Dr Julia Knoeckel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
I joined the labs of Gavin Wright and Julian Rayner in the Sanger Institute Malaria Programme in 2013. In my project I am working with mosquito stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium ookinetes and sporozoites have to travel from the midgut of the mosquito into the salivary gland to be transmitted to a human host. However, our knowledge on how the parasite reaches and invades the salivary gland is quite limited. The aim of my project is to identify novel and essential interactions between parasite and mosquito proteins, which could provide new targets to block transmission of malaria.
My timeline
Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, MD, USA
Visiting Scientist at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
PhD in Zoology, University of Hamburg, Germany
PhD student at Bernhard Nocht Institute for tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
MSc in Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany