Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are two parasites that cause most malaria cases worldwide. P. vivax is chronically understudied compared to P. falciparum, and significant aspects of its biology remain a mystery. ...

The ability to undergo plastic and evolutionary change in adaptive traits is key for plant survival under future climate change. Both processes require genetic variation in adaptive traits within populations. Thus, for my ...

Chromatin is spatially organized across length scales, from DNA base pairs to chromosomes to tissues. This organization, which is encompassed in the term epigenomics, is thought to regulate gene expression and control ...

Natural history collections are invaluable libraries of Earth’s biodiversity. Museum specimens frequently span temporal, geographic, and taxonomic scales and afford unparalleled insights into environmental, organismal, and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death globally. Understanding the population dynamics and evolution of TB’s causative agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) over short time-scales in-host (micro-evolution) ...

Somatic mutations, present in a subset of cells in the body, provide a unique opportunity for mechanistic understanding of disease. Somatic mutations represent natural experiments in humans akin to conditional transgenic ...