Kingsley Badu

I am looking at the transcript and the expression profiles ookinete and sporozoite staged invasion proteins (the so called glideosome) of Plasmodium falciparum (in the case of malaria) to elucidate their functional interactions in the invasion process. My goal is to identify biomarkers of infectious bites capable of assessing the human-parasite-vector interactions in order to develop sero-surveillance tools for estimating transmission intensity and transmission blocking vaccines