Sharing the Knowledge: NIH Award Supports Expanded Genomics Data Resource
By: Alan Flurry A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of researchers around the world with access to the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database (EuPathDB.org), a collection of resources for analyzing large-scale datasets associated with microbial pathogens. These include the parasites responsible for malaria, sleeping sickness, and …
David Peterson to present at Athens Science Cafe
Learn more about malaria and current efforts to eliminate this disease from CTEGD faculty member David Peterson. The Athens Science Cafes, sponsored by the Athens Science Alliance, meets at Little Kings Shuffle Club on W. Hancock Ave. The talk will start at 7 pm on Thursday, September 26. Read more in the Athens Science Observer.
Clinically silent relapsing malaria may still pose a threat
The immune system can control a relapsing form of malaria enough to avoid clinical signs of disease, but it doesn’t eliminate transmissible parasites from the body that may still be infectious to mosquitoes. That’s the conclusion of a study on a nonhuman primate model of Plasmodium vivax infection, which has implications relevant to malaria elimination strategies. Keep …
Visiting Scholar Fellow: Fernando Sanchez-Valdéz
Dr. Fernando Sanchez-Valdéz, from Salta, Argentina, completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2014. After his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Rick Tarleton´s laboratory at University of Georgia. In 2018, he obtained a Research Scientist position in the …
What’s Bugging MICHAEL STRAND?
by Leigh Beeson When warm weather approaches, so do pesky little bloodsucking pests. The unassuming mosquito may be smaller than a dime, but it packs a serious punch, killing more people each year than any other animal. And with average temperatures climbing around the globe, different mosquito species are making their way farther north than ever …
Invited Speaker Spotlight: Marc-Jan Gubbels
About the Speaker Marc-Jan Gubbels received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, on diagnostics and vaccines for tick-transmitted Theileria and Babesia parasites of cattle. He then came to the CTEDG for a post-doc with Dr. Boris Striepen on Toxoplasma gondii. In 2005, he transitioned into an independent faculty position at Boston College …