May 2019 – Issue 5(3) - The invisibility cloak of nature’s most complex and challenging parasites

Why this research is important Diseases caused by parasites threaten the lives of nearly prevent the establishment of stages in the hosts, or 80% of the world’s human population; about one-third of through the use of insecticides or pesticides to prevent these infections are caused by the parasites we study in establishment of infectious stages in insect vectors—i.e., this research. [...] As most of the drugs used to programs rely on the method of ‘environmental sanitation’ combat these infections are obsolete due to resistance, new either through the use of therapeutic agents to eliminate or methods of control are urgently needed. [...] manipulate the genome (e.g., gene deletion or silencing of How the research was conducted components of antigenic variation) to ultimately unlock We work with a kinetoplastid, Cryptobia salmositica, the secrets of the invisibility cloak. [...] She completed the Cryptobia environment yet still be able to explore all of the unusual genome project with the assistance of Ms. [...] salmositica genome (i.e., all of the As, Ts, Gs and Cs) summary is supported by the Office of Research Services and transfer it to a Word document, the document would and by the Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education be 12,786 pages long.