Dr. Nicolas Brancucci, Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Swiss TPH Person of Trust
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Thommen B.T, Dziekan J.M, Achcar F, Tjia S, Passecker A, Buczak K, Gumpp C, Schmidt A, Rottmann M, GrĂ¼ring C, Marti M, Bozdech Z, Brancucci N.M.B. Genetic validation of PfFKBP35 as an antimalarial drug target. eLife. 2023;12(RP86975). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.86975
Thommen B.T, Passecker A, Buser T, Hitz E, Voss T.S, Brancucci N.M.B. Revisiting the effect of pharmaceuticals on transmission stage formation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022;12:802341. DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.802341
Brancucci N.M.B, De Niz M, Straub T.J, Ravel D, Sollelis L, Birren B.W, Voss T.S, Neafsey D.E, Marti M. Probing Plasmodium falciparum sexual commitment at the single-cell level. Wellcome Open Res. 2018;3:70. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14645.3
Brancucci N.M.B, Gerdt J.P, Wang C, De Niz M, Philip N, Adapa S.R, Zhang M, Hitz E, Niederwieser I, Boltryk S.D, Laffitte M.C, Clark M.A, Gruring C, Ravel D, Blancke Soares A, Demas A, Bopp S, Rubio-Ruiz B, Conejo-Garcia A, Wirth D.F, Gendaszewska-Darmach E, Duraisingh M.T, Adams J.H, Voss T.S, Waters A.P, Jiang R.H.Y, Clardy J, Marti M. Lysophosphatidylcholine regulates sexual stage differentiation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Cell. 2017;171(7):1532-1544 e15. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.10.020
Brancucci N.M, Goldowitz I, Buchholz K, Werling K, Marti M. An assay to probe Plasmodium falciparum growth, transmission stage formation and early gametocyte development. Nat Protoc. 2015;10(8):1131-42. DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.072
Brancucci N.M, Bertschi N.L, Zhu L, Niederwieser I, Chin W.H, Wampfler R, Freymond C, Rottmann M, Felger I, Bozdech Z, Voss T.S. Heterochromatin protein 1 secures survival and transmission of malaria parasites. Cell Host Microbe. 2014;16(2):165-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.07.004