2024
Bishara Marzook
Francis Crick Institute, UK
“20,001: A Crypto Odyssey – Defining the essential host genome for growth and development of Cryptosporidium”
Mark Carrington
University of Cambridge, UK
“How do trypanosome receptors for host macromolecules avoid the immune response?”
Matthew Child
Imperial College London, UK
“Targetted saturation mutagenesis reveals biochemical signatures of amino acid function”
Karine Le Roch
University of California Riverside, USA
“Gene Regulation in Human Malaria Parasites: From Chromatin Structure to RNA Binding Protein”
Rita Tewari
University of Nottingham
Andy Waters
University of Glasglow
Tony Holder
Francis Crick Institute
Dominique Soldati
Université de Genève
Rob Moon
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Matt Child
Imperial College London
Helen Saibil
Birkbeck, University of London
David Baker
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mike Blackman
Adam Sateriale
Francis Crick Institute
2023
Michael Lewis
LSHTM, London, UK
“Experimental Digestive Chagas Disease”
Moritz Treeck
Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
“Evolution and function of the P. falciparum FIKK kinase family”
Calvin Tiengwe
Imperial College London, UK
“The battle for iron between African trypanosomes and their vertebrate hosts”
Mara Lawniczak
Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
“The Malaria Cell Atlas - Mali Edition”
Richard Wheeler
University of Oxford, UK
“What can we learn from genome-wide protein localisations in a parasite?”
Leann Tilley
University of Melbourne, Australia
“High resolution imaging reveals unexpected roles of the P. falciparum mitotic machinery in schizogony and gametocytogenesis”
Bonnie Webster
Natural History Museum, UK
“The complexed relationships of the African Schistosoma species”
Friedrich Frischknecht
Heidelberg University Medical School, Germany
“Divergent actin and microtubule nucleating complexes in malaria parasites”
2022
Melissa Hart
Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
“How do malaria parasites invade red blood cells and are there species-specific mechanisms?”
Michael Lewis
LSHTM, London, UK
“Experimental Digestive Chagas Disease”
Josie Ferreira
Birkbeck College, UK
“Structural plasticity of Plasmodium's microtubule cytoskeleton revealed by cryo-ET”
Joana Faria
University of York, UK
“The VEXing problem of allelic exclusion in African trypanosomes”
2020
Adam Sateriale
Francis Crick Institute, UK
“Domesticating a parasite: exploring cryptosporidiosis with a natural mouse model”
Elena A. Levashina
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
“Metabolic regulation of Plasmodium development within mosquito”
2019
Eva Frickel
Francis Crick Institute, UK
“Immune-mediated control of Toxoplasma in human cells”
Richard McCulloch
University of Glasgow, UK
“How on earth does Leishmania replicate its nuclear genome?”
Jack Sunter
Oxford Brookes University, UK
“Leishmania flagellar pocket architecture is crucial for pathogenicity”
Till Voss
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
“CRISPR/Cas9-engineered parasites offer new possibilities for basic and applied research on P. falciparum gametocytes”
Bungo Akiyoshi
University of Oxford, UK
“Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation: lessons from kinetoplastid parasites”
Ed Tate
Imperial College London, UK
“Validation of NMT as an antimalarial drug target”
2018
Michael Delves
Imperial College London, UK
“High throughput discovery of new drugs targeting malaria parasite transmission - towards the altruistic antimalarial”
Gerald Spaeth
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
“The good, the bad, and the ugly: Leishmania genome instability as a driver of evolutionary adaptation in the field and in culture”
Terry Smith
University of St Andrews, UK
“Exploiting parasite weaknesses in lipid and associated metabolism”
Marcus Lee
Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
“Exploiting drug resistance to identify antimalarial targets”
Mattie Pawlowic
Wellcome Center for Anti-Infectives Research (CAIR), University of Dundee, UK
David Horn
Wellcome Center for Anti-Infectives Research (CAIR), University of Dundee, UK
2017
Sam Alsford
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Henry Staines
St George’s University of London
Andrew Blagborough
Imperial College London
Andrew Osborne
Birkbeck University of London
Martin Taylor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Mark Carrington
University of Cambridge
“Codon use is the major determinant of mRNA levels in trypanosomes”
Mathias Marti
University of Glasgow
“Revisiting the biology of malaria transmission in an era of elimination”
Keith Gull
Professor of Molecular Microbiology, The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
2017 Biochemical Society Award Medal: Presentation and Lecture. “The extreme biology of the African trypanosome”. Insights into cell biology, pathogenicity and evolution — and future careers in research
Anastasios D. Tsaousis
University of Kent
“A novel cell culture platform for Cryptosporidium that enables long-term cultivation and new tools for systematic investigation of its biology”
Jeremy Mottram
University of York
“Protein kinases and life cycle progression in trypanosomatids”
Catherine Merrick
University of Keele, UK
“Quadruplexes, helicases and DNA replication dynamics in the P. falciparum genome: It is life, Jim, but not as we do it.”
Julius Lukes
Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
“All that is hidden shall be revealed: surprises in monoxenous insect trypanosomatids”
2016
Edgar Deu
The Francis Crick Institute, London
“Chemical Biology Approaches to Identify and Study Antimalarial Targets”
Dominique Soldati-Favre
University of Geneva
“The ins and outs of Toxoplasma invasion and egress from infected cells”
Sue Vaughan
Oxford Brookes University
“Basal body biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei”
Matthew Child
Imperial College London
“Small-molecule tricks to solve a redox chaperone puzzle in Toxoplasma: How TgDJ-1 regulates microneme secretion”
Lucy Glover
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
“DNA repair and Antigenic Variation in African trypanosomes”
Sanjeev Krishna
St Georges Hospital, London
“Controversies around artemisinin”
2015
James MacRae
MRC, NIMR London
"Lipid metabolism in Toxoplasma gondii – Routes for drug therapy?"
Moritz Treeck
MRC, NIMR London
"How do apicomplexan parasites regulate the interaction with their host cell?”
Etienne Pays
Université Libre de Bruxelles
“Molecular arms race between African trypanosomes and humans”
Matthew Higgins
University of Oxford
“Structural insights into severe malaria”
Christine Clayton
ZMBH, Heidelberg
“Networks of gene expression control in trypanosomes”
Oliver Billker
Sanger Institute
“Reverse genetic screening in a malaria parasite”
Anthony A Holder
The Francis Crick Institute, London
“37 years of Molecular Parasitology - a personal reflection”
2014
Bill Wickstead
University of Nottingham, UK
"Structure and evolution of the 'VSGnome': the VSG repertoire of Trypanosoma brucei Lister 427 strain"
Jacob Baum
Imperial College London, UK
"High definition imaging of malaria parasites; achieving 'Superb' resolution"
Paul Kaye
University of York, UK
"Towards a molecular and cellular understanding of splenomegaly: potential new therapies for visceral leishmaniasis"
Andrew Tobin
MRC Toxicology Unit Leicester, UK
"Global phospho-proteomics reveals a novel relationship between PfPKG and PfCDPK1"
Keith Matthews
University of Edinburgh
“Environmental sensing and cell-cell communication in African trypanosomes”
Ross Waller
Univerity of Cambridge
“Invasion and apicoplast evolution in Alveolates: lessons from the relatives”
2013
Gloria Rudenko
Imperial College London, UK
“Epigenetic control of transcription in African trypanosomes”
Michael Blackman
MRC NIMR, London, UK
“What does MSP1 do? Functional analysis of a malaria vaccine candidate”
George K. Christophides
Imperial College London, UK
"Bloc[king] Malaria Trans[mission] in the last 5 years: the fight within the vector"
David Conway
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
"Parasite population genomics identifies targets of immunity"
Mark C. Field
University of Cambridge, UK
"Endocytic pathways in African trypanosomes: Probing novel functions by proteomics"
David Baker
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
"The role of cGMP signalling in blood stage and mosquito stage malaria parasite"
2012
Bob Sinden
Imperial College London
“Understanding the Transmission Blocking Potential of Antimalarial Compounds”
Keith Gull
University of Oxford
“Morphogenesis, Differentiation and Pathogenicity of Kinetoplastid Parasites”
Jayne Raper
New York Medical Center, USA
“The evolution of primate trypanosome lytic factor, an anti-microbial high density lipoprotein”
Kasturi Haldar
University of Notre Dame, USA
“Endoplasmic reticulum PI(3)P lipid binding targets malaria proteins to host cell”
Rob Moon
MRC NIMR, London, UK
“Continuous in vitro culture of Plasmodium knowlesi in human erythrocytes: a genetically tractable human malarial pathogen”
Harry de Koning
University of Glasgow, UK
“Assessment of pyrimidine biosynthesis and salvage pathways as drug targets in Trypanosoma brucei: pipeline or pipe dream?”
2011
David Horn
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
“RNAi libraries for the identification of drug targets and drug resistance mechanisms in African trypanosomes”
Rita Tewari
Nottingham University
“Systematic functional studies to unravel malaria parasite biology and identify putative drug and vaccine targets”
Wendy Gibson
University of Bristol
“A spotlight on meiosis and mating in trypanosomes”
Janet Cox-Singh
Saint Georges Hospital London
“Anti-inflamatory cytokines in acute Plasmodium knowlesi malaria”
Julian Rayner
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
“Identification of an erythrocyte receptor essential for invasion by Plasmodium falciparum merozoites”
Shane Wilkinson
Queen Mary, University of London
“Trypanocidal activity of nitroaromatic pro-drugs: solving a 40 year old question?”
2010
Mark Carrington
University of Cambridge
“Post-transcriptional control of a whole genome”
Michael Povelones
Imperial College London
“How mosquitoes kill malaria parasites”
Colin Sutherland
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
“A mystery in molecular diagnostics; the case of missing malaria parasite”
David Ferguson
Oxford University John Radcliffe Hospital
“Continuing role of microscopy in apicoplexan research”
Ingrid Muller
Imperial College London
“Manipulation and exploitation of mammalian L-arginine metabolism by Leishmania parasites”
Henry Staines
Saint Georges Hospital London
“Membrane transport and the plasmodial liver stage”
2009
Adrian Hill
Oxford University
“Malaria Vaccines: a TRAP and a Grand Challenge”
Sarah Sebastian
Imperial College London
“Regulatable gene expression in Plasmodium: an overview of available tools”
John Kelly
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
“Exploring chromosome segregation in trypanosomes and malaria parasites”
Dominic Kwiatkowski
Oxford University
“Genomic epidemiology of malaria”
2008
Damer Blake
Institute for Animal Health, Compton
“Eimeria genes, genomics and genetic mapping”
Nikolai Windbichler
Imperial College London
“I-PpoI: Shredding the X chromosome of Anopheles gambiae”
Kleoniki Gounaris
Imperial College London
“Secreted proteins of Trichinella spiralis modulate purinergic signalling in immune cells”