Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.
TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes
- November 12, 2013
- Tagged as: Beatrice Hahn, gorilla, great ape, malaria, parasite, parasitism, podcast, twip, zoonosis
Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas.
TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
- October 31, 2013
- Tagged as: bat, Gabon, hookworm, malaria, parasite, parasitism, vaccine
Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.
Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.
TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James
- March 2, 2013
- Tagged as: dengue virus, genetically modified mosquito, malaria, parasite, parasitism
Special guest Anthony A. James joins Vincent and Dickson to discuss how mosquitoes can be genetically modified to control infectious diseases.
TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut
- February 16, 2013
- Tagged as: complement, factor H, lysis, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium
Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.
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.
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
- Tagged as: artemisinin, chloroquine, drug resistance, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium
Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague David Fidock.
TWiP 34: Up against the Wolbachia
- December 13, 2011
- Tagged as: aedes aegypti, Anopheles, filaria, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, symbiosis, wolbachia
Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.
