Professor John Barrett
Contact
Email: jzb@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room F10, Edward Llwyd Building, Penglais
Phone: 01970 622315
Responsibilities
Teaching Areas
- BS31820 - Parasitology
- BS23020 - Immunology
- RSM0120 - Equine Immunology, Parasitology and Bacteriology
- BSM0520 - Social Risk and Environmental health Impact Assessment
Research
Differences in metabolism between parasites and their hosts are potential sites for chemotherapy, whilst differences between parasites and their free-living relatives gives an insight into the biochemical basis of parasitism. Research is centred around metabolic pathways, their control and how they change during the life cycle of the parasite.Staff Publications
BARRETT, J., KOSTADINOVA, A. & RAGA J.A. (2005). Mining parasite data using genetic programming. Trends in Parasitology 21, 207-209.
TIMANOVA-ATANASOVA, A., JORDANOVA, R., RADOSLAVOV, G., DEEVSKA, G., BANKOV, I. & BARRETT, J. (2004). A native 13-kDa fatty acid binding protein from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica. Biochim Biophys Acta 1674, 2000-2004.
CHEMALE, G., VAN ROSSUM, A.J., JEFFERIES, J.R., BARRETT, J., BROPHY, P.M., FERREIRA, H.B. & ZAHA, A. (2003). Proteomic analysis of the parasite Echinococcus granulosus: causative agent of cystic hydatid disease. Proteomics 3, 1633-1636.
KRIKSUNOV, I.A., SCHULLER, D.J., CAMPBELL, A.M., BARRETT, J., BROPHY, P.M. & HAO Q. (2003). Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of a new class of glutathione transferase from nematodes. Acta Crystallographica D59, 1262-1264
Van ROSSUM. A.J., BROPHY, P.M., TAIT, A., BARRETT, J. & JEFFERIES, J.R.(2001). Proteomic identification of glutathione S-transferases from the model nematode Caenorhabditis. Proteomics 1, 1463-1468