{"id":363,"date":"2012-11-09T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/alsfordlab\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:49:30","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/alsfordlab\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core Parasitology (3122) &#8211; term 1<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">&#8216;<span style=\"color: #000000\">Human African trypanosomiasis&#8217;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> &#8211; An overview of the biology of <em>Trypanosoma brucei<\/em> and the disease it causes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Advanced Training in Molecular Biology (3158) &#8211; term 2<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Deputy module organiser (since 2022\/23); sole module organiser (2013\/14-2021\/22).<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8216;Chromosome Structure &amp; 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