Etheridge, Ronald D.

Ronald D. Etheridge
Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology
Toxoplasma’s Strategies to Manipulate Host Immunity
Toxoplasma’s Strategies to Manipulate Host Immunity
We use ecological and evolutionary theory to study mosquito-parasite interactions,
ecological drivers of transmission, and how environmental change affects transmission.
Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum.
Molecular helminthology: in particular the interactions of
anthelmintic drugs with ion channels in the nervous systems
of parasitic helminths, and the molecular basis of drug resistance.
Mechanisms of immunity and disease in Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas Disease); Basic and applied biology of T. cruzi.
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology: DNA modification, homologous recombination
and the regulation of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei.
Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites.
Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.
Cell Signaling, Organelle Biogenesis, and Drug Discovery in Trypanosomes.