Poy (Tossapol) Pholcharee

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Poy joined the lab in the summer of 2021 as a D.Phil. student to continue the second half of his joint Ph.D./D.Phil. Skaggs-Oxford program between the University of Oxford and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, graduating at the end of 2023.

At the Scripps Research Institute, he worked with Prof. Ian Wilson and used X-ray crystallography to examine antibody responses against the circumsporozoite protein of P. falciparum, a major parasite that causes malaria in humans. Before his Ph.D. course, he graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, USA with a B.A. degree in biology and mathematics. He also has experience working on the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans in the lab at Bowdoin.

After graduation, Poy moved back to the US to start a postdoctoral position. 

Publications while in the Higgins lab:

Moskovitz, R.*, Pholcharee, T.*, DonVito, S.M., Guloglu, B., Lowe, E., Mohring, F., Moon, R.W.  and Higgins, M.K. (2023) Structural basis for DARC binding in reticulocyte invasion by Plasmodium vivax. Nature Communications 14 3637