Dr Simon Babayan
Location: Room 311A, Ashworth Laboratories
Phone: 0131 651 3626
Email: s.babayan@ed.ac.uk
Website: http://zeldia.cap.ed.ac.uk/allenlab/people/babayan.htm
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- 2005-current: Marie-Curie Fellow in the Allen Lab, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (3IR), University of Edinburgh: “Cues for parasitic nematode development: immunology meets evolutionary biology”
- 2004/2005: Post doctoral position in the Allen Lab, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (3IR), University of Edinburgh: “Host resistance and Vaccine design against filariasis”.
- 2001/2004: PhD supported by the European Union, “VARBO” INCO-DEV contract, at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. October 2004.
- 2000/2001: DEA (prerequisite to doing a PhD in France) Integrated Biology of Invertebrates, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
- 1999/2000: Maîtrise (MSc.) Biology of Populations and Ecosystems, speciality Animal Biology at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
- 1998/1999: Licence (BSc.) Biology of Organisms and Populations, Bordeaux, France.
Publications
- Martin C., Saeftel M., Vuong P.N., Babayan S., Fischer K., Bain O., Achim H.
- B cell deficiency suppresses vaccine-induced protection in murine filariasis but does not increase the recovery rate in primary infection. Infect Immun. 2001 Nov;69(11):7067-73.
- Bain O., Babayan S., Gomes J., Rojas G., Guerrero R.
- First account on the larval biology of a Litomosoides filaria, from a bat. Parassitologia 44: 89-92, 2002.
- Bain O., Guerrero R., Rodriguez-Ortiz B., Babayan S., Jouvenet N.
- Examination of type material of Litomosoides spp. (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae), parasites from bats; taxonomic consequences. 2003 Sep;10(3):211-8.
- Bain, O., and Babayan S.
- Behaviour of filariae: morphological and anatomical signatures of their life style within the arthropod and vertebrate hosts. 2003 Dec 15;2(1):16
- Babayan S., Ungeheuer M-N., Martin C, Attout T., Belnoue E., Rénia L., Korenaga M. and Bain O.
- Resistance and susceptibility to filarial infection with Litomosoides sigmodontis are associated with early differences in parasite development and in localized immune reactions. Infect Immun. 2003 Dec;71(12):6820-9.
- Babayan S., Attout T., Specht S., Hoerauf A., Rénia L., Korenaga M., Bain O. and Martin C.
- Increased early local immune responses and altered worm development in high dose infections of mice susceptible to the filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis. Med Microbiol Immunol (Berl). 2005 May;194(3):151-162.
- Attout T., Babayan S., Hoerauf A., Taylor D.W., Kozek W.J., Martin C. and Bain O.
- Blood-feeding in the young adult filarial worms Litomosoides sigmodontis. Parasitology. 2005 Apr;130(Pt 4):421-8.
- Babayan S., Attout T., Vuong P.N,. Le Goff L., Gantier J.C. and Bain O.
- The subcutaneous movements of filarial infective larvae are impaired in vaccinated hosts in comparison to primary infected hosts. In press, Filaria J.
- Babayan, S. , T Attout, A Harris, MD Taylor, L LeGoff, PN Voung, L Renia, JE Allen, O Bain.
- Vaccination against filarial nematodes with irradiated larvae provides long-term protection against the third larval stage but not against subsequent life cycle stages. 2006 Int. J Parasitol. 36(8):903-14
- Taylor, MD, A Harris, S Babayan, O Bain, JE Allen & RM Maizels
- CTLA-4 and CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells synergize to inhibit protective immunity to filarial parasites in vivo. 2007. Journal of Immunology. 179: 4626-3
- Houston, KM, SA Babayan, JE Allen, W Harnett.
- Does Litomosoides synthesise dimethylethanoloamine from choline? 2008. Parasitology. 135:55-61.