Angana Mukherjee

Research Assistant Professor
University of Notre Dame

As a recent addition to the P01 project, Angana will work closely with Dr. Ferdig on RPO2, where she will design and oversee in vitro phenotypic assays for parents and progenies, supervise lab execution, and manage training. Additionally, she will support Core B and RPO3, providing guidance on conditional inactivation techniques, such as the knocksideways method, along with necessary reagents and training as needed. Currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, she has dedicated over a decade to Plasmodium research, addressing topics from clinical artemisinin and partner drug resistance to fundamental parasite biology, including hemoglobin trafficking, digestion, and phosphoinositide metabolism. Her contributions include demonstrating that artemisinin resistance can emerge independently of pfkelch13 mutations. Previously, her work on Leishmania focused on drug resistance mechanisms, DNA repair, and oxidative stress. She is eager to bring this expertise to the P01 team in pursuit of our shared research goals.