We are a research lab in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, studying how parasitic nematodes — canine heartworm, the agents of human lymphatic filariasis, and canine hookworm — establish infection in their hosts. We combine molecular parasitology, immunology, and genomics/transcriptomics to understand host specificity and drug resistance, and we work toward laboratory alternatives to animal models wherever we can.
Our lab also directs FR3, the NIH/NIAID-funded Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center, which supplies filarial parasites, molecular reagents, and protocols to researchers around the world.