Serap Aksoy

Department Of Epidemeology and Public Health, Yale University, United States of America

Prof. Serap Aksoy attended Vassar College and Columbia University where she has received her PhD in Biology. She completed her postdoctoral studies at Yale University School of Medicine. She is currently the Head of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Division at Yale School of Public Health. She is author or coauthors of many scientific peer review papers and book chapters and has lectured internationally on insect-transmitted disease and their control.

Her laboratory studies focus on tsetse flies, which transmit the protozoan parasite African trypanosomes, agents of Sleeping sickness. Her group investigates the molecular aspects of tsetse immune responses during parasite transmission, with the eventual goal of manipulating these host responses to block disease transmission. The group has pioneered a paratransgenic approach where trypanocidal products are expressed in the gut symbiont flora to block parasite development. The replacement of tsetse populations with their engineered parasite refractory counterparts can provide a novel approach for control of disease in the field.

Editorial Board, Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Editorial Board, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Global Health (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/faculty/aksoy.html

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Pirk is a negative regulator of the Drosophila Imd pathway.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy with Jingwen Wang
  
• 3.0
  Global metabolic responses of mice to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy with Amy F Savage
  
• 6.0
  Dual lipolytic control of body fat storage and mobilization in Drosophila.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy with Geoffrey Attardo
  
• 6.0
  Innate immune homeostasis by the homeobox gene caudal and commensal-gut mutualism in Drosophila.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy
  
• 6.0
  A Cellular Basis for Wolbachia Recruitment to the Host Germline.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy with Uzma Alam
  
• 3.0
  Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy with Suleyman Yildirim
  
• 6.0
  A specific primed immune response in Drosophila is dependent on phagocytes.
  Recommended by Serap Aksoy