Member: May 2015 - February 2020

Research interest
Giardia nutrient depletion, Parasite-host interaction, Intestinal niche for infections

Title of PhD project
Metabolic stress responses and growth of intestinal parasites Eimeria falciformis and Giardia duodenalis

Supervisors
Dr. Anton Aebischer, Prof. Dr. Emanuel Heitlinger and Prof. Dr. Richard Lucius

Ehret T, Torelli F, Klotz C, Pedersen AB, Seeber F. (2017).
Translational Rodent Models for Research on Parasitic Protozoa - A Review of Confounders and Possibilities.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol 7:238. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00238.

Ehret T, Spork S, Dieterich C, Lucius R, Heitlinger E. (2017).
Dual RNA-seq reveals no plastic transcriptional response of the coccidian parasite Eimeria falciformis to host immune defenses.
BMC Genomics 18:686. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4095-6.