Nastaran Rezakhani

The paper investigates the fitness consequences of selfing and outcrossing in malaria parasites using fluorescent-labelled clones and finds an outcrossing advantage linked to faster sporozoite maturation and increased recombination.

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.

The paper isolates a human monoclonal antibody that targets Plasmodium vivax AMA1, blocking both pre-erythrocytic and blood stage infections.