Kerri Miazowicz is a 3rd year Ph.D. trainee in Courtney Murdock's laboratory. She grew up in southern Michigan where she received a B.S. in microbiology from Michigan State University in 2012. After graduation, she spent more than two years as a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at the Rocky...
Elvis Ofori Ameyaw is a Fulbright Scholar visiting M. Belen Cassera's laboratory in the department of molecular biology and biochemistry. He is a senior lecturer, Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Vice-Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences in the College of Health...
[caption id="attachment_4511" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Super-resolution microscopy showing malaria parasites infecting human red blood cells. Image credit: Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Biomedical Microscopy Core[/caption] Vasant Muralidharan and his research team at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases are making great strides in understanding how...
Several species of Plasmodium parasites cause malaria in humans and results in nearly 450,000 deaths annually. The deadliest of these species is Plasmodium falciparum. Unfortunately, it is also drug resistance to many of the currently available treatments. Vasant Muralidharan, assistant professor in the department of...
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has a disproportionate effect in poor and underdeveloped countries without access to western medicine. According to the WHO’s World Malaria Report, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015 and an estimated 429,000 deaths. Malaria is caused by...
Manuel Fierro is a pre-doctoral trainee in Vasant Muralidharan's Laboratory. He is originally from Ecuador. His family moved to the US when he was 9 years old, and he has lived in Georgia ever since. Manuel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Cellular Biology...
Catherine Smith, a trainee in Julie Moore's lab, is a second-year recipient of our NIH-funded Training Grant....
Julie Moore and her colleagues at the University of Georgia have determined that oxidative stress plays a role in the poor pregnancy outcomes that occur during placental malaria. Furthermore, they have identified the antioxidant tempol (TPL) as a potential therapeutic treatment....
Learn more about Ph.D. candidate and Three Minute Thesis finalist Tara Bracken. ...