Professor Wendy Gibson
B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
- General area of research is Molecular Parasitology, specifically parasitic protozoa
- 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.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The genetic basis of host specificity in African trypanosomes
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/11/2018 to 31/10/2020
Sexual reproduction in trypanosomes
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2018 to 30/06/2021
Sexual reproduction in the livestock pathogen Trypanosoma congolense
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2015 to 31/03/2018
MATING TYPES IN TRYPANOSOMES
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/1997 to 01/04/1998
Thesis supervisions
The minichromosomes of livestock-infecting African Trypanosomes
Supervisors
The Other Trypanosome
Supervisors
Towards a minimal media
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
04/01/2024Experimental genetic crosses in tsetse flies of the livestock pathogen Trypanosoma congolense savannah
Parasites and Vectors
Development of the livestock pathogen Trypanosoma (Nannomonas) simiae in the tsetse fly with description of putative sexual stages from the proboscis
Parasites and Vectors
Signatures of hybridization in Trypanosoma brucei
PLoS Pathogens
Sequential production of gametes during meiosis in trypanosomes
Communications Biology
The sexual side of parasitic protists
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
