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Infection biology MSc student Inish graduates. She worked with Lah to understand how specifc genetic polymorphisms in P. falciparum influence transmission using CRISPR-cas9. Congratuations, Inish!

The 2021 masters students, Megan and Matteo, both started their PhDs in infectious disease at Cambridge and Edinburgh, respectively, in October. A big congratulations to both!

Mimi gave an excellent 1st year talk in the SBOHVM PGR seminar series in May. Lots of exciting science to come!

Ginny’s T. brucei single-cell paper came out in PLoS Pathogens https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010346. This was a great collaboration with Wendy Gibson’s group at Bristol! She also presented this work in the single cell symposium, organised by Thomas Otto and Matt Marti, at the ICOPA meeting in Copenhagen in August (see picture).

Masters students, Megan and Matteo, complete their programmes. Both will graduate with distinction. Congratulations, Megan and Matteo!

Ginny’s T. brucei single-cell paper is up on Biorxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.13.463681v2. This was a great collaboration with Wendy Gibson’s group at Bristol! Highlights include visits to Langford, watching tryps swim, and tying patterns of gene expression to specific morphological forms.

Lauren Ashcroft, Undergrad honours student, joined the group this past autumn. She has completed a great project on Anopheles species differences in immune response to Plasmodium.

Mimi Cox, PhD student, joined the group this past autumn. Welcome Mimi!

Our work profiling Plasmodium falicparum throughout transmission in the mosquito was published in Nautre Comms. This was a result of a great collaboration with the Sanger Institute and Imperial. Please check it out here: https://www.

Lizzie (PhD student in integrated infection biology) and Megan (MSc student in infection biology) have joined the group. Lizzie is co-supervised with Matt Marti and interested in genetic determinants of transmission.