The Babayan Group

The Core Team

• Dr. Simon Babayan: working on stuff.
• HongLin Luo: PhD student, working on DNA vaccines in the Litomosoides sigmodontis - BALB/c model.
• Nick Gray: lab technician, directly involved in all the group's projects.
• Leo Strutt: MSc student

Collaborators based in Edinburgh

• Judi Allen: immunology of helminth parasitic infections.
• Rick Maizels: helminth protein function and immunoparasitology.
• Amy Pedersen: host-parasite co-infection dynamics in wild rodent populations.
• Matthew Taylor: T cell regulation in helminth infections.
• Mark Blaxter: genomes and transcriptomes of all things wriggly.
• Jos Houdijk: nutritional control of parasitism.
• Tom Little: co-evolution between unicellular parasites and invertebrates.
• Andrew MacDonald: immunology of Schistosome infections.
• Sarah Reece: evolution and ecology of malaria phenotypic plasticity and life-history strategies.
• David Taylor: our fearless EU grant coordinator.
• Peter Ghazal and the Division of Pathway Medicine

Research Institutes and Interest Groups

• Wild Immunology Group: traditional immunology has taught us a great deal about inbred model organisms in the laboratory, but too little about real species in the wild.
• Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution: based on a core platform of leading researchers in the areas of microbial and parasite infections, immunology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology.
• Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh.

External Collaborators