Department of Infectious Diseases
Professor, Department Head, Director, GRA Eminent Scholar, Joint Faculty
Expertise
Animal Models of Human Disease | Cell Culture | Drug Discovery & Resistance Mechanisms | Infectious Diseases | Parasitology
Education
- B.A. in Biology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1979
- Ph.D. in Zoology, Clemson University, 1984
Teaching
- Parasitology
- Drug discovery
- Infectious Diseases
Research Interest
- Drug discovery and development
- Antimalarial resistance
- Plasmodium spp.
- Naegleria fowleri
- Brain-eating amoebae
- Larval stages of fish and turtle blood flukes
Please note: No longer accepting new graduate students or postdocs.
