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With 4.5 billion humans infected with parasitic worms, its no surprise that half of all living creatures are parasites. While the mere mention of internal parasites may make some queasy, Dennis Minchella finds their unique lifestyles and cleverness fascinating. Minchella, a professor of biological sciences and associate dean of the College of Science, became interested in parasites while taking an invertebrate zoology course as an undergraduate student. He enjoyed learning about parasites mechanisms for survival and how they can transmit themselves to different hosts. Coevolution between hosts and parasites is one of the main areas Minchella studies. As hosts develop defense mechanisms against parasitic infection, the parasites find intelligent ways of adapting against the hosts defenses, entering what is known as a coevolutionary arms race. Within a coevolutionary arms race, hosts are coming up with ways to thwart their parasites and then their parasites are getting over those obstacles, said Alyssa Gleichsner, a Ph.D. candidate in biology and assistant in Minchellas lab. Minchella works mainly with schistosomes, parasites which penetrate humans skin after their larvae complete a stage of their life cycle in snails. Within his lab in Lilly Hall, Minchella replicates the schistosomes entire life cycle ... minus the … Continue reading →