Nutpakal Ketprasit

Nutpakal Ketprasit is a final-year PhD candidate in the Tilley Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is deeply passionate about malaria research, especially the biology of the parasites and antimalarial development. His PhD focuses on validating Plasmodium aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as novel antimalaria targets using various techniques in cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology. 
 
I’m thrilled to rejoin the MESA Correspondents team to cover the Molecular Approach to Malaria Conference 2024. This enables me to leverage my knowledge and experience to share current advancements in malaria research with our community.