MMI's Deepti Sarkar Promoted to Research Associate

Deepti Sarkar, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has been promoted to research associate. Sarkar studies host-pathogen interactions, focusing on deciphering the molecular mechanisms regulating Plasmodium falciparum host cell egress and invasion while developing self-targeting inhibitors and vaccination strategies for malaria prevention.

Born and raised in India, Sarkar earned a PhD in plant molecular biology from Bose Institute, Calcutta University, and conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the lab of Prakash Srinivasan, PhD, MS, where she employed molecular, chemical genetic, and biochemical assays to elucidate the critical regulation of cyclic nucleotide pathway in modulating Plasmodium falciparum, egress, invasion, and life cycle progression across human and mosquito stages.

Sarkar has published five research articles in journals including Nature Communications. An additional paper will be published in Nature this year.