Tapoka T. Mkandawire

PhD Student

 

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PhD candidate developing in vitro models to study the role of the gut microbiome in T. trichiuria hatching and host-parasite interactions during infection.

PhD rotation projects include:

  • ‘Investigating the Effect of the Microbiome on Parasitic Worm Infection’
  • ‘Investigating the Diversity and Spread of Pathogenic E.coli in Europe’; and
  • ‘Systematic Extracellular Protein Interaction Screens to Identify Novel Receptor-Ligand Pairs Involved in the Pathogenesis of Schistosomiasis and Malaria’.

Previously MPhil in Genomics student in the Host-Microbiota Interactions Lab, investigating the population of plasmids in the gut microbiota.

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