Abdullah Gharamah
Assistant Professor of Parasitology and Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Public Health
PhD - Molecular Parasitology,
Postdoctoral Fellow
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My postdoctoral research is focused on isolating immune factors from snails, and studying their effect in enhancing the immune response of snail against human shistosomes. Also, I am validating probe-based qPCR assays to detect the infective stage of human schistosomes (cercariae). This can help in the rapid diagnosis of these waterborne parasites (S. mansoni and S. haematobium) in water samples. This will lead to enhancing the control programs and show the efficiency of these programs by providing information about the distribution and abundance of these schistosomes in water.
Publications
Hongyu Li, Jacob R. Hambrook, Emmanuel A. Pila, Abdullah A. Gharamah, Jing Fang, Xinzhong Wu, Patrick C. Hanington (2020). Coordination between humoral immune factors dictates compatibility between Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria glabrata. eLife 2020;9:e51708. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51708
Jacob R. Hambrook, Abdullah A. Gharamah, Emmanuel Pila, Solomon Hussein, Patrick C.Hanington (2019). Biomphalaria glabrata Granulin Increases Resistance to Schistosoma mansoni Infection in Several Biomphalaria Species and Induces the Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by Haemocytes. Genes 2020, 11, 38; doi:10.3390/genes11010038.