Dr Sunil Kumar Dogga

Postdoctoral Fellow

As a Postdoctoral fellow in the Lawniczak group, I use scRNA-seq methodologies to dissect the infectious reservoir for malaria in natural settings.

Research Interest

I am interested in understanding Plasmodium falciparum transmission dynamics using single-cell technologies. In this direction, I evaluate the reservoir of natural infections in a malaria-endemic site in Mali. My project aims to explore within-host and between-host diversity of sexual and asexual populations between symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers.

Prior to joining the Wellcome Sanger Institute, I did my PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre at the University of Geneva. I worked on the Apicomplexan relative, Toxoplasma gondii, studying several aspects of the parasite’s cell biology, focussing on the role of two major post-translational modifications, palmitoylation and proteolytic processing.

My timeline

• Started work as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Started PostDoc in laboratory of Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre at University of Geneva

• Awarded PhD (University of Geneva)

• Started PhD in laboratory of Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre at University of Geneva

• Visiting Researcher at EMBL Heidelberg in laboratory of Dr. Jonas Ries (Cell Biology and Biophysics unit)

• MSc at EPFL (Switzerland)

• B.Tech in Biotechnology from IIT Madras, India