Kafatos:Povelones, Michael
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Current Research InterestsI am a postdoctoral fellow in the Kafatos/Christophides lab at Imperial College London. My research focuses on how the innate immune system of the mosquito recognizes and eliminates malaria parasites. Though it is not widely known, mosquitoes are amazing parasite killers. In fact, the vast majority of the parasites ingested when a mosquito bites a malarious person are attacked and eliminated before they can mount an infection. It is the few parasites that survive (one is enough), that are ultimately responsible for disease transmission.
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