
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.