Erick Awuoche
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About
Titles
Postdoctoral Associate
Biography
Insect vector disease; Tsetse-trypanosome interactions; Trypanosoma congolense
Appointments
Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MSc
- Institute of Tropical Medicine (Antwerp, Belgium), Animal Health (Control of Animal and Zoonotic Diseases) (2010)
- BSc
- Maseno University, Biomedical Science (2007)
Research
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Frequent collaborators of Erick Awuoche's published research.
Brian Weiss, PhD
Serap Aksoy, PhD
Publications
2024
Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei
Beaver A, Keneskhanova Z, Cosentino R, Weiss B, Awuoche E, Smallenberger G, Buenconsejo G, Crilly N, Smith J, Hakim J, Zhang B, Bobb B, Rijo-Ferreira F, Figueiredo L, Aksoy S, Siegel T, Mugnier M. Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei. Nature 2024, 1-8. PMID: 39478231, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08151-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVariant surface glycoproteinAntigenic diversityAntigenic variationHigh-throughput sequencing approachDense variant surface glycoproteinPopulations of T. bruceiDynamics of antigenic variationGenomic repertoirePathogen diversificationSequencing approachExtravascular spaceTrypanosoma bruceiVariation in vivoHost immune systemAntigenic variation in vivoSurface glycoproteinSlow immune responseDiversitySwitching expressionParasite populations