Lab PI Regina Cordy has been honored with the Award for Excellence in Research to recognize her outstanding achievement in the early stages of her career at WFU. Congratulations and check it here or on the page 7 of the 2023 Honors & Awards Issue!
Joy Oguama is profiled in The 2023 Graduation Edition of the Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest University’s student newspaper, as a distinguished graduate from the Biology major. Don’t miss the opportunity to read about the story of this esteemed graduate-to-be!
Lab PI Regina Cordy gave a talk on “A role for exogenous amino acids in enhancing red blood cell function in the oxidative environment of acute malaria” at the JHU World Malaria Day Symposium held on April 25, 2023. Check it here!
We are thrilled to announce that Heather has successfully defended her dissertation and has now officially earned her doctoral degree! Congratulation!
As one of the original members of the Cordy Lab, Heather has played a crucial role in building the foundation of this lab. Her insights and contributions have been incredibly helpful to everyone in the lab, and we are grateful for all that she has done to support.
After graduation, Heather will be joining the #CPEP fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital for a two-year postdoctoral training program. She will, without a doubt, continue to shine! And it is always an honor to have been a part of Heather’s academic journey and wish her all the best in her future endeavors!
Dinah’s presentation on “Investigating mechanisms of oxygen-mediated growth adaptation in Plasmodium falciparum” was excellent!
Danielle Farinella, previously a member of the Cordy Lab and now a PhD student at UPitt, is the primary author of a recent publication which summarized the discovery that Malaria disrupts the gut microbiome of rhesus macaques. Check it out here!
And her article is being featured in Frontiers news as one of the five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss. Congratulation!
Lab PI Regina Cordy has participated in the “Global Parasitology Seminar Series” at UPenn and gave a talk entitled “A role for exogenous amino acids in enhancing red blood cell function in the oxidative environment of acute malaria”.
The grant, entitled “Investigating the role of oxygen on Plasmodium multiplication rate” was awarded to Cordy Lab to support their early and conceptual stages of project development. Check it out on NIH’s website here.
Congrats to Dinah who wins an award from ACMCIP and give an oral presentation entitled “Deducing the Effect of Variable Oxygen Concentrations on Plasmodium falciparum Growth” during the ASTMH annual meeting. Check out the abstract here.
Former undergraduate student Noelle Allen presented her poster entitled “Gut barrier integrity in Macaques infected with Plasmodium Knowlesi” at ASTMH. Both of them performed an outstanding job! Well done!
Lab PI Regina Cordy also presented a talk entitled “Plasma metabolome and gut microbiome fluctuations during acute and chronic malaria infection” during ACMCIP Omics session.
Michael Ferdig was hosted by Cordy lab to deliver a seminar titled “Expanding the power of classical genetics to understand malaria parasite phenotypes: can malaria be the new yeast?”