Arjun Balakrishnan, Maria Ivanova, Oliver Billker, Ondine Duverger
Umeå Team
Arjun Balakrishnan
Post-Doc
Mirjam Hunziker
Post-Doc
Claire Sayers
Post-Doc
Ondine Duverger
Research Engineer
Vikash Pandey
Computational Biologist
Puja Tiwary
Post-Doc
Oliver Billker
Oliver obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1999. His interest in parasite cell biology and the molecular basis of infection goes back to his undergraduate studies in Biology at the Free University in Berlin. Following a postdoc in bacterial pathogenesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, he was funded through two consecutive personal research fellowships by the UK Medical Research Council (2002-2012) to lead a research team working at signal transductin in Plasmodium sexual stages at Imperial Collage London. From there, he moved to the Wellcome Sanger Instiute in 2007, to build an interdisciplinary team focussing on scaling up experimental manipulation of the P. berghei genome.