Professor Wendy Gibson
group: Plant and Pathogen Biologylab: Molecular Parasitology
Research
- General area of research is Molecular Parasitology, specifically the African trypanosomes
- The mechanism of genetic exchange (sexual reproduction) in trypanosomes
- Molecular evolution of trypanosomes
- Taxonomy of trypanosomes and epidemiology of sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis
- Development and differentiation of trypanosomes within the tsetse vector
Further information about my research can be found by following this link to the Molecular Parasitology Group home page.