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Mary-Lou Wilde, PhD

@mlwilde.bsky.social

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Post-doc in malaria parasite molecular biology at the University of Melbourne

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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Drs @mlwilde.bsky.social Sarah Farrell, Christopher Goodman & @fad1.bsky.social review novel techniques for disrupting #malaria #transmission. #Plasmodium #Mosquito #GeneDrive #Paratransgenesis authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPdi_XTJP...

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Mary-Lou Wilde, PhD @mlwilde.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In the McFadden lab (@fad1.bsky.social) we are working on novel malaria transmission-blocking strategies incl. gene drives to target Plasmodium itself. How would a parasite gene drive work? Our new review explores this idea. Artwork by Sarah Farrel. Read here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPdi_XTJP...

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

We are developing a simple, very cheap, low tech way to reduce malaria transmission. Instead of giving the antimalarials to people, we give them to the mosquitoes that spread the parasite. How do we drug a mosquito? Read on. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Identifying antimalarials that disrupt malaria parasite transmission when fed to the mosquito

A decade-long decline in malaria cases has plateaued, primarily due to parasite drug resistance and mosquito resistance to insecticides used in bed ne…

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