The Fidock Lab

David A. Fidock Lab | Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology @Columbia_MI, Columbia University Irving Medical Center @ColumbiaMed | Managed by Isla as of 8/01/24

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ASTMH in New Orleans was a Success!

Looking forward to this upcoming year in Tropical Medicine.

https://t.co/yxqXwViuHG

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Our lab heading to ASTMH meeting - starts Wed, New Orleans. We've had a fantastic number of abstract and symposia submissions - promises to be a great meeting! Schedule: https://t.co/pNyddaWFLs. See https://t.co/AmSfgpkXKH

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues there!

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The Fidock Lab is coming full force to New Orleans November 14-17 for ASTMH! We are excited to be attending this premier international forum for tropical medicine and #GlobalHealth .
Hope to see you there!
Register at: https://t.co/ORDgrGO5qo #IAmTropMed #TropMed24

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Congrats to Lab member @JohnOkombo5 on publishing "Towards next-generation treatment options to combat Plasmodium falciparum malaria" in Nature Reviews Microbiology.

Take a look!

https://t.co/piHZrDzcIw

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More uproar about the loss of VEuPathDB:

Critical loss: the effects of VEuPathDB defunding on global health - The Lancet Microbe https://t.co/a40BuIhlfh

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On Sunday, September 15th, we will lose access to VEuPathDB, an important database to the Parasitology community. The recent commentary in Science illustrates how this will affect our field. Take a look!

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Parasitologists up in arms as NIH ends funding for key database | Science | AAAS https://t.co/ohjqKziWFS

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Proud to be one of the 2025 Awardees of the Alice & C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology. Thank you to the @ASBMB for this Honor.
Hopefully see you at their annual meeting April 12-15 in Chicago!
More about the awardees:
https://t.co/FATrgE3qZe

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@TrendsParasitol @AndrewPWaters @drsmallsaunders @NatureMicrobiol @WCIPGLASGOW @UofGMVLS @ColumbiaMed Congratulations to @drsmallsaunders and team on this remarkable achievement! Amazing work!

[Trends in Parasitology @TrendsParasitol]

Drs Katie Hughes & @AndrewPWaters highlight @drsmallsaunders @fidocklab & colleagues’ @NatureMicrobiol article on #tRNA #modification #reprogramming contributing to #artemisinin #resistance in #Plasmodium #falciparum. @WCIPGLASGOW @UofGMVLS @ColumbiaMed

https://t.co/pX9On8oS0S

[Jennifer Small-Saunders @drsmallsaunders]

Cool profile of our @NatureMicrobiol study by Drs. @AndrewPWaters and Katie Hughes out now in @TrendsParasitol! Check it out. @fidocklab @ameyasinha @cuimc_id #tRNA #malaria

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Enjoy some photos from the recent Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM Society) 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference which was held last week in Kigali, Rwanda!

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Check out our new study led by @drsmallsaunders on tRNA modification reprogramming in artemisinin-resistant malaria. Out now in @NatureMicrobiol !🧪👩‍🔬
@cuimc_id @Columbia_MI

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

OUT NOW 👉 tRNA modification reprogramming contributes to artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum @drsmallsaunders @fidocklab @cuimc_ID

https://t.co/04LWhu0ILJ

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Congrats to Jen on her paper "tRNA modification reprogramming of Plasmodium falciparum as a feature of artemisinin" being accepted for publication in Nature Microbiology! And congrats to coauthors Talia and Laura! 🥳🧪👩‍🔬

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Happy New Year from the Fidock Lab! We have had an incredibly amazing (and busy) year, and have had great success with funding, and brought in lots of new lab members as our alum moved to various parts of the city, country, or globe! Cheers to 2024! 🥳🍾🥂🎆

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Check out this PBS NOVA documentary, "The Battle to Beat Malaria", and look closely for some ASTMH signage!
#iamtropmed

https://t.co/Cm6VFjmFHy

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Congratulations to Sachel for being this year's Winner of the Take-Off Award for the ACMCIP Subgroup of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
Also attached are some photos from this year's ASTMH conference in Chicago! 🛫🏙️🏅

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Check out this article on artemisinin resistance that malaria parasites have developed in eastern Africa! The third section of the article focuses on our lab and the work we have done to fight the resistance.
https://t.co/YxSepkvj0R

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Congratulations to John for being featured by the Gates Foundation in an interview at the Grand Challenges meeting in Dakar! 🧪
https://t.co/iRCI3ffDfk

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Happy to link two papers that were just published with authors from our lab! Vandana and Kurt worked very hard on these studies, congrats to both!🧪🥳
https://t.co/OZTofELy3l

https://t.co/ls33DqotOL