Strand, Mike

Mike Strand
Distinguished Research Professor
Entomology
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Bacterial modulation of eukaryotic membrane dynamics for intracellular survival;
SNARE-dependent membrane fusion biochemistry.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology: DNA modification, homologous recombination
and the regulation of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei.
Tuberculosis pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions.
Transient evolution of pathogens. Evolutionary processes involved in cross-species transmission. Evolutionary constraints in viral epidemiology.
Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites.
Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.
Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi.
X-ray crystallography of macromolecules, prokaryotic transcriptional regulators.
Cell Signaling, Organelle Biogenesis, and Drug Discovery in Trypanosomes.
Evolution, organogenesis, and function of the thymus and parathyroids.