Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum

apical membrane antigen-1

Christopher Smith (Dunn lab, Biomedical Engineering)

Jeffrey Marchioni (Georgiou lab, Biomedical Engineering)

Jin Eyun Kim (Georgiou lab, Biomedical Engineering)

Project Goal

To characterize polymorphism of P. falciparum AMA1 sequences and for future Malaria vaccine engineering efforts