Join us on Thursday, April 26 for the 28th Annual Molecular Parasitology & Vector Biology. We are expecting nearly 200 researchers from at least 17 organizations to attend this day-long conference that features 12 talks, 59 poster presentations, and a fully catered lunch. The... Read more →
A number of undergraduates who have conducted research in CTEGD laboratories will be presenting their projects at the University of Georgia’s CURO Symposium on Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10 at the Classic Center. Oral Session 1 – Monday, April 9 11:15 – 12:05... Read more →
It is spring in Athens and that is always an exciting time for the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases! We always look forward to our annual signature event, the Molecular Parasitology & Vector Biology Symposium. This year will mark the 28th edition of the meeting that brings together students, staff, postdocs, and research... Read more →
Trisha Dalapati, an undergraduate studying in Julie Moore’s laboratory, is among 211 students from across the nation to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Georgia institutions had... Read more →
Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that dormancy of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi prevents effective drug treatment for Chagas disease, which kills more than 50,000 people each year in Central and South America and is a growing threat in the United States and Europe.... Read more →
by Leigh Beeson A UGA center takes on a public health problem that includes more than a dozen diseases of poverty. Lymphatic filariasis. Schistosomiasis. Cryptosporidiosis. They’re some of the world’s most widespread parasitic diseases, but many people have never heard of them. Those who live in... Read more →
Kerri Miazowicz is a 3rd year Ph.D. trainee in Courtney Murdock‘s laboratory. She grew up in southern Michigan where she received a B.S. in microbiology from Michigan State University in 2012. After graduation, she spent more than two years as a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at the Rocky... Read more →
Beatrice Colon, an Illinois native, is a Ph.D. trainee in Dennis Kyle’s laboratory. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Science degree from the University of South Florida (USF). She began her Ph.D. at... Read more →
By Allyson Mann The University of Georgia was well represented at the Georgia Bio Awards, with five awards recognizing programs either at or affiliated with the university. The awards were presented by Georgia Bio, the association for Georgia’s life sciences industry, at its 2018 annual... Read more →
Elvis Ofori Ameyaw is a Fulbright Scholar visiting M. Belen Cassera‘s laboratory in the department of molecular biology and biochemistry. He is a senior lecturer, Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Vice-Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences in the College of... Read more →
Vasant Muralidharan and his research team at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases are making great strides in understanding how the malaria parasite hijacks red blood cells to cause disease but many of the parasite’s strategies remain elusive. A new... Read more →
NIH T32 Trainee Karla M. Márquez Nogueras is in her 4th year of graduate training in Silvia Moreno‘s laboratory. Before entering the Ph.D. program at UGA, she taught for a semester at Turabo University in Puerto Rico, teaching undergraduate courses like Introduction to Microbiology and Human... Read more →
NIH T32 trainee Molly Bunkofse, a Ph.D. student in Rick Tarleton‘s laboratory, is originally from Illinois and I obtained my BA in Biology from a small, liberal arts college called Augustana, which is located in Rock Island, IL. Molly’s research focus Molly’s project focuses on... Read more →
NIH T32 trainee Ruby Harrison is a co-advised by Drs. Michael Strand and Mark Brown in the UGA Department of Entomology. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 and lived in Madison an additional two years working with mosquitoes as a... Read more →
Several species of Plasmodium parasites cause malaria in humans and results in nearly 450,000 deaths annually. The deadliest of these species is Plasmodium falciparum. Unfortunately, it is also drug resistance to many of the currently available treatments. Vasant Muralidharan, assistant professor in the department of... Read more →
Courtney Murdock was well on her way to becoming a veterinarian; as a pre-vet student at the University of Michigan she majored in biology and volunteered at a small animal hospital. But then she spent the summer before her senior year working at the university’s... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia has created the Drug Discovery Core laboratory, a campus-wide collaborative facility designed to hasten the development of therapeutic drugs for a number of major diseases. A survey distributed to UGA researchers in 2016 identified chemical screening and toxicity... Read more →
Patrick Lammie, CTEGD member and adjunct faculty in the Department of Cellular Biology, was awarded the Donald Mackay Medal during the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD. The Donald Mackay Medal recognizes outstanding work in tropical health, especially... Read more →
Many of CTEGD researchers and collaborators will be at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Annual meeting in Baltimore, MD next week. Below is a list of presentations where you can hear about the work we are doing. November 5 Session Parasitology (ACMCIP)... Read more →
Msano Mandalasi, a post-doctoral trainee in Chris West‘s laboratory, is originally from Malawi, (located in southeastern Africa) and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Malawi. After graduation, she worked briefly for the University of Malawi and then came to the US to obtain... Read more →
Silvia Moreno and her research team at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology provided evidence that it is possible to develop a drug combination that acts synergistically by inhibiting host and parasite enzymes in a... Read more →
Evgeniy Potapenko, a post-doctoral trainee in Roberto Docampo‘s laboratory, is from Kyiv, Ukraine. He obtained his MD from Bogomolets National Medical University (Kyiv) in 1997. Then he proceeded to earn a Ph.D. from Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology (Kyiv) in 2004. Later he conducted postdoctoral training... Read more →
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has a disproportionate effect in poor and underdeveloped countries without access to western medicine. According to the WHO’s World Malaria Report, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015 and an estimated 429,000 deaths. Malaria is caused... Read more →
Athens, GA–Mosquitoes transmit diseases such as Zika virus, dengue, and malaria to people and other vertebrates worldwide. In a newly funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project, Michael Strand and Mark Brown, both professors in the Department of Entomology and members of the Center for Tropical... Read more →
Manuel Fierro is a pre-doctoral trainee in Vasant Muralidharan’s Laboratory. He is originally from Ecuador. His family moved to the US when he was 9 years old, and he has lived in Georgia ever since. Manuel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Cellular Biology... Read more →
The Ledger-Enquirer features a story about Dr. Kojo Mensa-Wilmot’s new grant. Read more →
Kojo Mensa-Wilmot has received a $2.6 million award from The National Institutes of Health to develop new drugs to treat human African Trypanosomiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness. Read more →
Catherine Smith, a trainee in Julie Moore's lab, is a second-year recipient of our NIH-funded Training Grant. Read more →
Read about CTEGD's Spring and Summer activities in the new issue of CTEGD News. Read more →
Julie Moore and her colleagues at the University of Georgia have determined that oxidative stress plays a role in the poor pregnancy outcomes that occur during placental malaria. Furthermore, they have identified the antioxidant tempol (TPL) as a potential therapeutic treatment. Read more →
Boris Striepen’s work on Cryptosporidium is featured in this LinkedIn article. Read more →
Sumiti Vinayak’s award is mention on Impatient Optimist. Read more →
Sumiti Vinayak, an assistant research scientist in Boris Striepen’s laboratory, has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to develop a tool to study the function of essential genes in Cryptosporidium. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Infectious disease scientists from research institutions including the University of Georgia have reported the discovery and early validation of a drug that shows promise for treating cryptosporidiosis, a diarrheal disease that is a major cause of child mortality and for which... Read more →
By Sam Fahmy | May 15, 2017 First appeared in ColumnsUniversity of Georgia Regents’ Professor Michael R. Strand has received one of the highest honors a scientist can receive—election to the National Academy of Sciences. Strand, who holds an appointment in the entomology department of the College... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia Regents’ Professor Michael R. Strand has received one of the highest honors a scientist can receive-election to the National Academy of Sciences. Strand, who holds an appointment in the entomology department of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences... Read more →
CTEGD newsletter highlighting the accomplishments of faculty and trainees this semester Read more →
Jessica Kissinger is named Distinguished Research Professor. Read more →
Dennis Kyle is featured in this Columns article. Read more →
Jessica Kissinger is mentioned in this press release from Office of International Education. Read more →
Thirteen undergraduates from CTEGD labs will present their research at the annual Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4 at The Classic Center. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Roberto Docampo, Distinguished Research Professor of Cellular Biology and Barbara and Sanford Orkin/Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, has been named the University of Georgia’s recipient of the 2017 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. The award, which is administered by provosts at the... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Rick Tarleton, Distinguished Research Professor and University of georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Biological Sciences in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named Regents’ Professor, effective July 1. Regents’ Professorships are bestowed by the University System of Georgia’s... Read more →
Rick Tarleton is featured on AthensCEO.com Read more →
Michelle Evans, a graduate student in Courtney Murdock’s lab, is featured in The Red & Black. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika virus is mentioned on Fox New Health. Read more →
Attachment of human neutrophils and monocytes to Brugia malayi microfilaria precedes parasite killing. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika is featured on Siasat Daily. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika is featured on India Today. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research is featured on the Daily Commerical. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika virus is featured on Medical Express. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika virus is featured on Infection Control Today. Read more →
Courtney Murdock’s research on Zika is featured at the Spokesman-Review. Read more →
Virginia Tech announces the funding of a project in collaboration with Belen Cassera. Read more →
Voices from the Vanguard lecture is featured in the Athens Banner-Herald. Read more →
Rob Stein is NPR's health correspondent and senior editor and has been reporting on global infectious diseases since the early day of the AIDS pandemic. Stein will discuss his journey during his talk, "From AIDS to Zika: The View from the NPR Science Desk" on Tuesday. Read more →
The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development Read more →
Athens, Ga. — Dennis Kyle, one of the nation’s leading infectious disease researchers, will join the University of Georgia faculty as its newest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Kyle, currently a Distinguished Health Professor at the University of South Florida, will join UGA on... Read more →
Former postdoctoral trainee Lilach Sheiner teams up with Omar Harb to create the Middle Eastern Biology of Parasitism course. Read more →
Julie Moore is named a Women’s Leadership Fellow. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – An international team of researchers led by infectious disease experts at the University of Georgia has received $5.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a more accurate, affordable diagnostic test for Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that kills more... Read more →
Join us Monday, Sept 12 at 1 pm in room 404E of Biological Sciences Bldg to learn more about how you can help end neglected tropical diseases. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as sleeping sickness. By working to improve chemical entities already tested in human clinical trials, they hope to... Read more →
Members of CTEGD donated 14 backpacks, 2 boxes of school supplies and gift cards. Read more →
Dr. Rick Tarleton is mentioned in this press release from the Office of Research. Read more →
Research in Progress meetings will resume Monday, August 15. Read more →
The Office of Research announces Julie Moore’s appointment. Read more →
The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Disease is featured on the blog of Pamela Whitten, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Georgia. Read more →
Julie Moore strives to inspire students in the laboratory and the classroom. Recently she was recognized for her innovative classroom methods with a Creative Teaching Award from the University of Georgia. Read more →
Rick Tarleton and Boris Striepen are featured in UGA Research magazine‘s article on CRISPR. Read more →
Our May 2016 newsletter is now available. Read more →
Watch an interview with Roberto Docampo. Read more →
Three graduate students recently received awards for their research. Read more →
Learn more about Ph.D. candidate and Three Minute Thesis finalist Tara Bracken. Read more →
Join us on Tuesday, February 16 at 5:30 pm at the UGA Chapel. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they’ve been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single-celled organisms communicate. A University of Georgia study, published Jan. 14 in the journal Cell, helps solve this mystery.... Read more →
The Voices from the Vanguard lecture series kicks off Jan. 12. Read more →
Griffin, Ga. – In a recent study funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, University of Georgia researchers found that produce that contained bacteria would contaminate other produce items through the continued use of knives or graters—the bacteria would latch on to the utensils... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Researchers at the University of Georgia have received $1 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to speed the development of new drugs for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis, a major cause of diarrheal disease and mortality in... Read more →
The Department of Cellular Biology at The University of Georgia is searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor Biology of Parasitism. The successful candidate will also join the faculty of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Read more →
CTEGD is seeking a post-doctoral fellow for a position on the NIH funded T32 training grant. Read more →
Click on the title to read more about this year's trainees. Read more →
Dan Colley is featured in an article on The Athens Science Observer. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases was awarded $1.25 million by the National Institutes of Health to continue training graduate and postdoctoral students over the next five years who can help address the growing threats of parasitic... Read more →
The 2015 - 2016 Research in Progress kicks off on August 17. Read more →
As a consortium tasked with operational research, SCORE is finding out what current and future NTD program managers need to do to make mass drug administration (MDA) for schistosomiasis a better intervention in terms of alternative approaches. SCORE is also working to evaluate and develop tools needed by national program managers for mapping and diagnostics. Read more →
Boris Striepen, distinguished research professor, talks about the new tools his lab has developed for studying cryptosporidium in the laboratory. The lab's discoveries were recently published in Nature. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed new tools to study and genetically manipulate cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes the diarrheal disease cryptosporidiosis. Their discoveries, published in the journal Nature, will ultimately help researchers in academia and industry find new... Read more →
PREP@UGA wraps up its first year and will be welcoming a new cohort July 1. Read more →
Fourteen Japanese parasitologists helped celebrate the 25th year of the Molecular Parasitology/Vector Biology Symposium. Read more →
Vasant Muralidharan, assistant professor in the Department of Cellular Biology and member of CTEGD, received the Basil O'Conner Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation. Read more →
Julie Moore’s class People, Parasites, and Plagues is featured in Columns. Read more →
Click on the post title to view the speaker schedule for this year's symposium. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia entomologists have unlocked one of the hormonal mechanisms that allow mosquitoes to produce eggs. The results provide insight into how reproduction is regulated in female mosquitoes, which transmit agents that cause malaria and other diseases in humans and domestic... Read more →
Dan Colley is interviewed in a blog post for the Institue of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. Read more →
A research study Boris Striepen collaborated on is featured on USF Health website. Read more →
Vasant Muralidharan’s March of Dimes grant is mentioned in Columns. Read more →
Dr. Shipra Vaishnava, former CTEGD trainee in the Striepen Research Group, has been appointed to the faculty of Brown University in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Read more →
Grady News at UGA recently interviewed Dr. Rick Tarleton about his research on Chagas Disease. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia’s Voices from the Vanguard series continues Feb. 17 as Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication, gives his perspective on communication as a public health tool. The presentation, “Communication as a Public Health Tool:... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia researchers in collaboration with Anacor Pharmaceuticals have received a $5.3 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a new drug for the treatment of Chagas disease, which they hope will be ready to enter clinical trials by 2016.... Read more →
Dr. Rick Tarleton, in collaboration with Anacor Pharmaceuticals, was successful in having their Chagas disease drug discovery project funded by the Wellcome Trust. The objective of the project is to deliver a new drug candidate ready to enter clinical trials by 2016. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received an additional $710,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research into the elimination of schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease affecting millions of people throughout most of Africa and some of... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – “CDC, Hollywood and the early days of AIDS in the U.S.,” will be the topic of the next Voices from the Vanguard lecture at the University of Georgia. To be held Jan. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the UGA Chapel, the lecture... Read more →
University of Pennsylvania announces contract. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – A genome database team led by University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia scientists has been awarded a new contract from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease worth $4.3 million in 2014-2015. Assuming annual renewal, this five-year award is expected... Read more →
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia and Emory University are strengthening their collaborations to elevate the position of the Atlanta-Athens corridor as a national hub for infectious disease research. The two institutions are currently working together on grant and contract-funded projects totaling more than... Read more →
Microscopy image taken by Dr. Muthugapatti Kandasamy, director of the Biomedical Microscopy Core, wins 5th place at the 40th Anniversary Nikon Small World Contest. Read more →
Briana Flaherty, a T32 Training Grant graduate student in David Peterson's laboratory, shares about her studies at UGA and her capstone experience in Kenya. Read more →
The Washington Post reporter Todd Frankel shared his experience covering the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone during a public lecture at the UGA Chapel on October 23, 2014. The lecture was co-sponsored by CTEGD, Grady College, and the Office of Academic Programs. See video. Read more →
Athens, Ga. – Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered a new way to direct a vaccine to the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a leading cause of death among young to middle-age adults in areas of South America where it is endemic. Chagas... Read more →
Jessica Kissinger is featured in this article in Columns. Read more →
Kevin Vogel, a post-doctoral fellow in Mike Strand’s laboratory, is mentioned in Columns. Read more →
Jessica Lopes da Rosa-Spiegler, a post-doctoral fellow in Bob Sabatini’s laboratory, is mentioned in Columns. Read more →
