Professor Mark Carrington
Visiting Research Fellow
Background
Mark Carrington is an Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He studied Botany and Plant Molecular Biology at University and then switched to working on trypanosomes at the MRC Unit of molecular Parasitology. After an EMBO Fellowship in Germany he started his laboratory in Cambridge and over the last 35 years has made many discoveries about the basic biology of trypanosomes and their interactions with mammalian hosts.
Research
He has a current interest in two unique features of trypanosome biology: how the cell surface architecture negates the host immune response and the almost total dependence on post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression with the goal of understanding the molecular mechanism of how codon use determines mRNA stability.
