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Thomas Lavstsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Virology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Complement system in diseases, HIV Research and Treatment, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research.

Recent publications by Thomas Lavstsen include:

  • Increased circulation time of Plasmodium falciparum underlies persistent asymptomatic infection in the dry season, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Cryo-EM reveals the architecture of placental malaria VAR2CSA and provides molecular insight into chondroitin sulfate binding, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Longitudinal analysis of naturally acquired PfEMP1 CIDR domain variant antibodies identifies associations with malaria protection, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Common virulence gene expression in adult first-time infected malaria patients and severe cases, 2021, eLife
  • Broadly inhibitory antibodies to severe malaria virulence proteins, 2024, Nature

Frequent collaborators include Louise Turner, Rasmus W. Jensen, Thor G. Theander, Thomas D. Otto, and Sai Sundar Rajan Raghavan. Their joint research has contributed to a better understanding of malaria and related infectious diseases.

Thomas Lavstsen publishes regularly in prominent scientific journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Pathogens, eLife, Nature Medicine, and Nature Communications, reflecting a broad dissemination of their research findings.

Best Publications

  • Selective upregulation of a single distinctly structured var gene in chondroitin sulphate A-adhering Plasmodium falciparum involved in pregnancy-associated malaria

    Ali Salanti;Trine Staalsoe;Thomas Lavstsen;Anja T. R. Jensen

  • Evidence for the involvement of VAR2CSA in pregnancy-associated malaria.

    Ali Salanti;Madeleine Dahlbäck;Madeleine Dahlbäck;Louise Turner;Louise Turner;Morten A. Nielsen;Morten A. Nielsen

  • Severe malaria is associated with parasite binding to endothelial protein C receptor

    Louise Turner;Thomas Lavstsen;Sanne S. Berger;Christian W. Wang

  • Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 diversity in seven genomes - divide and conquer

    Thomas Salhøj Rask;Thomas Salhøj Rask;Daniel Aaen Hansen;Thor G. Theander;Anders Gorm Pedersen

  • Sub-grouping of Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 var genes based on sequence analysis of coding and non-coding regions.

    Thomas Lavstsen;Ali Salanti;Anja T R Jensen;David E Arnot

  • Plasmodium falciparum associated with severe childhood malaria preferentially expresses PfEMP1 encoded by group A var genes.

    Anja T.R. Jensen;Pamela Magistrado;Sarah Sharp;Louise Joergensen

  • Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domain cassettes 8 and 13 are associated with severe malaria in children

    Thomas Lavstsen;Louise Turner;Fredy Saguti;Pamela Magistrado;Pamela Magistrado

  • PfSETvs methylation of histone H3K36 represses virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum

    Lubin Jiang;Jianbing Mu;Qingfeng Zhang;Qingfeng Zhang;Qingfeng Zhang;Ting Ni

  • Differential Expression of var Gene Groups Is Associated with Morbidity Caused by Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Tanzanian Children

    Matthias Rottmann;Thomas Lavstsen;Joseph Paschal Mugasa;Mirjam Kaestli

  • Malaria's deadly grip: cytoadhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes.

    Joseph D. Smith;Joseph D. Smith;J. Alexandra Rowe;Matthew K. Higgins;Thomas Lavstsen;Thomas Lavstsen

  • Structure-Guided Identification of a Family of Dual Receptor-Binding PfEMP1 that Is Associated with Cerebral Malaria

    Frank Lennartz;Yvonne Adams;Anja Bengtsson;Anja Bengtsson;Rebecca W. Olsen;Rebecca W. Olsen

  • The structural basis for CD36 binding by the malaria parasite.

    Fu-Lien Hsieh;Louise Turner;Jani Reddy Bolla;Carol V. Robinson

  • Structural Conservation Despite Huge Sequence Diversity Allows EPCR Binding by the PfEMP1 Family Implicated in Severe Childhood Malaria

    Clinton K.Y. Lau;Louise Turner;Jakob S. Jespersen;Edward D. Lowe

  • Immune evasion of Plasmodium falciparum by RIFIN via inhibitory receptors

    Fumiji Saito;Kouyuki Hirayasu;Takeshi Satoh;Christian W. Wang;Christian W. Wang

  • Surface Co-Expression of Two Different PfEMP1 Antigens on Single Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes Facilitates Binding to ICAM1 and PECAM1

    Louise Joergensen;Dominique C. Bengtsson;Anja Bengtsson;Elena Ronander

  • Sequential, Ordered Acquisition of Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 1 Domains

    Gerald K. K. Cham;Louise Turner;John Lusingu;Lasse Vestergaard

  • Increased circulation time of Plasmodium falciparum underlies persistent asymptomatic infection in the dry season.

    Carolina M. Andrade;Hannah Fleckenstein;Richard Thomson-Luque;Safiatou Doumbo

  • Expression of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 in experimentally infected humans

    Thomas Lavstsen;Pamela Magistrado;Cornelus C Hermsen;Ali Salanti

  • Cerebral malaria is associated with differential cytoadherence to brain endothelial cells

    Janet Storm;Janet Storm;Janet Storm;Jakob S Jespersen;Karl B Seydel;Karl B Seydel;Tadge Szestak

  • Plasmodium falciparum var genes expressed in children with severe malaria encode CIDRα1 domains.

    Jakob S. Jespersen;Christian W. Wang;Sixbert I. Mkumbaye;Daniel T R Minja

Frequent Co-Authors

Thor G. Theander
Thor G. Theander University of Copenhagen
John Lusingu
John Lusingu University of Copenhagen
Lars Hviid
Lars Hviid University of Copenhagen
Ali Salanti
Ali Salanti Copenhagen University Hospital
Morten Nielsen
Morten Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Joseph D. Smith
Joseph D. Smith University of Washington
Thomas D. Otto
Thomas D. Otto University of Glasgow
Colin J. Sutherland
Colin J. Sutherland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Robert W. Sauerwein
Robert W. Sauerwein Radboud University
Iris Bruchhaus
Iris Bruchhaus Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine

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