Multidisciplinary Parasitology & Vector Biology Program
Faculty
Herve Agaisse, Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis; Ph.D., Pasteur Institute (Paris), 1996.
Innate immune responses to pathogen infection in insects, using the Drosophila system.
Serap Aksoy, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Columbia, 1982.
Interaction of African trypanosomes with their vector, the tsetse fly; genetic modification of vector competence.
Karen Anderson, Professor of Pharmacology; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1982.
Enzymatic and receptor–ligand interactions; structure–based drug design; antiparasitic drugs.
Richard Bucala, Professor of Medicine and Pathology; Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1985; M.D., Cornell, 1986.
Host response to tissue invasion and in the host–parasite interactions producing disease; role of the host cytokine MIF in the complications of malaria and Leishmania infection.
Gisella Caccone, Senior Research Scientist of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Ph.D. Yale University, 1986.
Evolutionary genetics of mosquitoes and tsetse species.; genetic differentiation between and within vector populations, levels of gene flow, and the forces shaping the genetic structure of populations; DNA–based diagnostic tools to identify taxonomic units; vector–based control and monitoring strategies.
Michael Cappello, Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Public Health; M.D., Georgetown, 1988.
Tropical diseases and parasitology; hookworm; mechanisms of pathogenesis and vaccines.
Maria Duik–Wasser, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., UCLA, 2003.
Modeling environmental and ecological drivers of vector–borne and zoonotic diseases using intensive field and laboratory–derived data.
Erol Fikrig, Professor of Medicine, Microbial Pathogenesis, and Epidemiology and Public Health; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; M.D., Cornell, 1985.
Vectors and vector–borne diseases; mechanisms of pathogenesis and transmission; Lyme disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, and West Nile virus.
Durland Fish, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Florida, 1976.
Epidemiology of vector–borne pathogens; landscape epidemiology of zoonoses; population regulation of arthropod vectors.
Alison Galvani, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Oxford University (England).2002.
Infectious disease modeling; integrating infectious disease and epidemiology and/or economics in order to generate predictions that could not be made by either discipline alone for answering evolutionary questions, explaining empirical observations and informing public health policy.
Theodore Holford, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Yale, 1973.
Development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology; use of geographic information systems (GIS) to study factors that affect vector ecology and the subsequent risks that arise from vector–borne disease.
Diane McMahon–Pratt, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Harvard, 1978.
Immunology and developmental biochemistry of the parasitic protozoa Leishmania.
Leonard Munstermann, Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1979.
Population genetics and taxonomy of medically important insects (mosquitoes and sand flies), focusing on the species Aedes albopictus and Lutzomyia longipalpis, respectively, and their role in disease transmission.
Jeffrey Powell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1972.
Molecular evolutionary genetics of vectors, especially the major vectors of malaria in Africa, the Anopheles gambiae complex.
Christian Tschudi, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Ph.D., Basel, Switzerland, 1982. Genetics of infectious diseases; genomic, bioinformatic and proteomic approaches in the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei.
Elisabetta Ullu, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Cell Biology; Ph.D., Rome, Italy, 1973. Mechanism, regulation and evolution of the RNA interference pathway in the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania braziliensis.
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