SUPR
Spatial Transcriptomics profile of Brugia malayi ovary tissue
Dnr:

NAISS 2024/23-368

Type:

NAISS Small Storage

Principal Investigator:

Stefania Giacomello

Affiliation:

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

Start Date:

2024-06-28

End Date:

2025-07-01

Primary Classification:

10203: Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) (applications to be 10610)

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Abstract

Brugia malayi is one species of roundworm that causes the disease Lymphatic Filariasis, a parasitic disease mainly affecting individuals in the developing world who lack access to antibiotics and live in conditions of poor hygiene. The lifecycle of B. malayi occurs partly in a mosquito host with the development of infectious larvae from microfilariae and occurs partly in a human host with the development of larvae into adult worms and the release microfilariae into the bloodstream. To understand more about the infectious worm B. malayi , the spatial gene expression pattern of the ovary tissue of the female worm will be constructed using the Spatial Transcriptomics method.