What can human population genetics teach us about malaria?

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Dr Bridget Penman, University of Oxford
• Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00
• Lecture Theater, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Heledd Eavis.

Host: Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas

Infectious diseases exert huge selective pressures on their hosts, generating an array of population genetic patterns. I am interested in what such patterns, in the genes of humans and other primates, can teach us about malaria. I will present evolutionary-epidemiological models of malaria infection blocking mutations, such as the mutation responsible for the Duffy negative blood group. I will discuss what the global distribution of these mutations may indicate about malaria parasites.

This talk is part of the Parasitology Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Biology
• Cambridge Infectious Disease
• Cambridge Infectious Diseases
• Graduate-Seminars
• Lecture Theater, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
• Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.
• Life Sciences
• Life Sciences
• ME Seminar
• Pathology Seminars
• my_list
• other talks

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.