This Week in Parasitism

  • Contribute
  • Shop
  • About TWiP
  • TWiP Archive
  • Shows

This is a placeholder for your sticky navigation bar. It should not be visible.

Tag: malaria

TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut

  • February 16, 2013

Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.

TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger

  • October 16, 2012

Vincent and Dickson meet with Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee to discuss their method for site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparum using zinc finger nucleases.

TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts

  • August 23, 2012

Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes.

TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock

  • January 13, 2012

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague David Fidock.

TWiP 34: Up against the Wolbachia

  • December 13, 2011

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.

TWiP 31 – A malaria vaccine

  • October 21, 2011

Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children.

TWiP 28: Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz

  • July 26, 2011

Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID.

TWiP 11: One times three million

  • June 2, 2010

Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of malaria, with emphasis on clinical aspects of the disease.

TWiP 10: Plasmodium life cycle

  • May 19, 2010

Vincent and Dickson trace the life cycle of Plasmodium in a mosquito and in a human host.

TWiP 9: Mala aria

  • May 6, 2010

Vincent and Dickson move on to protozoan parasites with a discussion of the early history of malaria.

« 1 2 3 4

Search

Contribute

Support our work at Patreon, PayPal, and more

MicrobeTV is an independent podcast network for people who are interested in the sciences. Our shows are about science: viruses, microbes, parasites, evolution, urban agriculture, communication, and engineering.

Content on this site is licensed by MicrobeTV, LLC under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License