NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary/Abstract Plasmodium falciparum is the major global cause of malaria morbidity and mortality and is especially devastating in pregnant women and children in sub–Saharan Africa. Anopheline mosquitoes are essential for the spread of new infections, requiring ingestion of mature sexual stages from an infected person and then a second blood meal once infectious sporozoites are in the mosquito salivary glands. Development of sexual stages in an infected person’s blood cells requires a complex ~14-day development phase. Even with a lot of recent progress, many processes essential for sexual stage development remain poorly understood. Our group has developed a functional genomics…
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