Huân at Deming Pond, Lake Itasca State Park, Minnesota

As an undergraduate, Huân studied and published three papers describing the diversity of critters (desmid, diatom, dinoflagellate, chrysophyte) living in floating bog mats.

Dr. Ngô with middle school students in his Science Lab

Dr. Ngô shows his middle school students experimental techniques in his Science Lab. Photo is from Dr. Ngo’s Students Say ‘Yes’ to Science (Hartford Courant, October 4, 2003, page A1). See 'Teacher' page.

Simple life cycle of the brain parasite Toxoplasma

Toxoplasma is a common parasite of human and every warm-blooded animal. The brain parasite infects one in three humans on Earth. See 'Brain Parasite Toxoplasma’ page.

Possible links between Toxoplasma and brain cancer, epilepsy, Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases

Toxoplasma modulates brain gene networks associated with brain diseases. This figure summarizes novel links reported in Scientific Reports by Huân and collaborators. Toxoplasma Modulates Signature Pathways of Human Epilepsy, Neurodegeneration and Cancer. See ‘BrainMicro LLC’ page.

A strategy to design drugs against the brain parasite Toxoplasma.

We determined the crystallographic structures of twelve Toxoplasma enzymes that are candidate drug targets. The enzymes function in metabolic pathways vital for parasite survival—we kill the enzymes, we kill Toxoplasma. See ‘Drug Discovery’ page.

Our only home is rapidly breaching the safe planetary boundaries

See ‘Climate Change: My Journey’ page. Original color photo is from Google.com.