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Title: "Making 'sense' of how malaria parasites avoid their host's immune response"
Speaker: .jpg?sfvrsn=cbf4faba_0 "Dr. Kirk Deitsch, Weil Cornell Medicine")
Kirk Deitsch, PhD
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Recent Research Direction: The current work on the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum involves several projects that are focused on understanding various aspects of gene regulation and how parasites avoid the immune system of their host through antigenic variation. In addition to our established work on transcription, we are also interested in genome plasticity, particularly in how parasites generate diversity within the multi-copy gene families utilized for antigenic variation.
Date: Monday, January 24, 2022
Time: 12-1 pm
Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/91921012177
Questions? Please contact Michael Black if you have questions (blackmic@upenn.edu).