Tapoka T. Mkandawire

PhD Student

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

PhD candidate developing in vitro models to study the role of the gut microbiome in T. trichiuria hatching and host-parasite interactions during infection.

PhD rotation projects include:

• ‘Investigating the Effect of the Microbiome on Parasitic Worm Infection’
• ‘Investigating the Diversity and Spread of Pathogenic E.coli in Europe’; and
• ‘Systematic Extracellular Protein Interaction Screens to Identify Novel Receptor-Ligand Pairs Involved in the Pathogenesis of Schistosomiasis and Malaria’.

Previously MPhil in Genomics student in the Host-Microbiota Interactions Lab, investigating the population of plasmids in the gut microbiota.

My timeline

• Joined Wellcome Trust 4 Year PhD Program

• MPhil in Genomics

• Joined MPhil in Genomic Science Program

• BSc Hons Molecular Biology- University of Manchester