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The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

Featured News

Dictyostelium is an amoeba that loves to crawl on glass, and the green stain prominently displays its cytoskeleton after the cells were fixed and permeabilized, using an anti-actin antibody. The new anti-O-fucose antibody, created by Tiwari, illustrates in red the concentration of O-fucose proteins within the nucleus, highlighted by the blue dye. One of the cells has 2 nuclei, and the white bar measures 5 microns.

UGA biochemists create new tool to study biological process in parasites >>Read More>>

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Scientists use ‘One Health’ model to fight Chagas disease >>Read More>>

Studio portrait of Chester Chet Joyner.

Chet Joyner receives Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award >>Read More>>

Recent Publications

Figure 1.Hypothetical model of memory Treg development. Activated Tregs, which proliferate in the acute phase of malaria, leave a memory Treg pool in mice and humans.

Regulatory T cell memory: implications for malaria >>Abstract>>

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Lysosome and plasma membrane Piezo channels of Trypanosoma cruzi are essential for proliferation, differentiation and infectivity >>Abstract>>

Figure 2 Monthly screening protocol for macaques.

Serial ‘deep-sampling’ PCR of fragmented DNA reveals the wide range of Trypanosoma cruzi burden among chronically infected human, macaque, and canine hosts, and allows accurate monitoring of parasite load following treatment >>Abstract>>

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Researchers in the University of Georgia’s West Laboratory are interested in how unicellular parasites thrive in their environments. Focusing on post-translational modifications of proteins, particularly a crucial process called glycosylation, researchers are gaining insights into how this basic life process in parasites can lead to better treatments for diseases. Read more