Department of Molecular Protozoology

Subjects:

Professor (SUP)

Toshihiro Horii, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Professor

Eisaku Kimura, M.D., Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Palacpac, Nirianne Marie Querijero, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Takahiro Tougan, Ph.D.

Nobuko Arisue, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Masanori Yagi, Ph.D.

Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Development of malaria vaccine based on Plasmodium falciparum SERA5.
2. Study on the function of SERA5 protein.
3. Study on host-parasite interaction of malaria infection.
4. Study on host switch history and its molecular mechanism of Plasmodium species.

Papers published in 2015

1. Contrasting Patterns of Serologic and Functional Antibody Dynamics to Plasmodium falciparum Antigens in a Kenyan Birth Cohort.

   Arlene E Dent, Indu Malhotra, Xuelie Wang, Denise Babineau, Kee Thai Yeo, Timothy Anderson, Rhonda J Kimmel, Evelina Angov, David E Lanar, David Narum, Sheetij Dutta, Jack Richards, James G Beeson, Brendan S Crabb, Alan F Cowman, Toshihiro Horii, Eric Muchiri, Peter L Mungai, Christopher L King and James W Kazura

   Clin Vaccine Immunol, 23 (2), 104-116, 2015.
2. Science insights.

   Kazuyuki Tanabe

   Parasitol Int, 64 (3), xiv-xv, 2015.
3. Plasmodium berghei ANKA causes intestinal malaria associated with dysbiosis.

   Tomoyo Taniguchi, Eiji Miyauchi, Shota Nakamura, Makoto Hirai, Kazutomo Suzue, Takashi Imai, Takahiro Nomura, Tadashi Handa, Hiroko Okada, Chikako Shimokawa, Risa Onishi, Alex Olia, Jun Hirata, Haruyoshi Tomita, Hiroshi Ohno, Toshihiro Horii and Hajime Hisaeda

   Sci Rep, 5, 15699, 2015.
4. Recent advances in recombinant protein-based malaria vaccines.

   Simon J Draper, Evelina Angov, Toshihiro Horii, Louis H Miller, Prakash Srinivasan, Michael Theisen and Sumi Biswas

   Vaccine, 33 (52), 7433-7443, 2015.
5. Contrasting infection susceptibility of the Japanese macaques and cynomolgus macaques to closely related malaria parasites, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium cynomolgi.

   Shin-Ichiro Tachibana, Satoru Kawai, Yuko Katakai, Hideo Takahashi, Toru Nakade, Yasuhiro Yasutomi, Toshihiro Horii and Kazuyuki Tanabe

   Parasitol Int, 64 (3), 274-281, 2015.
6. Phylogeny and evolution of apicoplasts and apicomplexan parasites.

   Nobuko Arisue and Tetsuo Hashimoto

   Parasitol Int, 64 (3), 254-259, 2015.
7. Plasmodium falciparum: genetic diversity and complexity of infections in an isolated village in western Thailand.

   Kazuyuki Tanabe, Gabriela Zollner, Jefferson A Vaughan, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Benjawan Khuntirat, Hajime Honma, Toshihiro Mita, Takafumi Tsuboi and Russell Coleman

   Parasitol Int, 64 (3), 260-266, 2015.

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Department of Molecular Protozoology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University