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And I’m back!! Armed with more expertise, I’ll be tackling the wet lab a little more aggressively this time — and for good reason — the parasites are ready to invade Toronto! More precisely, my currently computational lab (with the exception of a single relatively unused lab bench) is soon to be transformed into a Toxoplasma-friendly environment. [...]
To complete the more exciting half of my PhD thesis, I will need to experimentally validate my predicted drug targets! For this, I have been working in collaboration with Toxoplasma geneticist, Dr. Michael Grigg, to examine the activity of my enzyme candidates in these parasites. I’ve just returned from a 6-week stint at the NIH [...]
Having just returned from the annual MPM in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, I am now re-invigorated about my research. The 4 day international conference was attended by 350+ attendees, with 60 talks and 200+ posters. Parasites of interest varied from Plasmodium falciparum, the etiological agent of malaria to Trypanosome brucei, which causes sleeping sickness. My poster reviewing [...]