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robmoon.bsky.social

@robmoon.bsky.social

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Scientist researching Malaria at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Views my own.

robmoon.bsky.social @robmoon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

For those interested in Masters in lab and field based research in infectious disease we have 3 fantastic programmes to choose from MSc Immunology, medical parasitology and entomology and medical microbiology. They benefit from very flexible module choices and summer projects in UK and abroad!

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robmoon.bsky.social @robmoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

We mostly use P.knowlesi which is a zoonotic malaria parasite that naturally infects macaques and people in SE Asia - growing this in the lab in human red blood cells. We use genome editing and microscopy to study cool processes like this - which ~shows Pk using a portal gun to invade a red cell!

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robmoon.bsky.social @robmoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

I guess it’s about time I introduced myself here! I am Rob Moon, a molecular parasitologist working at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. I work on lots of aspects of malaria parasite biology but particularly how the parasites get inside red blood cells (invasion).

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