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Shirley Luckhart

Shirley Luckhart PhD, MS, BS

Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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Shirley Luckhart, professor of entomology, plant pathology, and nematology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and professor of biological sciences in the College of Science is an expert in arthropod-borne infectious diseases. Her background training includes natural resource conservation, entomology, biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology, and innate immunity. Lockhart's work for the past 20 plus years has focused on malaria, a disease that adversely affects poor and underdeveloped countries throughout the tropics. In particular, her lab has studied murine and non-human primate malaria parasite development and transmission, the transmission of the human parasite Plasmodium falciparum using cultured parasites, and P. falciparum transmission under field conditions in endemic countries. She is particularly interested in innate immunity of host-parasite interactions in the mosquito and mammalian host and developing interventions to block both disease and transmission.
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