Mirko Zimic

This study uses bulk RNA sequencing in a porcine model of neurocysticercosis to identify transcriptional signatures associated with viable parasite persistence and post-treatment lesion disruption.

This paper develops tiled amplicon sequencing panels for whole-genome sequencing of pathogenic bacteria without culturing, enabling drug resistance classification from clinical samples.

The paper assembles and analyzes mitochondrial genomes of Taenia solium from Latin America, identifying SNPs and phylogeographic patterns that suggest metabolic differences and historical spread of the parasite.

The paper silences efflux pump genes in Mycobacterium smegmatis and finds that silencing MSMEG_0250 reduces POA efflux rate by 5-fold.