2023
OCTOBER
Sheena Dass receives the Honorable Mention Talk Award at MPM 2023
AUGUST
Adrian Mehrtash receives the 2024 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
MAY
Frank Addae and Samrawit Alemu join the lab as PhD students!
APRIL
Merryn Fraser joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!
Ruth Lappalainen joins the lab as a visiting graduate student!
MARCH
Usheer, Sheena, and Manish return from collaborative work at Goa Medical College. Welcome back!
2022
APRIL
Lucas Buyon and Caroline Keroack defend their dissertations. Congrats, Drs!
Sheena Dass and Lucas Buyon present at the 8th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPvR 2022)
MARCH
Caroline Keroack’s work on Babesia is available on BioRxiv
FEBRUARY
Patrice Groomes and Usheer Kanjee’s review on P. falciparum invasion is published in Trends in Parasitology
The lab says farewell to Bénédicte Gnangnon
2021
DECEMBER
The lab says farewell to Estela Shabani!
Cyrianne Ketucha and Rebecca Lee collaborate on work published in Communications Biology
NOVEMBER
Manoj Duraisingh receives ACMCIP’s William Trager Award for Basic Parasitology
OCTOBER
Usheer Kanjee presents a talk and Caroline Keroack, Brendan Elsworth and Kristen Skillman present posters at the Molecular Parasitology Meeting
SEPTEMBER
Bénédicte Gnangnon receives the Runze Huang Community Award
The lab says farewell to Rebecca Lee
AUGUST
Lucas Buyon and Brendan Elsworth publish a review on P. vivax drug resistance in International Journal for Parasitology
JUNE
The lab says goodbye to Arianna Bonilla as she leaves for a position in a start up!
Bénédicte Gnangnon publishes a review in Trends in Parasitology
MARCH
Martha Clark publishes her work on reticulocyte stability in Nature Communications
2020
DECEMBER
Brendan Elsworth publishes a review in Molecular Microbiology
Martha Clark leaves the lab to begin work at a start up company
NOVEMBER
Jacob Tennessen publishes his work in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Manish Kumar and Kristen Skillman publish a review in Molecular Micobiology
Usheer Kanjee presents a virtual talk at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting
OCTOBER
Sheena Dass and Mahmoud Mikdar join the lab as postdoctoral fellows!
SEPTEMBER
Brendan Elsworth presents a talk and Martha Clark, Usheer Kanjee and Aditya Paul present posters at the virtual Molecular Parasitology Meeting
Usheer Kanjee’s work is published in the Journal of Infectious Disease
JULY
Aditya Paul’s paper on PP-1 and egress is published in Nature Communications
JUNE
Marc-Jan Gubbels’ sabbatical work from the lab on Babesia cell division is published
Lab reopens and lab members begin working in shifts
MAY
Manoj presents virtually at the BioMalPar Meeting
Lab retreat takes place on Zoom!
APRIL
Collaborative paper with the Buckee lab is published in PLoS Computational Biology
MARCH
Gabe Rangel’s work is published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
FEBRUARY
Manoj presents at the Molecular Approaches to Malaria conference
Research Assistant Samantha Sack leaves for Peru to teach as a Fulbright scholar
JANUARY
Aditya Paul submits his work to bioRxiv
2019
DECEMBER
Manoj hosts the annual lab white elephant gift exchange
NOVEMBER
Caroline Keroack gives a talk at the ASTMH meeting in Baltimore, MD
OCTOBER
Caroline Keroack is awarded a best talk prize from the Molecular Parasitology Meeting!
SEPTEMBER
Gabe Rangel leaves lab for postdoc in the Llinás lab at Penn State
Caroline Keroack and Brendan Elsworth present their projects at the Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Woods Hole
AUGUST
Thank you to our summer interns!
Anosha leaves the lab to head to Bangalore
JULY
Natasha Archer publishes her work in Blood Advances
Estela Shabani and Martha Clark present posters at the Red Cells Gordon Research Conference
Aditya Paul presents his work at the FASEB Microbial Pathogenesis meeting
JUNE
Manoj, Martha Clark, Usheer Kanjee and Gabe Rangel present at the International conference for Plasmodium vivax research in Paris
MAY
Erik Scully’s work on EJ cells is published in the American Journal of Hematology
Samantha Sack joins the lab as a research assistant
Kristen Skillman welcomes baby Sylvia!
APRIL
Caroline Keroack and Brendan Elsworth speak at the International Babesiosis Meeting
Gabe Rangel defends his dissertation!
MARCH
Martha Clark welcomes baby Robin!
Cyrianne Keutcha joins the lab as a PhD student
FEBRUARY
Patrice Groomes joins the lab as a PhD student
Manoj speaks on malaria cell-cycle regulation at CDRI, Lucknow and IIT-Bombay, Mumbai
JANUARY
Usheer Kanjee contributes to Nature paper on RH5 cryo-em structure
2018
DECEMBER
Elizabeth Egan’s ABCB6 paper was published in Communications Biology
Usheer Kanjee published a review in Current Opinion in Microbiology
Manoj is Keynote Speaker at SCEP symposium
NOVEMBER
Rebecca Lee and Caroline Keroack receive grants from the American Heart Association
Caroline Keroack presents a talk at the New England Association of Parasitologists annual meeting
OCTOBER
Estela Shabani presents a talk at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting
Usheer Kanjee presents a talk at the Boston Area Parasitology Symposium
SEPTEMBER
Aditya Paul and Gabe Rangel present at the Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Woods Hole
Novalia Pishesha joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow
AUGUST
Manish Kumar joins the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow
Jacob Tennessen joins the lab as a research associate
Prof. Marc-Jan Gubbel begins a sabbatical in the lab
JULY
Natasha Archer’s data is published in PNAS
Camila Tenorio Franca joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow
JUNE
Arianna Bonilla joins the lab as a research assistant
Prof. Eun-Taek Han visits the lab from Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Korea
MAY
MARCH
Gabe Rangel awarded an NIH supplement
FEBRUARY
Gabe Rangel’s paper is published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Anosha Meyers arrives as a visiting undergraduate from the Netherlands
JANUARY
Brendan Elsworth awarded NHMRC CJ Martin Early Career Fellowship
Usheer Kanjee’s data is published in Science
2017
DECEMBER
Usheer Kanjee awarded ASTMH Centennial Travel Award
Estela Shabani awarded HSPH PDA Travel Award
NOVEMBER
Rebecca Lee joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow