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The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

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Vasant Muralidharan
Vasant Muralidharan is an associate professor in the Department of Cellular Biology. (Photo by Lauren Corcino)

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Recent Publications

Mono-allelic epigenetic regulation of polycistronic transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in Trypanosoma bruceii >>Abstract>>

A new chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of Cryptosporidium meleagridis >>Abstract>>

Generation of the IF1Ty, IF1KO, and IF1Over strains.

The Toxoplasma gondii homolog of ATPase inhibitory factor 1 is critical for mitochondrial cristae maintenance and stress response >>Abstract>>

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Plasmodium falciparum cannot invade human red blood cells when essential protein RON11 is knocked out. The arrowhead points to the parasite. The larger cells are human red blood cells.

Anaguano D, Adewale-Fasoro O, Vick GW, Yanik S, Blauwkamp J, Fierro MA, et al. (2024) Plasmodium RON11 triggers biogenesis of the merozoite rhoptry pair and is essential for erythrocyte invasion. PLoS Biol 22(9): e3002801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002801