Sex in malaria parasites – from basic biology to targets for transmission blocking interventions.

Project Information

SEXinMALARIA

Grant agreement ID: 788516

DOI

10.3030/788516

Project closed

EC signature date 2 May 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UMEA UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Genome reconstructions of metabolism of Plasmodium RBC and liver stages.

Author(s): Anush Chiappino-Pepe; Vikash Pandey; Oliver Billker
Published in: Current Opinion in Microbiology, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 259-266, ISSN 1369-5274
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.08.006

Systematic screens for fertility genes essential for malaria parasite transmission reveal conserved aspects of sex in a divergent eukaryote

Author(s): Claire Sayers, Vikash Pandey, Arjun Balakrishnan, Katharine Michie, Dennis Svedberg, Mirjam Hunziker, Mercedes Pardo, Jyoti Choudhary, Ronnie Berntsson, Oliver Billker
Published in: Cell Systems, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 1075-1091.e6, ISSN 2405-4712
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2024.10.008

Regulators of male and female sexual development are critical for the transmission of a malaria parasite

Author(s): Andrew J.C. Russell 1 13 12, Theo Sanderson 1 2 12, Ellen Bushell 1 3 4 12, Arthur M. Talman 1 5 12, Burcu Anar 1, Gareth Girling 1, Mirjam Hunziker, Robyn S. Kent 11 14, Julie S. Martin 6, Tom Metcalf 1, Ruddy Montandon 1 15, Vikash Pandey, Mercedes Pardo 7, A. Brett Roberts 6, Claire Sayers, Frank Schwach 1, Jyoti S. Choudhary 7, Julian C. Rayner 8, Thierry Voet, Katarzyna K. Modrzynska …Olive
Published in: Cell Host & Microbe, Issue 31 (2), 2023, Page(s) 305-319, ISSN 1934-6069
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.12.011

Mosquito cellular immunity at single-cell resolution

Author(s): Oliver Billker; Rafael Cantera; Sarah A. Teichmann; Ana Beatriz F. Barletta; Gianmarco Raddi; Carolina Barillas-Mury; Jose Luis Ramirez; Mirjana Efremova
Published in: Science, Issue 369, 2020, Page(s) 1128-1132, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.08.032508

Genome-Scale Identification of Essential Metabolic Processes for Targeting the Plasmodium Liver Stage

Author(s): Rebecca R. Stanway, Ellen Bushell, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Magali Roques, Theo Sanderson, Blandine Franke-Fayard, Reto Caldelari, Murielle Golomingi, Mary Nyonda, Vikash Pandey, Frank Schwach, Séverine Chevalley, Jai Ramesar, Tom Metcalf, Colin Herd, Paul-Christian Burda, Julian C. Rayner, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Chris J. Janse, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Oliver Billker, Volker T. Heussler
Published in: Cell, Issue 179/5, 2019, Page(s) 1112-1128.e26, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.10.030

Other (1)

A CRISPR homing screen finds a chloroquine resistance transporter-like protein of the<i>Plasmodium</i>oocyst essential for mosquito transmission of malaria

Author(s): Arjun Balakrishnan, Mirjam Hunziker, Puja Tiwary, Vikash Pandey, David Drew, Oliver Billker
Published in: bioRxiv, 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.02.597011