Abhinaya Venkatesan
PhD student, Dr. John Gilleard, Dept. of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Calgary
Host-Parasite Interactions
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Bioinformatics
SRM University, Chennai, India, 2016
Contact information
Research
Research areas
- Parasitic nematodes of humans • Global health • Molecular diagnostics • Drug resistance
Biography
Abhinaya, a PhD student in Veterinary Medical Sciences, is supervised by Dr. John Gilleard. Her research focuses on understanding and screening the emergence of drug resistance in parasitic nematodes that infect humans.
Awards
Dean’s International Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, 2020.
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, 2019
UCalgary 3 Minute Thesis Competition, 2019 Heats – People’s Choice Award