Parasite cell and molecular biology, host parasite interaction, parasite metabolism, immune response and memory, pathogenesis, adaptations to parasitism, mechanisms of host defense, lymphocyte migration, cytokines
Personnel
Immunobiology of human schistosomiasis. Immunoregulation and resistance to reinfection
Metabolic pathways of trypanosomatids and malaria parasites
Immunology: lymphocyte migration
Drug discovery for malaria and brain-eating amoebae; antimalarial resistance mechanisms
Immunoparasitology; immunoregulation; lymphatic filariasis; crytosporidiosis
Chemical biology; parasitology; signal transduction; drug discovery
Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites. Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.
Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
Immunoparasitology; immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease; vaccine development