Jacob is a research scientist in the Duraisingh and Neafsey labs. His background is in computational evolutionary genetics across numerous species including snails, strawberries, frogs, and humans. At HSPH he has joined the malaria research community, examining genomics of human hosts, parasites, and mosquito vectors.
Annie Laws is the project manager for a Gates-funded project to develop molecular surveillance systems for malaria parasites and mosquitoes in Guyana and Colombia.
Paulo will optimize a multiplexed amplicon sequencing protocol for Plasmodium vivax and apply it to thousands of samples from South America to understand local malari atransmission and epidemiology for his thesis project.
Philipp is interested in novel methods of genomic data generation and interpretation to understand P. falciparum and P. vivax biology and biogeography. He completed his PhD in 2020 with Dr. Martin Llewellyn at the University of Glasgow, studying the evolutionary genomics of Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania infantum parasites in South America.
In the Neafsey Lab, Jorge will expand his work on malaria, developing pipelines to analyze both vector and parasite data from South America.
Angela uses computational genetic approaches to understand how fitness tradeoffs and disease interventions shape the short-term evolutionary dynamics of Plasmodium and mosquitoes.
Katrina helps the lab process thousands of malaria parasite and mosquito samples for DNA sequencing.
Cheyenne helps the lab process thousands of parasite and mosquito samples for sequencing, and is developing assays to efficiently genotype new mutations under selection in parasite genomes by piperaquine drug treatment in South America.
