Transmissible forms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum captured by scanning electron microscopy (photo: Françoise Brand / Swiss TPH, supported by the Center for Cellular Imaging and Nano Analytics, University of Basel)
Nicolas Brancucci, Swiss TPH, has been appointed new Assistant Professor (with tenure track) for basic research in the biology of infectious diseases of poverty at the University of Basel. He will also lead a newly created unit at Swiss TPH called "Malaria Host Interactions" which aims at gaining a better understanding of malaria host-parasite interactions. Nicolas Brancucci is a cell biologist and parasitologist, born in Basel in 1982. He obtained his MSc and PhD at Swiss TPH and the University of Basel, where he investigated epigenetic mechanisms controlling antigenic variation of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum . He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Boston (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health) and Glasgow (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology) focusing on the process of malaria transmission stage formation. Brancucci will lead a new unit at Swiss TPH called "Malaria Host Interactions".
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