Project Partner, Belgium

P1 Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Parasitology, Merelbeke, Belgium
Represented by: Prof. Dr. Jozef Vercruysse (PARASOL Co-ordinator) and Prof. Dr. Pierre Dorny

Ghent University: http://www.ugent.be/
Laboratory of Parasitology: http://allserv.UGent.be/~ddmeulen/VPI.html

The Laboratory of Parasitology of Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, has a total of about 22 staff - veterinarians, biotechnologists and laboratory technicians - with expertise ranging from parasite epidemiology and immunology to helminth molecular biology. The research group has extensive experience with the epidemiology and control of gastrointestinal nematode infections in cattle and small ruminants in Belgium and the tropics and strong expertise in a broad range of biochemical and molecular techniques including anthelmintic resistance. Laboratory techniques such as ELISA, (Real-Time) PCR, polymorphism and proteomic techniques, recombinant protein production and chromatography are applied routinely.