Current Lab Members:

	Simon Kang'a is a postdoctoral fellow with experience in comparative genomics and gene expression profiling of organisms that cause important tropical diseases. His current research combines evolutionary biology, population genetics, high-throughput comparative genomics and bioinformatics to study the diversity and molecular evolution of different Plasmodium genomes. This knowledge will enhance understanding of the evolutionary forces that shape infectious disease genomes and consequently infectious disease phenotypes.
	Banoo Malik is a postdoctoral fellow who graduated in 2007 with experience in using molecular phylogenetics to investigate the evolution of meiotic recombination machinery and the evolutionary relationships among diverse eukaryotes. Her current research to compare the genomes of different trichomonad genera involves culturing various trichomonads and molecular evolutionary and bioinformatic analyses of gene sequence data from these organisms.
	Fernando Merino joined the lab in April 2006 as a post-doctoral fellow. Fernando graduated from the University of Cordoba, Argentina, followed by a post-doctoral position in Sao Paolo, Brazil. His research interests are centered on evolution and comparative genomics, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Currently he is carrying out comparative genome analysis between different species of the Plasmodium parasite.
	Steven Sullivan did his PhD and postdoctoral work in developmental biology but gradually found himself devoting more time to bioinformatics, which he studied formally as a postdoc at the NCBI. A stint at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) as a curator of microbial genomes preceded his current position as Bioinformatics Analyst for Jane Carlton's malaria genomics group.
	Martine Zilversmit graduated from Harvard University in 2007 where she studied genome structure evolution in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.  She interested in the evolution of infectious disease and incorporating evolutionary methods into molecular medical research to answer medically relevant questions. Her work combines theoretical, computational, and experimental methods to examine gene family evolution in the genomes of malaria parasites across the genus Plasmodium and its role in developing high virulence phenotypes, as well as immune evasion and drug resistance in human parasites.

Visiting Scientists :

Surendra Prajapati is a visiting scientist in the Carlton lab. He is a collaborator from Dr Hema Joshi's lab at the National Institute of Malaria Reseach (ICMR), India.