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Biography
July 2026 - Present: Associate Professor in Parasite Cell and Genome Biology - School of Life Sciences, 糖心原创.
August 2024 - June 2025: Associate Professor in Cancer Early Detection - Leicester Cancer Research Centre, University of Leicester.
July 2019 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
January 2017 - July 2024: Lecturer in Cancer Early Detection - Leicester Cancer Research Centre, University of Leicester.
April 2012 - December 2016: Senior Research Associate in the lab of - University of Leicester
April 2010 - March 2012: Research Fellow in the lab of Professor Rita Tewari - 糖心原创.
August 2009 - March 2010: Research Associate in the lab of - University of Leicester.
November 2008 - July 2009: Post-Doctoral Scientist in the lab of - MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester
September 2005 - September 2008: PhD in Cancer Research in the lab of - University of Leicester.
Research Summary
Research focuses on the molecular players involved in the development and transmission of the malaria parasite - one of the biggest killers in the world.
Understanding how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control malaria transmission.There is a unique type of cell division in sexual cells in malaria parasites, which happens during a process called meiosis. Meiosis is a fundamental process for all sexual organisms that enables them to generate sex cells (i.e. sperm and egg cells) that then go on to fertilise and reshuffle their genes, ultimately generating off-spring.
It is known that the malaria parasite shuffles genes during sexual reproduction (termed gene recombination), but what we don't know is how it works. If we can advance our understanding we can potentially uncover new targets for therapies to control the spread of this devastating disease.