Kristian E. Swearingen

This study identifies PfMD3 as an RNA-binding protein that regulates male gamete fertility by impacting translation in Plasmodium falciparum.

This study shows that glycosylation of PfTRAP's TSR domain is essential for sporozoite motility and invasion, as glyco-null mutants exhibit severe fitness defects.

This study confirms that the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) of Plasmodium sporozoites is GPI-anchored using metabolic labeling and mass spectrometry.

This study identifies the global release of translational repression in Plasmodium parasites during host-to-vector transmission using transcriptomics and proteomics.

This paper introduces a method to generate high-quality DIA-MS libraries using peptide predictions and empirical refinement, demonstrating its effectiveness in non-model organisms and non-canonical databases.

This study characterizes the transcriptome and histone epigenome of Plasmodium vivax sporozoites, revealing transcriptional and post-transcriptional control mechanisms and potential pathways for hypnozoite formation.