Our Research
The research in the Division of Microbiology & Parasitology comprises a wide range of topics including: bacterial motility and flagellar biogenesis, mechanisms of entry of bacteria into mammalian cells, bacterial toxin export and multi-drug efflux, regulation of gene expression during host-pathogen interaction, transmission, cell-cycle dynamics and virulence mechanisms in malaria parasites, host modulation by parasitic organisms and dynamics of parasitic worm infection in human populations.
Division Head: Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas
Our Research Groups
Dr K Artavanis-Tsakonas
Researching the Malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum and the nematode Trichinella spiralis.
Dr Richard Hayward
Studying the intracellular biology of the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
Professor Vassilis Koronakis
Bacterial multidrug efflux/protein traffic and Salmonella mammalian entry
Dr Anna V. Protasio
Investigating the mechanisms by which the ‘host genome’ controls the activity of TEs.
Wilson Group
Epidemiology and immunology of human schistosomiasis and other helminth infections