Professor

Brendan Crabb

AC FAA FAHMS

Brendan Crabb
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Brendan Crabb has made several discoveries of significance about human malaria. His team discovered the malaria translocon, a protein machine that allows the translocation of malaria proteins into its host cell, a highly vulnerable point in the parasite’s life cycle. He was the first to provide an order for the myriad of receptor-ligand interactions that mediate red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites. He is also a pioneer of genetic technologies in human malaria, describing the first gene knockout in this organism, and has made fundamental discoveries in malaria pathogenesis using these and other approaches.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310108 Protein Trafficking
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY
    • 310702 Infectious Agents
    • 310706 Virology
    • 310799 Microbiology not elsewhere classified
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3207 MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
    • 320704 Medical Parasitology
  • 3299 OTHER MEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Infection
  • Malaria
  • Molecular Parasitology
  • Public Health
  • Virology

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