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Sabrina Absalon

Medicine · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2007Rising activity
Malaria Research and ControlMosquito-borne diseases and controlTrypanosoma species research and implicationsVector-borne infectious diseasesInvertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms

Publications

66

Citations

1,574

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
AI-generated

Sabrina Absalon studies malaria parasites (Plasmodium), focusing on their cell biology as they replicate inside host cells and develop within mosquitoes. Much of the work uses advanced imaging methods, such as expansion microscopy and cryo-electron tomography, to examine parasite structures like the nucleus, cell-division machinery, and organelles. The research also connects to practical questions such as how parasites become resistant to antimalarial drugs and how they are transmitted between hosts and mosquitoes.

Malaria parasite (Plasmodium) cell biologyAdvanced microscopy and imaging methodsParasite cell division and organelle inheritanceAntimalarial drug resistance mechanismsHost-to-mosquito transmission biology

Publication activity grew sharply from around 2020 onward, reaching roughly a dozen or more papers per year since 2023.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through February 2031 — about 4 years of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNIH R35GM161216through Feb 2031 · $396k awarded

    Defining Centriolar Plaque Architecture and Function Across Eukaryotic Diversity Using Expansion Microscopy and Proteomics

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 4,491 mid career Medicine PIs within our index
Citations: 1,574cohort median 614
h-index: 18cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 9.4cohort median 3.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~9 · 21% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 19 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 9.4/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication18192020: 4 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 16 publications16232024: 12 publications242025: 13 publications252026: 3 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 2 collaborators at the same institution2024: 2 collaborators at the same institution2025: 3 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×15
  • Nature Communications×5
  • mSphere×4
  • Trends in Parasitology×3
  • Research Square×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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