Who we are

Assistant Professor

University of California Irvine

Research Focus: Parasite ecology and using parasites to enhance general ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral science and education; STEM education; teaching and learning strategies for undergraduate biology

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Postdoctoral Fellow

The Francis Crick Institute

Research Focus: Cell biology of host-pathogen interactions using Cryptosporidium; host cytoskeleton and innate immunity using organoids and mice as model systems; development of new models to understand the evolution of Apicomplexans.

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Research Assistant

Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku

Research Focus: Identification of Cryptosporidium sp. in drinking water in Gabon

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Francis Crick Institute

Research Focus: Cryptosporidium and microbiomes

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Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology

Research Focus: correlation of hematological indices to PCR findings in children suffering from giardiasis

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Undergraduate

University of Quindío

Research Interests: I really like parasites, it is my area of interest, and I want to learn more about them and their applications

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Undergraduate Student

University of Ghana

Research Focus: Host-parasite interactions

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Clinical Laboratory Scientist

National Ear Care Centre Kaduna

Research Focus: Immunoparasitology, Host-Parasite interaction, and Molecular Parasitology.

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Principal Investigator

University of Pennsylvania

Research Focus: We are interested in exploring the immunology and molecular biology of parasitic nematodes. Our work has uncovered multiple mechanisms of host protective immunity and immunoregulation in both human and mouse systems.

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Principal Investigator

University of California Riverside

Research Focus: My lab investigates the immune response to lung and intestinal helminth infection. In these infectious settings, we study the function of innate cells such as macrophages that infiltrate the infected tissue and secrete the small regulatory RELM proteins or respond to endocannabinoid.

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Principal Investigator

New York City College of Technology

Research Focus: Immunology of malaria and other tropical infections.

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Postdoctoral Scholar

National Institutes of Health (NIH-NIAID)

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The 'secret life' of Leishmania inside the sand fly, including its cryptic sexual cycle, identification of gamete-like cell types and their role in genetic exchange, impact of the life cycle in the sand fly on Leishmania transmission and disease progression.

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Graduate Student

Kenyatta University

Research Focus: Evaluation of the efficacy of methanol plant extracts against L.donovani, both in vitro and in vivo

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Postdoctoral Fellow

NIAID, NIH

Research Focus: Molecular Biology, Genetics, and host-parasite interaction in Leishmania parasites, with emphasis on genetic exchange, gene expression control, and virulence.

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Principal investigator

CIDEIM Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas

Research Focus: Translational research on neglected infectious diseases; molecular mechanisms determining the outcome of human infections caused by intracellular parasites; leishmaniasis; optimization of treatments and prevent pathology.

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Postdoctoral Scholar

Shiraz University of Medical Science

Research Focus: Emphasis on the diagnosis, epidemiology, and treatment of parasitic infection. My research covers a range of parasitic diseases, including leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, hydatid disease, and trypanosomiasis. I have used a variety of approaches, such as serology, molecular biology, computational screening, and clinical studies, to investigate these diseases.

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Principal Investigator

Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas

Research Focus: Epidemiology and clinical consequences of malaria, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, babesiosis and toxocariasis; including its occurrence in travelers and immunosuppressive populations.

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Graduate Student

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Research Focus: Study of innate immune responses to Neospora caninum

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Principal Investigator

Indiana University

Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms underlying DNA segregation, nuclear division, and host-pathogen interactions during Plasmodium falciparum proliferation; discovery of novel druggable targets for developing new antimalarials.

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Graduate Student

University of Ghana

Research Focus: Plasmodium

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Graduate Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Focus: developing computational and molecular tools to manipulate gene expression and enable the use of synthetic biology in malaria parasites.

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Graduate Student

Université Grenoble-Alpes

Research Focus: Membrane biogenesis and lipid flux.

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Principal Investigator

Wake Forest University

Research Focus: Malaria host-pathogen interactions.

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Postdoctoral Fellow,

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

Research Focus: Host-parasite interactions of Plasmodium and Trypanosoma brucei at the vascular endothelium. My expertise is in microscopy, and a main interest of mine is understanding biophysics mediating parasite dynamics in tissues.

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Graduate Student

Birla Institute of Technology and Science

Research Focus: Transcriptome-wide analysis of clinical isolates of Plasmodium falciparum and their correlation with DNA methylation.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

American Museum of Natural History

Research Focus: The impacts of anthropogenic change, climate change as well and land cover change on pathogen virulence and avian host immune response using an integrative framework of disease ecology, host immunology, and predictive modeling to examine the response of avian disease, primarily avian malaria, to global climate change.

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Principal Investigator

Columbia University

Research Focus: Understanding the molecular basis of host-pathogen interactions mediated by large membrane protein complexes at the host-parasite interface in blood-stage malaria parasites using cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and in situ cryoelectron tomography (cryoET).

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Researcher

Gombe State University

Research Focus: Molecular parasitology, malaria parasites

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Principal Investigator

Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona

Research Focus: Function of carbohydrate-active enzymes and the glycobiology of P. falciparum, drug discovery.

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Graduate Student

KEMRI-USAMRD/A

Research Focus: To dig deep in population genetics in parasite research and be able to answer more research questions in the field of malaria research.

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Graduate Student

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya

Research Focus: Plasmodium

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Principal Investigator

Drexel University

Research Focus: Metabolism, bioenergetics, and stuff of parasites and all other organisms.

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Associate Professor

University of Georgia

Research Focus: organization and function of the Plasmodium secretory pathway in two parasite-specific biological processes: 1. The export of parasite effectors to the host red blood cell. 2. Egress of the parasite daughter cells from the infected red blood cell.

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Research Associate

Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID)

Research Focus: Cellular and biological interaction between Plasmodium parasite and Anopheles vectors.

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Graduate Student

Drexel University

Research Focus: Understanding the biology of Plasmodium falciparum in identifying essential genes and proteins that could be potential drug targets.

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Postdoctoral Scholar

University of Pennsylvania

Research Focus: Host-pathogen interactions from a structural point of view. CryoET, Plasmodium.

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Research Associate

Johns Hopkins University

Research Focus: Characterizing metabolic capacities of the Plasmodium apicoplast and mitochondrion

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Pennsylvania State University

Research Focus: Understanding how malaria parasites adapt their metabolism upon becoming resistant to antimalarial compounds; I LCMS metabolomics to identify exploitable metabolic vulnerabilities that arise with resistance to various compounds.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Princeton University

Research Focus: Evolution and ecology of malaria in Madagascar human and nonhuman hosts.

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Graduate Student

Washington University in St. Louis

Research Focus: Asparagine-rich proteome and survival to fever.

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Graduate Student

University of Georgia

Research Focus: Malaria transmission and how environmental changes affect Plasmodium parasite fitness and infection establishment in the human/vertebrate host.

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Graduate Student

Institute of advance biosciences

Research Focus: Lipid metabolism in Apicomplexa parasites, specifically P. falciparum and T. gondii

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Postdoctoral Scholar

University of Georgia

Research Focus: Cell-autonomous immunity to liver-stage malaria

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Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Glasgow

Research Focus: Sexual commitment and early gametocyte development.

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Graduate Student

University of Melbourne

Research Focus: Plasmodium

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Postdoctoral Scholar

Weill Cornell Medicine

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DNA repair mechanisms and antigenic diversification in human malaria parasite

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Research Associate

University of Nottingham

Research Focus: Atypical cell division with emphasis on mosquito stages.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

L'université des sciences et de la technologie Houari-Boumédiène (USTHB)

Research Focus: Fish parasitologist

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Principal Investigato

İstanbul Medeniyet University

Research Focus: Echinococcus sp. and other helminths.

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Graduate Student

University of Basel/Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Research Focus: Molecular microbiologist with an interest in the development of field-based diagnostic tools for helminth infection and the understanding of host-parasite interactions through microbiome analysis.

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Principal Investigator

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Research Focus: highlighting several other canine Sarcoptes diagnostic methods to complement the conventional skin scrapping technique in Nigeria

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Scientist

University of Michigan

Research Focus: Molecular epidemiologist passionate about neglected tropical diseases, especially schistosomiasis. Incorporating social epidemiology and global health lens.

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Graduate Student

McGill University

Research focus: vaccine development for S. mansoni using an attenuated Salmonella Typhimurium strain as a vector.

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Graduate Student

University of South Bohemia

Research Focus: Diversity of bird schistosomes in Europe; detection using standard method and eDNA metabarcoding

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Principal Investigator

University of Texas Houston, McGovern Medical School

Research Focus: Developmental regulation of schistosomes and its relation to parasite survival and immune evasion

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Graduate Student

Brown University

Research focus: the relationship between protective immune responses to parasite antigens and naturally acquired resistance to schistosomiasis in endemic populations. My main project focuses on identifying candidates for developing vaccines against human and bovine schistosomiasis japonica.

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Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California Los Angeles

Research Focus: Mechanisms underlying sensory responses to carbon dioxide in Strongyloides species.

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Project Scientist

University of Los Angeles, California

Research Focus: Transgenesis and neural development in Strongyloides species

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Undergraduate Student

University of California, Los Angeles

Research Focus: investigating the sensory responses of parasitic worms to host-associated and environmental bacteria.

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Research Associate

University of Glasgow

Research Focus: The molecular epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii among rodents.

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Principal Investigator

Indiana University School of Medicine

Research Focus: cell biology of Toxoplasma gondii, with a special interest in the signaling mechanisms that regulate the propagation of the parasite.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Indiana University

Research Focus: Translational regulation in Toxoplasma gondii

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Lecturer

Sohag University

Research Focus: molecular biology of Toxoplasma gondii in humans, especially immunocompromised patients.

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Principal Investigator

Laboratory of Apicomplexan Biology, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo; Universidad de La Republica School of Medicine

Research Focus: Mechanisms of transmission and pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum using molecular genetics, genomics and microscopy-based approaches.

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Principal Investigator

Universidad del Quindio

Research Focus: Human toxoplasmosis. Development of methods to monitor and control waterborne and food protozoa (Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora). Development of vaccines and new drugs for human toxoplasmosis

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Principal Investigator

Santa Clara University

Research Focus: Developmental biology and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii.

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Principal Investigator

University of Arizona; BIO5 Institute, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute

Research focus: Physician-scientist (but just an MD) who studies how T. gondii persists in the brain.

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California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Research Focus: Innate immunity to T. gondii infection and mechanisms of parasite immune evasion.

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MIT; Whitehead Institute

Research Focus: Parasitology, Cell Biology, Proteomics, Functional Genomics

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Principal Investigator

INSERM / PARAFRAP (scientific coordinator)

Research Focus: Toxoplasma (epi)genetic paths involved in immune evasion, parasite persistence, and transmission.

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Graduate Student

University of Bonn

Research Focus: Gene regulation in Apicomplexan parasites

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Principal Investigator

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

Research Focus: Mitochondria, microbes

Postdoctoral Fellow

Indiana University School of Medicine

Research Focus: the metabolism of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the causing agent of Chagas Disease, and the mitochondrial biology of Toxoplasma gondii

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Graduate Student

Universidade Federal Fluminense and Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Research Focus: The effects of the infection by T. gondii in the retina of mice.

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Principal Investigator

University of University of Michigan)

Research Focus: Immune response that determines host resistance to Toxoplasma infection; molecular basis of Toxoplasma effector-mediated host immune modulation.

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Principal Investigator

Cal Poly Pomona

Research Focus: studies molecular immune mechanisms used against vaginal Trichomonad parasites with reproductive health impacts, including Trichomonas vaginalis and Trichomonas foetus.

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Graduate Student

Cal Poly Pomona

Research Focus: Complement receptors, specifically CD11b, CD11c, and CD18, and what role they may or may not play in the trogocytosis of Trichomonas vaginalis by the host’s neutrophils.

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Principal Investigator

IBR-CONICET

Research Focus: The role of tubulin posttranslational modifications (especially tubulin acetylation) during replication and differentiation in Trypanosoma cruzi. We have identified several new drug targets against T. cruzi involved in acetylation-dependent cellular processes.

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Associate Professor

University of South Carolina Beaufort

Research Focus: The goal of my research program focuses on discovering novel chemical compounds that inhibit enzyme targets of Trypanosoma cruzi and I have an interest in the potential drug-target glucokinase (TcGlcK). Therapeutic drug discovery strategies that I have worked on include SBDD, X-ray crystallography, virtual screening, hit-to-lead expansions, SAR, and HTS.

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Principal Investigator

University of São Paolo

Research Focus: Understand the main aspects related to DNA metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi (etiological agent of Chagas disease) and Leishmania spp. (etiological agent of leishmaniases).

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Principal Investigator

Wageningen University and Research

Research Focus: Comparative Immunology & host-pathogen interaction; use fish and chicken to study the evolution of the vertebrates' immune system; use pathogens (trypanosomes and viruses) to trigger an immune response; zebrafish-trypanosome infection model.

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Principal Investigator

California State University Fullerton

Research Focus: Role of ion channels in sensing and adaptation to environmental conditions in protozoan parasites; mechanosensation; electrophysiology.

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Principal Investigator

University of Cincinnati

Research Focus: Study of signal transduction pathways in trypanosomes, flagellated protozoan parasites that produce fatal diseases like sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei, and Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. How these parasites undergo developmental transformations in response to microenvironmental changes is one of the main questions we seek to answer.

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Research Associate

Laikipia University

Research Focus: characterization of trypanosomes in livestock in semi indigenous livestock of Kerio Valley

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Veterinarian

University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Research focus: Molecular characterization, pathogenicity, chemotherapy and drug-resistance studies of African trypanosomiasis

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Graduate Student

Institute for Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis Research Southwest zonal office, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Epidemiology and control of trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis research

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Senior Lecturer

Edge Hill University

Research Focus: Divergent stress responses in kinetoplastid parasites.

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Research Associate

University of California, Los Angeles

Research Focus: the role of the flagellum in parasite biology (molecular mechanisms underlying flagellar motility, role of motility during host infection, sensing/signaling through the flagellum)

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Sir Henry Dale Fellow

Dept. of Life Sciences, Imperial College London

Research Focus: using molecular approaches to study the regulation of intracellular iron homeostasis in the African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, Los Angeles

Research Focus: cAMP signaling in trypanosomes

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Undergraduate Student

California State University Fullerton

Research Focus: I study the function of a mechanosensitive ion channel in T. brucei and its role in social motility and mitochondrial function.

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Principal Investigator

University of Botswana

Research Focus: Taxonomy and ecology of aquatic animal parasites, especially freshwater fish and snails; One-health and aquatic health.

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Scientist

Sylhet Agricultural University - Bangladesh

Research Focus: Molecular parasitology and drug discovery

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