- April 28, 2021
National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members from Yale
- January 30, 2020
A Tsetse Fly’s Bite Can be Fatal. New YSPH Research Takes a Step Toward Ending That
- March 01, 2019
Gut Bacteria Neutralizes Disease-Carrying Tsetse Flies
- February 20, 2019
Nine From Medical School Are Among 13 Yale Faculty Named to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
- December 12, 2018
Disrupting Disease
Welcome to the Aksoy Lab
Trypanosomiasis/Tsetse Research
Our lab studies multiple aspects of tsetse flies, the vectors of African trypanosomes. Trypanosomes are the causative agents of the devastating Sleeping Sickness disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. The lab’s work spans a range of projects including tsetse immunity, reproduction and symbiosis, tsetse-symbiont and trypanosome interactions, tsetse genomics and population genetics, and trypanosome developmental processes in tsetse. The ultimate goal of our work is to improve current control methods and/or develop novel strategies to reduce or eliminate the transmission of Sleeping Sickness in Sub-Saharan Africa.