Dr Andrew Jackson

My research concerns the evolution of parasitism. I use genomics and other systems-data to test evolutionary ideas within a comparative method, with three aims. 1) To Examine the origins of parasitism, using comparative genomics to reveal the evolutionary changes that led to parasitism in clades such as Kinetoplastids, Stramenopiles, Amoebae and Trichomonads. 2) To understand the innovations by which parasites cause disease, with applications in cell biology, and pathogenesis. 3) To apply our knowledge of how parasite genomes evolve in antigen discovery, reverse vaccinology, disease epidemiology and other approaches.