DNA dynamics in the unusual cell cycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Project Information

PlasmoCycle

Grant agreement ID: 725126

DOI 10.3030/725126

Project closed

EC signature date 20 March 2017

Start date 1 June 2017

End date 30 November 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 998 696,00

EU contribution € 1 998 696,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Editorial: Celebrating Microbial Diversity: The Many Cell Cycles of Eukaryotic Microbes

Author(s): Merrick, C.J., Absalon, S, Brochet, M, Li, Z, Suvorova, E.S.
Published in: Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 2021, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.738994

Effects of the G-quadruplex-binding drugs quarfloxin and CX-5461 on the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Author(s): Craven, H.M., Nettesheim, G., Cicuta, P., Blagborough, A.M., Merrick, C.J.
Published in: Int. J. Parasitol: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2023, ISSN 2211-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2023.11.007

DNA replication dynamics during erythrocytic schizogony in the malaria parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium knowlesi.

Author(s): McDonald, Jennifer; Merrick, Catherine
Published in: Plos Pathogens, Issue 18(6):, 2022, Page(s) e1010595, ISSN 1553-7366
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010595

Dynamics of DNA replication during male gametogenesis in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Author(s): Matthews, H.; McDonald, J.; Totanes, F.I.G.; Merrick, C.J.
Published in: Cellular Microbiology, 2022, ISSN 1462-5814
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1155/2022/2701868

Checks and balances? DNA replication and the cell cycle in Plasmodium

Author(s): Holly Matthews, Craig W. Duffy, Catherine J. Merrick
Published in: Parasites & Vectors, Issue 11/1, 2018, ISSN 1756-3305
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-2800-1

A genome-wide map of DNA replication at single-molecule resolution in the malaria parasite <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i>

Author(s): Francis Isidore Garcia Totañes; Jonas Gockel; Sarah E Chapman; Richárd Bártfai; Michael A Boemo; Catherine J Merrick
Published in: Nucleic Acids Research, 51, 2709 - 2724, 2023, ISSN 1362-4962
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad093

Hypnozoites in Plasmodium: Do Parasites Parallel Plants?

Author(s): Catherine J. Merrick
Published in: Trends in parasitology, Issue 37(4), 2021, Page(s) 273-282, ISSN 1471-4922
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.17863/cam.60287