Chi-Min Ho
Research in the Ho Lab focuses on understanding how membrane protein complexes mediate host-pathogen interactions in blood-stage malaria parasites, using single-particle cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) and in situ cryo electron tomography (cryoET). Dr. Chi-Min Ho earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, after which she joined the lab of Professor Robert Stroud at the University of California, San Francisco and worked on membrane protein structure determination. In 2011 she was recruited to the Infectious Diseases Division at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Emeryville, CA, 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 the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019, under the mentorship of Professor Hong Zhou. She joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University in January 2020. Her lab 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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