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Dr. Chi-Min Ho earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, then worked on membrane protein structure determination in Professor Robert Stroud’s group at UCSF. In 2011 she joined the Infectious Diseases Division at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, where she worked for three years in small molecule drug discovery for infectious diseases before moving on to pursue a doctoral degree in 2014. She completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology at UCLA in 2019 under the mentorship of Professor Hong Zhou and joined the Faculty in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University in January 2020. Research in the Ho Lab focuses on understanding how malaria parasites co-opt and remodel membranes at the host-pathogen interface. Her team develops and applies novel approaches that combine cutting-edge techniques in malaria parasite gene-editing, single-particle cryoEM, and in situ cryoET to overcome longstanding barriers to high resolution structural study in malaria parasites.

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