I was appointed as a Lecturer at the School of Life Sciences at Keele University in October 2007. I graduated with a BSc Honours from the University of Salford before embarking on a research career driven by my interest in the role of the vascular endothelium in pathology. In 2002, I turned my focus on the role of the endothelium in Malaria pathogenesis and joined Professor Alister Craig’s group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Here, I investigated mechanisms of malarial cytoadhesion to the endothelium in vitro, under static and also under laminar flow conditions, leading to a number of successful collaborations.

Maier AG, Rug M, O'Neill MT, Chakravorty SJ, Szestak T, Chesson J, Wu Y, Hughes K, Coppel RL, Newbold C, Beeson JG, Craig AG, Crabb BS, Cowman AF. Exported proteins required for virulence and rigidity of Plasmodium falciparium-infected human erythrocytes. CELL, vol. 134, 48-61. doi> Grab DJ, Chakravorty SJ, van der Heyde H, Stins MF. 2011. How can microbial interactions with the blood-brain barrier modulate astroglial and neuronal function?. Cell Microbiol, vol. 13(10), 1470-1478. link> doi> Chakravorty SJ, Hughes KR, Craig AG. 2008. Host response to cytoadherence in Plasmodium falciparum. Biochem Soc Trans, vol. 36(Pt 2), 221-228. link> doi> Jenkins N, Wu Y, Chakravorty S, Kai O, Marsh K, Craig A. 2008. Plasmodium falciparum Icam-1-based cytoadherence-related signalling in endothelical cells. JOURNAL OF INFECTION, vol. 56(4), 299. link> doi> Bridges DJ, Chakravorty SJ, Bunn J, O'Donnell J, Grau GE, de laat B, van Mourik JA, Craig A. 2008. The role of von Willebrand factor in malaria pathogenesis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY (vol. 38, p. S65). link>