Dyann Wirth
American immunologist
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursWirth is one of the world's leading malariologists, dealing with how the genus Plasmodium has evolved in terms of population biology, drug resistance, and antigenicity. The Wirth laboratory combines the expertise of the Harvard School of Public Health, the Broad Institute, and international collaborators for malaria research and training in public health.
Education and career
Wirth received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978.
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Research
Wirth's lab identified the cytochrome B gene of the avian malaria species Plasmodium gallinaceum in 1989, as genetic study of the parasite was in its early days. In 1993 the labs of Wirth and Kamini Nirmala Mendis published the first successful use of the electroporation method to insert new DNA sequence into a malaria cell (also Plasmodium gallinaceum).