Lauren V Carruthers

I am a PhD research student studying interactions between schistosome parasites, the bacterial gut microbiome and anti-helminthic drug treatments at the University of Glasgow. I am in based within the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine and the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology and work alongside technicians from the Vector Control Division of the Ugandan Ministry of Health whilst on fieldwork in Uganda. I have previously researched drug resistance and cytokinesis in trypanosome parasites.