Schistosoma transfer – travel grant (Old ID 23086)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
The technique I will learn at Ruperti's laboratory at the National Research Council (Italy) will allow us to transfer adult schistosomes from one host into a recipient host. This surgical procedure consists in transferring live adult schistosomes obtained from mice (or other hosts) into the mesenteric veins of recipient mice. The major advantage of this technique is that adults obtained from a host can be treated in different ways and by transferring them back into new hosts we can study the survival rate of the treated worms. This will help us identify the key genes and proteins involved in parasite establishment and survival and develop new and more effective vaccines and drugs against this devastating disease.
Date
18 Mar 2017 - 27 Mar 2017
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Schistosoma;Schistosomiasis;Transfer technique
Funding Body
Australian Society for Parasitology
Amount
2727
Project Team
N/A