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I am a MRC Career Development Research Fellow in the School of Infection and Immunity at the University of Glasgow, where I lead research on the asexual blood-stage proliferation of malaria parasites. My lab develops and utilizes scalable, inducible gene knockout approaches to discover essential gene functions of the lethal human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Previously, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Prof. Mike Blackman’s lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London from 2018 to 2024, where I investigated the roles of protein families, including phospholipases, perforin-like proteins, and rhomboid proteases, in the replication cycle of the parasite within red blood cells. I conducted my doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Arnab Pain at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and Prof. Richard Culleton at the Nagasaki Institute of Tropical Medicine in Japan from 2012 to 2017, during which I established a genetic resource for the under-utilized rodent malaria model, Plasmodium vinckei. My current research interests focus on understanding the asexual replication of the parasite within red blood cells, investigating the extraordinary form of cell division known as schizogony. My goal is to uncover the critical roles of essential genes in the lethal malaria parasite, utilizing advanced -omics, biochemical, and imaging technologies to explore the mechanisms of action and reveal new aspects of parasite biology.