Toxoplasmosis
Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Immunobiology, Associate Professor, Evelyn F Mcknight Brain Institute, Associate Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP, Associate Professor, Medicine, Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
We study how a common intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, persists in, and potentially changes, the mammalian brain. Understanding the Toxoplasma-brain interaction offers the opportunity to develop better therapies to treat toxoplasmosis as well as giving new insights into how to manipulate the brain immune response which has been implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases.