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Professor Roditi is codirector of the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Berne in Switzerland. She received her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Cambridge, Wolfson College, and her D.Habil. in 1993 from the University of Berne. She did postdoctoral work with the Medical Research Council in Cambridge and later at the Institute for Genetics and Toxicology at Karlsruhe University in Germany. In 1993 she received the Helmut Horten Förderpreis, and, in 2001, she received the Cloetta Prize; in 2001, she was elected a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Isabel Roditi wants to learn more about surface proteins that govern survival and transmission of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, by its insect host, the tsetse fly. Using a fully transmissible strain of T. brucei enables her to monitor the parasite throughout its life cycle in the fly. The long-range goal of such studies is to find ways to interrupt transmission of the disease.
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