Category: News from the group

Summer BBQ

We had a great time at another lab BBQ at David’s house! It was also a chance to say goodbye to our amazing summer intern, Anushka, who’s been working with Franck over the past two months. Wishing her all the best in her next chapter!

Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting 2025

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.

ASTMH 2024

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”.

Fall lab BBQ

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.

Molecular Parasitology Meeting 2024

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.

Spring time is conference time!

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”.

World Malaria Day 2024

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!