Assistant Professor, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Genetics, University of Georgia
Project Title: Tapeworm Stem Cells as Drivers of Regeneration and Reproduction
Award Year: 2021
Biography
Tania Rozario got her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia studying embryonic development. During her postdoc she joined Phil Newmark's lab (Morgridge Institute for Research) to study planarian regeneration but pivoted toward their parasitic cousins- tapeworms. Her work (re)established the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, as a non-traditional model to explore the molecular mechanisms that govern how tapeworms grow, regenerate, and reproduce at prolific rates.