The Latest News from The Bailey Lab
Early distribution of artemisinin partial resistance mutation kelch13 561H
Early distribution of kelch13 561H was in high transmission areas in addition to sites previously described.
Center for Genomic Biology opening in INES-Ruhengeri
Opening of the INES Ruhengeri Center for Genomic Biology
Improved P. falciparum Variant Calling GATK4 Pipeline
Improved variants improve population differentiation by T-SNE
COIAF — direct statistics for complexity of infection
Rapid COI determination using allele frequencies.
Defining the extent and evolution of HRP2 and HRP3 deletions in Ethiopia
Our new work in Nature Micro titled Plasmodium falciparum is evolving to escape malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Ethiopia by Sindew Feleke and Jonathan Parr
Single-cell RNAseq reveals LCL heterogeneity
Collaborative work with the Luftig lab at Duke of 10X Single Cell RNA-seq on LCLs. Just out in eLife longstanding work finally wrapped up demonstrating heterogeneity
Understanding airflow and transmission in automobile cabins
Collaboration with fluid dynamics experts Varghese Mathai and Kenny Breuer to address risks of airborne infections (e.g SarsCov2) based on ventilation patterns in Scientific Advances.
Open Postdoctoral Position in Our Lab
The lab has an open position for a postdoctoral fellow in computational biology, genomics, and/or bioinformatics focused on work related to our ongoing malaria projects.
Heterozygome manuscript out on Bio archives
Our work making rainbows with the Greenhouse lab--demonstrating the utility of diverse microhaplotypes from amplicons for more powerfully addressing questions in malaria gen-epi
Lwidiko receives Commonwealth Mentorship Award
Lwidiko Mhamilawa, a collaborator who visited us in November 2019 has received the Commonwealth Point of Light Award for mentoring young scientists in Tanzania. The award is for his work with 'Projekt Inspire’ and ‘Next Einstein Forum’ See
https://medicopress.media/2020/02/01/tanzanian-medic-honoured-by-uk-government-for-promoting-science/
SeekDeep JID Cover
Congrats to Sujata and Jess on the publication and to Nick Hathaway on their publication:
Nick's SeekDeep image graces graces the cover of JID.
Merci's paper
Merci's paper looking at miRNA levels and expression across cancers yield the suprising result of elevation in AML being correlated with survival (as pictured).
Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium vivax
One of the last chimpanzee studies at the NIH allowing for sporozoites from a genetic cross between Plasmmodium vivax resistant
Budding Medical Illustrator?
Alaina Grace Bailey of some relation to Dr. Bailey provided the cover art for Dr. Moormann's new review in parasite immunology.
Cat awarded Young Investigator Grant from Alex's Lemonade Stand
Alex's Lemonade Stand will be supporting Cat' as a young investigator, specifically her work on NK cells in endemic Burkitt lymphoma.