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Principal Investigator Kasturi Haldar k-haldar@northwestern.edu   Graduate Students Yaw Bediako yaw@northwestern.edu The role played by large antigenic protein families in plasmodial growth and development within the infected erythrocyte.   Sebastian Fernandez-Pol spol008@md.northwestern.edu The role of host erythrocyte signaling in merozoite invasion.   Noe Gomez ndgomez@northwestern.edu Parasite factors involved in the onset of severe malaria.   Julia MacKenzie j-jackson@northwestern.edu The interaction between secreted malarial proteins and the host immune system.   Parwez Nawabi p-nawabi@northwestern.edu Regulation of cholesterol sensing genes during intracellular development of malaria parasites.   Everett Roark e-roark@northwestern.edu Regulation of membrane trafficking in the Salmonella containing vacuole.     Research Associates Souvik Bhattacharjee souvik@northwestern.edu Mechanisms and pathways of protein trafficking from the malaria parasite to the red cell.   Laurie Jackson laurie-jackson@northwestern.edu Interactions between Salmonella effectors and host proteins involved in membrane trafficking.   Andy Osborne a-osborne@northwestern.edu Protein export from the malaria parasite.   Pamela Tamez p-tamez@northwestern.edu Microarrays and sphingolipid biology; bioinformatics.   Christiaan van Ooij o-van2@northwestern.edu Regulated gene expression and mechanisms of parasite entry.             Clinical Fellows Ryan Carroll RCarroll1@childrensmemorial.org The pathogenesis of cerebral malaria, utilizing a murine model, as well as tissue from the largest post-mortem human study from the Blantyre Malaria Project, in Blantyre, Malawi, Africa.                     Research Assistants Cristiana Hentea cristianah@gmail.com Research technician, part of the Salmonella team; currently working on crystallizing a Salmonella effector protein.                     Undergraduate Assistants Trilokesh Kidambi t-kidambi@northwestern.edu Developing a consistent, quantitative murine model of cerebral malaria that focuses on neurological and behavioral function.   Ashima Singal a-singal-1@northwestern.edu Construction of transfection vectors of Plasmodium falciparum containing the promoter regions of pfe0055c and pfe0065w (skeletal binding protein).

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