Paratransgenic Approaches to Vector-Borne Diseases

Date

29/09/2017

Hour

10.00 h

Place

Aula 10, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut (Campus Clínic), Universitat de Barcelona
(Casanova, 143) Barcelona

Speakers

Ravi Durvasula (University of New Mexico, USA)

Dr. Ravi V. Durvasula, professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico (USA) and chief of Medicine at the New Mexico VA Health Care System, will give the open seminar entitled "Paratransgenic Approaches to Vector-Borne Diseases".

His laboratory focuses on transgenic and paratransgenic approaches to control of vector-borne diseases such as Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, and he currently has collaborative research programs in Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina and India. His research also involves development of novel paratransgenic delivery systems for application at human mucosal surfaces.

Dr. Durvasula is an authority on human vector-borne diseases and has been developing novel methods for controlling various arthropod pests. Hi is the co-inventor of EcoPesticide’s encapsulation technology and a pioneer in the development of novel approaches to control infectious disease transmission, including a strategy termed paratransgenesis.