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Janne recently attended the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting, hosted by the German Society for Parasitology (DGP), the British Society for Parasitology (BSP), and the Swiss Society for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (SSTMP), held in Würzburg, Germany. There, she presented her research on the role of long non-coding RNAs in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytogenesis.
David, Kieran and Rosita attended the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans in November 2024. Kieran presented a talk with David as one of the sessions chairs on the topic “A subset of Cambodian Plasmodium vivax parasites treated with artesunate display slow clearance and a delayed and unique gene expression response”. Rosita presented her research during the poster session on the topic “Comprehensive characterization of Plasmodium vivax antigens using a high-density peptide array”.
At the beginning of November, the lab enjoyed a delicious and sunny barbecue at David’s home. He made pizza on the grill for everyone. We also said goodbye to Dynang, a visiting PhD student from Pasteur in Cambodia. We had a great time with her over the last couple of weeks. Dynang and part of the Serre lab are now off to ASTMH next week.
Rosita (left) and Katie (right) traveled to the UK to attend the Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria Conference 2024 (GEM) near Cambridge. Both presented their research in the poster session and gave a short teaser talk.
Janne, Franck and David attended the Molecular Parasitology meeting (MPM) in beautiful Woods Hole in September. It was a full week of great talks, poster sessions, keynote speeches, the hatting ceremony and networking opportunities. The mixer on Wednesday evening at Captian Kidd was unforgettable and lots of fun. Janne had the opportunity to present her project in a talk. Franck presented a poster and gave a short teaser talk. He won an honorable mention poster award. Congratulations! Thanks to the organizers of the last three years of MPM and we are looking forward to the new organizers next year.
Kieran went to the Woods Hole Immuniparasitology meeting (WHIP) happening from April 21 – 24, 2024 and presented her research in a talk with the title “Age and parasitemia explain most of the variation in host and parasite gene expression among Malian children infected with P. falciparum“.
Brittany attended the Biology of Genomes conference in Cold Spring Harbor this year from May 7 – 11 and presented a poster on “Examining the effect of Plasmodium vivax coinfections on sexual differentiation using single cell RNA sequencing in a primate model”.
Janne went to Germany to attend the BioMalPar XX: biology and pathology of the malaria parasite, happening from May 21 – 23, 2024 at EMBL in Heidelberg. She presented a poster on “Examining the role of ribosomal RNAs in regulating translational repression in P. falciparum gametocytes”.
For World Malaria Day in 2024, the Serre lab attended the symposium at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Kieran, Brittany, Janne, and Rosita presented their research in the poster session. We had a great day with amazing talks, science discussions and networking with other malaria colleagues. See you next year!
Kieran defended her Ph.D. with the title “Characterization of Host-Pathogen Interactions during Symptomatic P. falciparum Malaria in Malian Children” in early March. The Serre lab celebrated with Kieran’s Family and Friends at David’s house.
Congratulations!
The Serre lab attended the 9th Future of Malaria Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on October 13th. The event was organized by Postdocs and PhD students from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health’s Malaria Research Program. Kieran gave a talk to present her research from her Cambodian studies, and Rosita presented a poster to provide some insights into her peptide array analysis of P. vivax.
