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Current research questions
- Will medical science prompt the evolution of more virulent or more infectious pathogens?
- How will malaria parasites evolve if a malaria vaccine goes into widespread use?
- How did the chicken industry cause Marek’s
disease virus to evolve hyperpathogencity?
- Can we slow the evolution of drug-resistant pathogens?
- Can we stop the evolution of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes?
- Can entomopathogenic fungi be used to produce cheap organic pesticide for sustainable malaria control?
Questions we've worked on
- Why is malaria not a more serious disease?
- Do mosquitoes get malaria?
- How does host variation impact on the evolution of virulence?
- How does competition between malaria parasites in an infection work?
- How does in-host competition affect parasite evolution?
- Do genetically diverse infections make hosts sicker or more infectious?
- How does natural selection solve the trade-off between replication within a host and transmission from it?
- When and how does pathogen-imposed selection favour increased host resistance?
- How does host immunity shape parasite life history strategies?
- How does natural selection act on malaria sex ratios?
- To what extent are parasite virulence and host resistance environmentally determined?
- How do immune systems evolve?
- Is within-host competition observed in mixed Trypanosome clone infections?