Malaria Centre Newsletter, March 2018
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1. Anniversary Feature
Developing our understanding of malaria parasite biology and host biology
As part of the Malaria Centre’s monthly anniversary feature, this issue focusses on how research from members of the Centre have contributed to developing our understanding of malaria parasite biology and host biology. By presenting specific examples we show how the research contributes to, and underpins, our understanding of malaria control.
Parasite Biology
Malaria Centre research teams have focused on numerous exciting aspects of malaria parasite biology over the last 20 years. Many of the breakthroughs have been made possible by huge technical advances such as our ability to perform whole genome sequencing and reverse genetics...
Host Biology
In parallel to the advances made in malaria parasite biology, landmark studies spearheaded by members of the LSHTM Malaria Centre have also contributed to a better understanding of the host immune response to malaria infection, as well as mechanisms underlying the development of severe disease...
Read more.
To stay in touch and see what we have coming up for our anniversary you can:
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The Malaria Centre helps to organise, support and advertise seminars and activities that would be of interest our members.
Seminars
Malaria Centre retreat
The annual Malaria Centre retreat will be 10-11 April. The retreat this year will be held at Clare College in Cambridge.
Don't forget to register!
If you have an event at the School that you would like to share with your fellow Malaria Centre members, please let us know!
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3. News
Successul showcase
Thank you to everyone who presented at our first PhD showcase event on 13 February, and thank you to everyone who came along too!
This event would not have been possible without the efforts of the PhD student representatives Ryan Henrici and Stephanie Nofal. The Malaria Centre Steering Committee would like to express its thanks to Ryan and Stephanie for their hard work and planning to ensure the showcase was a success. It was a great way to start our anniversary celebrations and is something we are keen to continue in the future.
£4.1m grant to continue world-leading research into health problems in low and middle-income countries
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been awarded more than £4m by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for continued research into the health problems of low and middle-income countries (LMICs), which include emerging infectious diseases, adolescent health and non-communicable diseases.
The work will be conducted by LSHTM's MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group (TEG), led by Professor Helen Weiss.
Read more.
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4. Conferences
MIM information
With just over a month to go until MIM, you can find out the latest information from the conference website.
For those of you new to MIM or Dakar, the conference centre (Centre des Conferences de Diamniadio) and main airport (Blaise Diagne International Airport) are located outside of Dakar. There are hotels in Dakar, as well as a few others south of the conference (e.g. in Saly).
For LSHTM staff and students, LSHTM has a travel approval form (search for iTravel in service desk) that needs to be completed at least 5-15 days before travelling, and a checklist of things to do (search for Travelling overseas for School business in service desk and select the FAQ). There is also an e-learning course, along with more information on travelling, on the LSHTM intranet, under Services, Travel.
The checklist also has links to recommended vaccines for travel, so please do check to make sure you are covered.
The Malaria Centre at MIM
Booth
The Malaria Centre will have a booth at the conference, and so, in preparation for this we are gathering a list of all our LSHTM malaria-related project locations. If you are not listed on the website or in the previous annual report please do let us know the title of your project and its location so we can create a map of where our projects are based, and have an awesome set of materials to display at MIM.
Projects
Also we’d love to know if any staff or students from LSHTM, or our collaborators, have had an abstract accepted for MIM. Please do let us know and we can help promote your talk.
For the above, please send all correspondence to malaria@lshtm.ac.uk.
Reception
Finally, Alumni and the Malaria Centre will be putting on a reception at MIM on 17 April at 18:30. We will provide more information on the venue soon, but in the meantime don't forget to register!
Happy MIM preparation!
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5. Publications
This month we are lucky enough to have a blog post that accompanies our publication - thank you to everyone involved in helping to produce this for the newsletter.
If you would like to highlight a publication for next month's newsletter, let us know by sending us an email to: malaria@lshtm.ac.uk
You can see a list of publications from Malaria Centre members, including this month's highlighted publication feature from Mike Blackman, on our website's publication page.
New insights into malaria parasite escape from red blood cells
Malaria parasite among red blood cells.
An improved understanding of how the malaria parasite multiplies in the bloodstream of infected patients may help the development of new types of antimalarial drugs, according to new research published in Nature Microbiology.
Read more.
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