Advances in Malaria Research

• Thoroughly reviews our current understanding of malarial biology
• Explores the subject with insights from post-genomic technologies
• Looks broadly at the disease, vectors of infection, and treatment and prevention strategies
• A timely publication with chapters written by global researchers leaders

Deepak Gaur, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Chetan Chitnis, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India; Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Virander S. Chauhan is Director for the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and?Biotechnology, New Delhi Component. Dr. Chauhan's research focuses on Malaria vaccine and drug development. Dr. Chauhan has written numerous articles related to the Fields of malarial biology and drug discovery. Dr. Chaudan is also co-editor of Recombinant and Synthetic Vaccines (Springer 1995).

Chapters                                              Contributors

  1. Introduction                                Virander S. Chauhan, Chetan Chitnis, Deepak Gaur

  2. Sporozoite Biology                    Volker Heussler

Institute of Cell Biology, Baltzerstrasse 4
3012 Bern, Switzerland

  3. Merozoite Biology                    Deepak Gaur, Chetan Chitnis, Virander S. Chauhan

  4. Gametocytogenesis                 Andy Waters

                                                                                Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences
                                                                                Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

                                                                                University of Glasgow

  5. Biology of transmission           Robert Sinden

                                                                 Imperial College, London

  6. Host Genetics                             Dominic Kwiatkowski

                                                                Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, U.K.

  7. Parasite Genomics                    Dyan Wirth

                                                                Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

                                                                Boston, USA

  8. Transcriptomics/Proteomics Zybnech Bozdech/Peter Preiser (?)

  9. Metabolism                               Hagai Ginsburg

                                                                 Professor, Dept. of Biological Chemistry

                                                                                The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

                                                                                 Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

10. Signaling                                       Pushkar Sharma

                                                                National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

11. Genetic Approaches to          Brendan Crabb

      Plasmodium Research             Director, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

12. Lipid Metabolism                      Henri Vial

13. Permeability pathways           Sanjay Desai

                                                          National Institutes of Health, USA

14. Gene Regulation                       ArturScherf

                                                                 Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

15. Drug Development                  Jeremy Burrows

                                                          Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)

                                                          Geneva, Switzerland

16. Drug Resistance                         Tom Wellems

                                                          National Institutes of Health, USA

17. Immune responses                   Louis Miller & Susan Pierce

                                                                National Institutes of Health, USA

18. Vaccines                                       Chetan Chitnis, Virander S. Chauhan, Deepak Gaur

19. P. falciparum Epidemiology  Pedro Alonso

                                                          CRESIB, Barcelona, Spain

20. P. falciparum Pathogenesis Patrick Duffy

                                                          National Institutes of Health, USA

21. P. vivax Epidemiology and     Hernando del Portillo and Ivo Mueller

      Pathogenesis                               CRESIB, Barcelona, Spain

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