Research News

GW Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Retreat - Dr. Hovel-Miner and Students (Indea Rogers, Kenna Berg, and Hayley Ramirez) share their data at our annual departmental retreat.
Graduate students Kenna Berg and Hayley Ramirez Present posters at PAraCon 2023
Graduate students Kenna Berg and Hayley Ramirez Present posters at Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) 2023 in Woods Hole, MA
Preprint available for new manuscript
Every pathogen faces a similar predicament of how to exploit nutrient-rich, but often inhospitable, host environments.
African trypanosomes establish deadly, chronic infections of trypanosomiasis in the bloodstream by using repetitive 70-bp regions in the genome to regularly change out the active coat protein gene.