SPRING 2024

Congrats to Dr. Chris Mansfield for successfully defending his dissertation!

Congrats to Porter Petruzziello, Isabel Colón and Xeno Hu on receiving a URS award!

Emily is honored to be selected as the 2024 Crano Memorial Lecturer.

Chris Mansfield’s paper linking Plasmodium heat shock protein 90 to proteasome stability is accepted to Cell Chemical Biology. Thankful for the outstanding collaborative team that included the Fitzgerald lab (Duke), Leahy lab (University of South Florida), Haystead lab (Duke) and Kafsack lab (Weill Cornell Medicine). Congrats all!

Erin Schroeder’s paper on the manipulation of the host vesicular trafficking network by apicomplexan parasites is accepted to mSphere. Congrats!

FALL 2023

Gaini Ibrasheva joins the lab from the Chemistry Graduate Program. Welcome!

Congrats to Dr. Aaron Keeler for successfully defending his dissertation!

Congrats to Elizabeth Boger and Porter Petruzziello on receiving a URS award!

Former Derbyshire lab undergraduate Meg Shieh received the Pfizer Emergent Leader Award! Congrats Meg!!

Aaron Keeler is selected for a Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship. Congrats!

The labs collaborative work targeting 5 Plasmodium kinases with the Drewry lab (UNC) and Luceome Biotechnologies is published in ACS Med Chem Lett!