2024

2024

December

• Our preprint (research work performed in the Prigge and Llinás labs at Johns Hopkins and Penn State, respectively) titled "Multiple redundant carboxylic acid transporters support mitochondrial metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum" is now on Biorxiv. 

October

• Marion Parshall (Microbiology) and Claire Gething (OSBP) join the lab for their rotations! We are excited to start some experimental work. 

September

• Krithika attends the Young Investigators in Parasitology (YIP) meeting & the Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) at Woods Hole, MA. 

August

• The Rajaram lab is open as of August 15th! We are housed on the 4th floor of the Biological Sciences Building at the Ohio State University. 

• Much awaited funding news! The NOA for Krithika's NIAID DP2 award has arrived. This five-year grant will allow us to characterize essential functions of the mitochondrion in malaria parasites. We are grateful to NIAID for supporting our research efforts.