Image: Dr. Chris West, head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a researcher in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, belongs to a small group of internationally recognized parasite glycobiologists. His rigorous, transformative research explores cellular processes involving various structures, enzymes and roles of glycans, or sugar chains. His research with collaborators at UGA and internationally has opened a new field of oxygen-sensing in protists, exploring how this environmental factor can control the behavior and virulence of pathogenic parasites.
