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Professor Wendy Gibson

group: Plant and Pathogen Biology
lab: 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.