PI
David Sibley
Education:
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford School of Medicine
Projects:
Faculty Profile
Email: sibley@wustl.edu
Staff
Jennifer Barks
Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis
Project:
General lab manager; cell based assay development and drug inhibition growth assays.
Email: jlbarks@wustl.edu
Matt Freese
Education:
M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Missouri State University
B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology & English Literature, Missouri State University
Project:
Drug inhibitors, egress, and air-liquid-interface culture of Cryptosporidium spp.
Email: freese@wustl.edu
Shrushti Patil
Education:
M.S. in Microbiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
B.S. in Microbiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Project:
Screening CDPK1 inhibitors as potential drug for Toxoplasma gondii.
Email: shrushti@wustl.edu
Ph.D. Students
Mea Akey
Education:
B.A. in Biology: Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis
Project:
Dissecting Vitamin B6 metabolism in Cryptosporidium parvum.
Email: marianna.akey@wustl.edu
Abby Kimball
Education:
B.A. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
Project:
Investigating the molecular mechanisms of meiosis and mitosis in Cryptosporidium parvum.
Email: abigail.kimball@wustl.edu
Staff Scientists
Arun Dhillon
Education:
Ph.D. in Biosciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Project:
Protein discovery and characterization in Toxoplasma.
Email: arund@wustl.edu
Iti Saraav
Education:
Ph.D. in Immunology, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, India
Project:
Effect of early infection with Cryptosporidium on oral tolerance.
Email: iti.saraav@wustl.edu
Taher Uddin
Education:
Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases, Malaria and Endosymbiosis Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia
Project:
Discovery of new inhibitors of acute and chronic toxoplasmosis.
Email: taher@wustl.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows
Melanie Key
Education:
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Clemson University
B.S. in Microbiology, Auburn University
Project:
Identifying the components of the iron-sulfur cluster synthesis pathway, their function, and their import into the mitosome of C. parvum.
Email: keym@wustl.edu
Silu Deng
Education:
Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, NE, 2023
Project:
Studying potential alternative respiratory pathway in mitosome of Cryptosporidium parvum.
Email: silu@wustl.edu
Yong Fu
Education:
Ph.D. in Veterinary Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, 2018
Project:
Defining the roles of glycosyl hydrolases in control of cyst turnover
Email: fuyong@wustl.edu
Guanxiong Yan
Education:
Ph.D. in Genetics, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academic of Sciences, P. R. China.
Project:
Studying the molecular mechanism of the host range of Cryptosporidium.
Email: guanxiongy@wustl.edu
Wanyi Huang
Education:
Ph.D. in Microbiology, South China Agricultural University, P. R. China.
Project:
Genetic analysis of virulence in Cryptosporidium parvum.
Email: hwanyi@wustl.edu
Xu Wang
Education:
Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Xiamen University, China, 2020
Project:
Cryo-EM structure analysis of tubulin-containing cytoskeleton structures in Cryptosporidium.
Email: xuwang@wustl.edu
Jing Xia
Education:
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Southern Medical University, P.R. China, 2019
Project:
Investigating the mechanisms of bradyzoite reactivation in Toxoplasma gondii.
Email: xia.j@wustl.edu
Pengge Qian
Education:
Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Xiamen University, China, 2022
Project:
Structural and biological features of invasion machinery-conoid in Toxoplasma gondii.
Email: pqian@wustl.edu