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• Tsetse Functional Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Tsetse Population Genetics
• Trypanosome Biology in Tsetse
• Tsetse Immunity
• Biology of Tsetse Symbionts
• Paratransgenesis
• Wolbachia Symbiont/Gene Drive Strategies

Tsetse Genomics

• Transcriptome analysis of reproductive tissue and intrauterine developmental stages of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans)
• An insight into the sialome of Glossina morsitans morsitans
• Analysis of fat body transcriptome from the adult tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans.
• Adult midgut expressed sequence tags from the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans and expression analysis of putative immune response genes
• A case for a Glossina genome project.

Trypanosome Genomics

• Comparative genomics to uncover the secrets of tsetse and livestock-infective trypanosomes.

Symbiont Genomics

• Interactions among multiple genomes: tsetse, its symbionts and trypanosomes.
• Comparative genomics of insect-symbiotic bacteria: influence of host environment on microbial genome composition.
• Genome sequence of the endocellular obligate symbiont of tsetse flies, Wigglesworthia glossinidia.
• Genome size determination and coding capacity of Sodalis glossinidius, an enteric symbiont of tsetse flies, as revealed by hybridization to Escherichia coli gene arrays.