Early-stage diagnostics: How high-throughput sequencing helps Cambridge researcher accurately detect helminth infections
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Duration:
4 minutes
Speaker Details
In this video, Marina Papaiakovou, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, discusses her research focused on developing and optimizing qPCR-based diagnostics for helminth infections, and reveals how high-throughput sequencing methods are helping her effectively characterize and understand helminth infections and their interactions with the gut microbiota.
Key Insights
- Learn about the technology used to analyze a large number of stool samples while preserving parasite diversity.
- Understand the research goals focused on helminth infections and their interaction with the microbiome.
- Explore how the host's immune response is studied in relation to helminth infections.
About Speaker
Marina Papaiakovou holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and an MSc in Biological Sciences from Smith College. She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge with a focus on discovery and validation of biomarkers and infection signatures to facilitate early diagnosis of helminth infections in stool & profile disease framework based on microbiome changes, for a better understanding of host-parasite interactions.
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Marina Papaiakovou
Speaker - PhDc at University of Cambridge