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PhD Oral Defense: Tubulin and Ivermectin Pharmacology in the Parasitic Nematode Haemonchus contortus

Friday, February 20, 2015 14:00
Parasitology Building P-117, 21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, CA

PhD Oral Defense of Shoaib Ashraf, Institute of Parasitology

ABSTRACT
Ivermectin (IVM) is a macrocyclic lactone (ML) endectocide. It acts on the glutamate gated chloride channels and causes paralysis and death of nematode parasites. It is used in veterinary and human health as well as in agriculture. Haemonchus contortus (H. contortus) is a very pathogenic nematode of livestock. Attempts to control it with anthelmintic pharmaceuticals, such as IVM, has rapidly led to the development of drug resistance against most of the known anthelmintics. Caenorrhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a free living nematode that can be easily grown and cultivated on culture plates. Both of these nematodes have proven excellent models to study drug resistance mechanisms. Observations that IVM selects on β-tubulin in some nematodes, including H. contortus led the candidate to study recombinant H. contortus β-and α-tubulins, and microtubules formed when these tubulins polymerize.

Everyone in the McGill community is welcome to attend a PhD oral defense. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our PhD candidates.

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