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Dr Matthew Rogers

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Vaccine Centre

Teaching

MSc

Lecturer for 5 modules (3122, 3144, 3177, 3166, 3333).
Module Organiser for 3166: Vector Biology and Vector-Parasite Interactions (2010-present).

Module Organiser for 3122: Core Parasitology & Entomology (2022-present).

Module Organiser for 3133: Field Trip (2024-present)
Exam Board Chair for MSc Medical Parasitology and MSc Medical Entomology for Disease Control (2010-2018).

Programme Director for MSc Medical Parasitology and Entomology (2024-present).

Programme Director for MSc Medical Parasitology and (2018-2024).

Programme Director for MSc Medical Entomology for Disease Control (2018-2023).
Tutor for MSc Medical Parasitology, MSc Medical entomology for Disease Control (2010-present), MSc Control of Infectious Diseases (2018-present).
MSc project supervisor for 19 LSHTM students (2006-present, as external and internal supervisor).

 

PhD

Primary Supervisor:

Tomasz Zuber – LSHTM (2024-2028).  Thermal biology of midges as vectors of leishmaniasis.NERC OneZoo CDT.

Yassar Kadoom – LSHTM (2024-2028).  Stuck in the throat: Dissecting the role of the Leishmania biofilm in parasite development and transmission.MRC LID.

Eve Doran – LSHTM (2019-2023). . The role of human pentraxins for the Leishmania-vector interaction.MRC LID.

Oihane Martin – LSHTM (2010-2013): Leishmaniasis transmission biology: Role of promastigote secretory gel as a transmission determinant. Basque government grant.

 

Co-supervisor:

Ruben Moss-Keys –Oxford Brookes (2024-2027). Caught in the throat: Defining the role of the Leishmania biofilm in parasite development. Nigel Groome studentship. 

Rhodri Evans – LSHTM (2018-2022). Novel control strategies for Lutzomyia longiplpis sand flies through CRISPR-Cas9 genetic modification of olfaction and Wolbachia transinfection.MRC LID.

Eu Shen Seow – LSHTM (2016-2019): Role of pentraxins in immune modulation by parasite phosphorylcholine, ethanolamine and related ligands. Private funding. 

 

 

 

 

Research

Parasite-vector interactions and the biology of parasite transmission specializing in leishmaniasis.

Selected Publications

Gels and cells: the Leishmania biofilm as a space and place for parasite transmission.
ROGERS, ME; De Pablos, LM; Sunter, JD;
2024
Trends in parasitology
Comparison of collection methods for Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies to use in a molecular xenomonitoring system for the surveillance of visceral leishmaniasis.
McIntyre-Nolan, S; Kumar, V; Mark-Carew, M; Kumar, K; NIGHTINGALE, ES; Dalla Libera Marchiori, G; ROGERS, ME; KRISTAN, M; CAMPINO, S; MEDLEY, GF; Das, P; CAMERON, MM;
2023
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
C-reactive protein binds to short phosphoglycan repeats of Leishmania secreted proteophosphoglycans and activates complement.
Seow, ES; Doran, EC; Schroeder, J-H; ROGERS, ME; RAYNES, JG;
2023
Frontiers in immunology
Micro-CT visualization of a promastigote secretory gel (PSG) and parasite plug in the digestive tract of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis infected with Leishmania mexicana.
Hall, MJ R; Ghosh, D; Martín-Vega, D; Clark, B; Clatworthy, I; Cheke, RA; ROGERS, ME;
2021
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Micro-CT imaging of Onchocerca infection of Simulium damnosum s.l. blackflies and comparison of the peritrophic membrane thickness of forest and savannah flies.
Hall, MJ R; Martín-Vega, D; Clark, B; Ghosh, D; ROGERS, M; Pigoli, D; Veriegh, FB D; Tetteh-Kumah, A; Osei-Atweneboana, MY; Cheke, RA;
2021
Medical and veterinary entomology
Glycan–glycan interactions determine <i>Leishmania</i> attachment to the midgut of permissive sand fly vectors
Hall, AR; Blakeman, JT; Eissa, AM; Chapman, P; Morales-García, AL; Stennett, L; Martin, O; Giraud, E; Dockrell, DH; Cameron, NR; Wiese, M; YAKOB, L; ROGERS, ME; Geoghegan, M;
2020
CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Insights into the salivary N-glycome of Lutzomyia longipalpis, vector of visceral leishmaniasis.
Mondragon-Shem, K; Wongtrakul-Kish, K; Kozak, RP; Yan, S; Wilson, IB H; Paschinger, K; ROGERS, ME; Spencer, DI R; Acosta-Serrano, A;
2020
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
GN_19: Protocol for use of CDC light traps with FTA cards
KRISTAN, M; WALKER, T; ROGERS, M;
2020
Gnatwork
GN_20: Protocol for use of sugar bait FTA card stations
KRISTAN, M; WALKER, T; ROGERS, M;
2020
Gnatwork
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