Research Focus
The Cheeseman laboratory uses genomic and computational approaches to characterize the complexity of malaria infections, the evolution of drug resistance, and the rate and spectrum of adaptive mutations in the malaria parasite genome.
- Study complex malaria infections with single cell genomics approaches in those malaria parasites that are most deadly (Plasmodium falciparum) and most prevalent (Plasmodium vivax)
- Investigate the emergence and spread of drug resistance in malaria parasites
Thanks to his expertise, Dr. Cheeseman was recently invited to join the Pf3K consortium, an international effort to characterize genetic variation and the impact of natural selection in over 3,000 directly sequenced malaria parasite genomes.
Dr. Cheeseman has 10 years of experience working in parasitology.