News
PRESEntation - June 2021
Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria 2021
Abebe was selected to give a highly commended 3 minute lightning talk on his work on Quantifying P. falciparum parasite diversity across Zambia. Well-done!
Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe
News feature - April 2021
Carpi Team track COVID-19 variants
Congratulations to the lab for this critical contribution, in particular the leadership of Dr. Carpi and the tremendous efforts of undergraduates, Jack and Nicole!
award - april 2021
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations to Jack for receiving the nation’s preeminent scholarship for undergraduates in mathematics, natural sciences / engineering. So well-deserved!
PRESEntation - DECEMBER 2020
Nanopore Community Meeting 2020
Congratulations to Jack, whose work on cDNA sequencing of Bacterial RNA in Anopheles was selected for a poster and 3 minute summary talk!
PRESEntation - November 2020
Future of Malaria Symposium Talk
Abebe gave a great virtual talk for the JHMRI Symposium on his research of P. falciparum population connectivity and antimalaria drug resistance in Zambia
award - November 2020
ASTMH Travel Award
Congratulations to our postdoc, Abebe, for being named a Travel Award Recipient for the ASTMH Conference where he will present a poster on his current research!
publication - october 2020
Plasmodium vivax population genetics
Our postdoc, Abebe, has published a first-author article detailing his development of SNP barcode that captures the diversity of P. vivax populations of Papua New Guinea
PRESEntation - September 2020
Purdue EcoLunch Seminar Talk
Ilinca gave an excellent joint talk on the very important topic of reproducibility and provided guidelines for improving research and removing publication bias
meeting - may 2020
Virtual Lab Meeting during Pandemic
The Carpi Lab continues to work hard during the pandemic, but also found time for a little fun: a virtual lab meeting with a guest from Indraloka Animal Sanctuary!
award - may 2020
Outstanding Sophomore Award
Congratulations to our undergraduate, Jack, for receiving this award for outstanding academic achievement and co-curricular involvement in research!
preprint publication - April 2020
Anopheles coustani genetic diversity
Our PhD student, Ilinca, has published her first manuscript that investigated the genetic diversity of Anopheles coustani in malaria transmission foci, on bioRxiv
award - february 2020
Puskas Memorial Fellowship
Congratulations to our PhD student, Ilinca, for being awarded this prestigious faculty-nominated fellowship for her outstanding achievement and connection to Romania!
seminar - NOVEMBER 2019
University Gondar, Ethiopia
Fabulous and inspiring seminar on the utilization of genomic approaches for infectious disease surveillance by Dr. Carpi in University Gondar, Ethiopia
award - october 2019
Global Health Travel Award
Congratulations to our postdoc, Abebe, for receiving a travel award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Malaria 2019 Keystone Symposium
seminar - october 2019
Purdue University EEB Seminar
Fantastic talk by Abebe on population genomics of P. vivax and P. falciparum malaria parasites to understand parasite connectivity in Papua New Guinea
NEWS - march 2019
Dr. Carpi in Zambia for a project to understand malaria transmission spread and dynamics through comparative analysis of the parasite genomes
Conferences - november 2018
Poster Presentation, ASTMH
Dr. Carpi and the Premonition Microsoft team presenting Metagenomics analysis of Ag1000G for malaria parasite and virus detection at the ASTMH 2018 Conference
Publications - july 2018
A Malaria Mosquito's Motherline
First complete mitogenome from Anopheles funestus could eventually lead to new ways to control malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
News - september 2017
Dr. Carpi’s work on understanding transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum through the lens of genomics is contributing to the fight against malaria
