Posts Tagged: malaria
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira: Zeroing in on Circadian Rhythms in Parasitic Diseases
"In 2020, malaria deaths increased by 12 percent compared with 2019. The increases in malaria cases are deaths were associated with disruption to services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Malaria burden was heaviest in the WHO African Region, with an estimated 95 percent of cases and 96 percent...
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira (left) won the Brown-Goldstein Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research in 2021 for her work investigating the circadian clocks of human parasites. This is the highest honor bestowed by the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Here she looks over data with world-renowned circadian rhythm researcher Joseph Takahashi. (Photo courtesy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas)
Mosquito Expert Julián Hillyer's Topic: 'Not So Heartless!'
What a catchy title: "Not So Heartless." Wait, there's more! "Not So Heartless: Functional Integration of the Immune and Circulatory Systems of Mosquitoes." This may not be the proverbial heart-stopping seminar, but it promises to be an eye opener by a medical entomologist and captivating...
The malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Julián Hillyer, associate professor of biological sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Nashville, Tenn., will speak on the malaria mosquito at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis. (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)
There's a Genetic Component to the Host Choice of This Malaria Mosquito
A mosquito that feeds on both humans and cattle and is the primary vector of malaria in east Africa is making headlines. And well it should. Research led by UC Davis medical entomologists and published in the Sept. 15 edition of PLOS Genetics, indicates "a genetic component" to the blood-feeding...
Villagers and cattle along the road near Pimperena in southern Mali. UC Davis researchers have announced that mosquito preference for human-versus-animal biting has a genetic component. (Photo by Yoosook Lee, UC Davis)
Why They're Cautioning: 'Use Antimicrobials Wisely'
UC Davis evolutionary ecologist Scott Carroll and colleagues are on a mission. When the United Nations meets Sept. 21 in New York, they want the UN to reframe its action on the global antimicrobial drug resistance (AMR) crisis. It's crucial. How crucial is it? Antimicrobial drug resistance...
The malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Evolutionary ecologist Scott Carroll and colleagues point to a World Health Organization paper indicating that malaria is one of the diseases that "can no longer be cured with many older antibiotics or medicines." (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)
Spotlight on Research: Lizard Malaria
Join lizard wrangler Dr. Anne Vardo-Zalik for a journey into the world of the malarial parasite. Learn how research conducted on blue bellied lizards at Hopland can help inform decisions to protect humans from malaria in other parts of the world.
Malaria parasites infect a broad range of vertebrate hosts, including mammals (four species infect humans), birds, and reptiles. Since 1978, studies of Plasmodium mexicanum in the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis have greatly advanced the understanding of these parasites. An overall goal is to understand the ecology and evolution of the life history of the parasite, which can serve as a model for the evolution of parasite virulence. Current questions under investigation include: Do infected lizards have different white blood cell profiles than non-infected lizards? Are certain parasite genotypes transmitted more readily than others by the intermediate hosts, two species of sand flies? One species of sand fly is much more common than the other at Hopland, but does the species composition change over time?
Take a look at our short film "Beautiful Malaria" to get a taste of this project and then come meet Dr. Vardo Zalik in person.
Your $5 registration fee enables further outreach and education events at Hopland REC into the future!
Date: June 15, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Contact: Hannah Bird (707) 744 1424 ext 105 hbird@ucanr.edu
Location: Hopland Research and Extension Center
Register online here: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=18175