Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, March 6, 2026
Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute
Parasite Persistence, Resilience, and Innovation
The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture and WRR Sponsored Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Male, Frances, et al. “Perforation of the host cell plasma membrane during Toxoplasma invasion requires rhoptry exocytosis.” EMBO reports 26.20 (2025): 5027.
Rimple, Patrick A., et al. “Metabolic adaptability and nutrient scavenging in Toxoplasma gondii: insights from ingestion pathway-deficient mutants.” mSphere 10.4 (2025): e01011-24.
Herneisen, Alice L., and Sebastian Lourido. “Finding the brakes on the Toxoplasma life cycle.” Trends in Parasitology (2025).
Eberhard, Julia N., et al. “Immune targeting and host-protective effects of the latent stage of Toxoplasma gondii.” Nature Microbiology (2025): 1-14.
Schwarz, Dominic, and Sebastian Lourido. “The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites.” Current opinion in microbiology 76 (2023): 102395.
