Project Title : "Development of new CRISPR-Cas9 tools to study malaria parasite virulence mechanisms"

Project PI : Jose Juan LOPEZ-RUBIO  Co-PI : Artur SCHERF

Lab : MIVEGEC UMR 5290-CNRS, IRD 224, Université Montpellier

BACKGROUND

• PhD in Biological Science in Billker Lab ⎪ University of Cambridge, UK
• MSc Applied Microbiology ⎪ University of Lisbon, Portugal
• BSc in Microbiology ⎪ University of Lisbon, Portugal

POSITION AFTER PARAFRAP TRAINING

CNRS Researcher (Chargé de Recherche) at Laboratory of Pathogen Host Interactions - University of Montpellier, France- Permanent Position since 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Gazanion, E., Lacroix, L., Alberti, P., Gurung, P., Wein, S., Cheng, M., Mergny, J.-L., Gomes, A.R., Lopez-Rubio, J.-J., (2020). Genome wide distribution of G-quadruplexes and their impact on gene expression in malaria parasites. PLOS Genet [5.4] 16, e1008917. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008917

Gurung, P., Gomes, A.R., Martins, R.M., Juranek, S.A., Alberti, P., Mbang‐Benet, D.-E., Urbach, S., Gazanion, E., Guitard, V., Paeschke, K., Lopez‐Rubio, J.-J., (2020). PfGBP2 is a novel G-quadruplex binding protein in Plasmodium falciparum. Cell Microbiol [4.4], e13303. doi: 10.1111/cmi.13303