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Home » Speakers » Sebastian Lourido

Sebastian Lourido

Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Sebastian Lourido is a faculty member at the Whitehead Institute and an assistant professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His lab uses Toxoplasma gondii as a model to study the underlying mechanisms of how the apicomplexan phylum of parasites infect and spread diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis.

As an undergraduate student at Tulane University, Lourido double majored in Cell & Molecular Biology and Studio Art.  Realizing that scientific research allowed him to stretch the same creative muscles as art, he ultimately decided to pursue a career in biology. Lourido received his PhD in microbiology from Washington University in St. Louis where he worked in Dr. David Sibley’s lab. In 2012, he was offered the opportunity to establish a lab and conduct independent research at the Whitehead Institute in lieu of a traditional postdoctoral fellowship. A year later, he won the NIH director’s early independence award in 2013. In early 2017, he became the 28th individual to be named a Whitehead Institute faculty member. Over the years, Lourido has maintained his interest in art and finds ways to intertwine his art background into his science.

Learn more about the Lourido lab here

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Toxoplasma gondii: A Model Apicomplexan

Sebastian Lourido explains why Toxoplasma gondii is an excellent system to study Apicomplexa, the phylum that includes the parasites that cause toxoplasmosis, malaria, and cryptosporidiosis. (Talk recorded in November 2017)

  • Part 1: Toxoplasma gondii: A Model Apicomplexan
    Part 1: Toxoplasma gondii: A Model Apicomplexan
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 29:52
  • Part 2: Genetic Approaches to Study Toxoplasma gondii
    Part 2: Genetic Approaches to Study Toxoplasma gondii
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 28:58

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