The Williamson Lab

The Laboratory of Dr. Kim C. Williamson is located in the new Quinlan Life Sciences Education and Research Center at Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus, eight miles north of the Chicago Loop. Our work focuses on the sexual/mosquito stages of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, that causes the most virulent form of human malaria. We use bioinformatics coupled with molecular approaches, such as microarray analysis, transfection and targeted-gene disruption, to characterize sexual stage development on the molecular level.