James Wasmuth

PhD

Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary

Location

Calgary, Alberta

Keywords

Nematodes, Toxoplasma, genomics, bioinformatics

Research interests

My work focuses on using genome sequences to better understand the evolution of parasitism. My current foci are: 1) the evolution of large gene families, in particular surface antigens, and 2) using population genomics to understand species diversity. My background includes working with both helminths and apicomplexans (e.g. Toxoplasma & Plasmodium).

Expertise in

Genomics

Toxoplasmosis

Veterinary

Relevant publications

Elsworth B, Wasmuth J & Blaxter M. 2011. NEMBASE4: the nematode transcriptome resource. Int J Parasitol in press.

Hung S, Wasmuth J, Sanford C & Parkinson J. 2010. DETECT - A Density Estimation Tool for Enzyme ClassificaTion and its application to Plasmodium falciparum. Bioinformatics, 26:1690-1698.

Wasmuth J, Daub J, Peregrín-Alvarez J-M, Finney C & Parkinson J. 2009. The origins of apicomplexan sequence innovation. Genome Research, 19(7):1202-13.

Wasmuth J, Schmid R, Hedley A & Blaxter M. 2008. On the extent and origins of genic novelty in the Phylum Nematoda. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease, 2(7): e258

Contact

Room HSC 2513

3330 Hospital Drive

Calgary, AB T2N 4N1

jwasmuth@ucalgary.ca