Celebration & Publication

  • Interview with MPM2023 Poster Award Winners

    Congratulations to our THREE MPM 2023 Poster Award Winners.

    Ben Liffner, Turbo Talk entitled “Investigating development of malaria parasites through the mosquito.”

    Inês Bento, Turbo Talk entitled “Expanding the knowledge in Liver Stage Plasmodium Replication using Expansion Microscopy.”

    James Blauwkamp, Poster entitled “Landscape of nuclear pore complexes during the erythrocytic proliferation of the rodent malaria parasites using expansion microscopy.

  • Congratulation Erica!!!

    On April 14th, 2023, Erica Hathaway, Undergraduate Student in our lab, was awarded the UROP grant for 2023-2024.

    We are so excited for you and the year of science we will keep doing together.

  • New Lab Preprint - March 2023

    “We raided our freezers, got all the antibodies we could, and imaged parasites across the asexual blood stage of their lifecycle using expansion microscopy. “ - Ben Liffner

    Liffner B, Cepeda Diaz AK, Blauwkamp J, Anaguano D, Frölich S, Muralidharan V, Wilson DW, Dvorin J, Absalon S. Atlas of Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development using expansion microscopy. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Mar 24:2023.03.22.533773. doi: 10.1101/2023.03.22.533773. PMID: 36993606; PMCID: PMC10055389.

  • Ph.D admission !

    Elaine was accepted into her top graduate school choice and awarded a department research recruitment fellowship. The future is bright Congratulations, Elaine. We are all proud of your achievements.

  • Poster Prize at MNID -August 2022

    Congratulation, Ben and Manuel Fierro from Josh Beck’s Lab, for getting the best Poster at the 2022 Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases meeting;

  • Summer Picnic

    August 2021 - Enjoying food with friends and colleagues. Thank you, everyone, for making this day very special.

  • First publication of the Absalon Lab!

    Nov 2021 - Congratulations, Ben, for publishing your first publication with us only nine months after you joined us!

Talk and Conference Announcement

  • Molecular Parasitology Meeting XXXIV, Woods Hole MA

    Another lovely time at MPM, where I saw old friends and made new ones.

  • Alice and C.C. Wang Award at Discover BMB2023

    What a wonderful day and dinner. Thank you, Dr. Dyann Wirth, for inviting me as your guest speaker at DiscoverBMB 2023. I had unforgettable memories and came back home with wisdom from every outstanding scientist I met or reconnected with. Very thankful for such a supportive community.

  • Excited and honored by the invitation to talk from Dr. Scott Lindner at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar at Penn State.

    — Sabrina Absalon

  • Super excited to give a Keynote lecture at UGS-CTEGD.

    Another fantastic news came on April 20th, Dr. Ben Liffner has been selected for a talk, and James Blauwkamp will present his recent work on NPC via a poster— Sabrina Absalon.

  • The lab is really proud to announce that Ben has been selected for an oral presentation! Congratulation Ben!!!