive genome variation in African trypanosomes and Leishmania
Dr Simon Babayan
Integrating viral genome sequences and host receptor structure to predict the host range and tissue tropism of RNA and DNA viruses with machine learning
Professor Matt Berriman
Understanding the genomic context of noncoding RNA in the schistosome genome
Professor Matthias Marti, Dr Leo Carlin, Dr Matt Gibbins
Investigating the behaviour of malaria gametocytes in the skin and their role in transmission to mosquitoes
Professor Andrew Tobin
Validating protein kinases as a target for next generation anti-malarial drugs
Professor Ilan Davis
Developing a next generation anti-malarial targeting parasite specific RNA splicing
