Madeline is a graduate student co-mentored by Dyann Wirth and Jeffrey Dvorin. Her work focuses on the discovery of compounds targeting the unique cellular division machinery of Plasmodium falciparum. Through localization studies, Madeline is also characterizing the function of PfCoronin, a protein implicated in reduced artemisinin susceptibility.
Malhar (he/him) is a grad student co-mentored between the labs of Professors Dyann Wirth and Flaminia Catteruccia. He is interested in the transmission biology of drug resistant malaria parasite P. falciparum through the mosquito and liver stages of its life-cycle, as well as studying the fundamental biology of the sporozoite and early liver-stages of the parasite. Malhar enjoys sketching, cooking, and looking at birds and mushrooms.
Morgan is a graduate student in the Wirth lab, currently pursuing her PhD in the Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH) program. She is interested in 1) understanding the risk of Pfkelch13 and Pfcoronin variants conferring artemisinin (ART) resistance in a Senegalese genetic background and 2) further elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying observed ART resistance.
Alli is interested in identifying and characterizing Plasmodium targets during mosquito stage development that are particularly vulnerable to transmission blocking strategies.