Deepali Ravel

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Biography

Deepali Ravel is a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she serves as Director of Education for the cross-school Graduate Program in Bacteriology and Infectious Diseases Consortium.

Deepali’s core interest is in teaching science as a tool for promoting health equity and justice. In her graduate education role, she teaches microbiology and infectious diseases courses, designs and evaluates curriculum, advises students, and leads diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives related to course content and department culture. Deepali is also committed to broadening access to science careers for youth from communities that face health injustices and has worked closely with local programs like the HMS-based Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program as well as national initiatives like the CDC Science Ambassador Fellows program.

Education and Training

• BS, Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• PhD, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
  Harvard University

Publications

• Applying Faster R-CNN for Object Detection on Malaria Images.

  Hung J, Lopes SCP, Nery OA, Nosten F, Ferreira MU, Duraisingh MT, Marti M, Ravel D, Rangel G, Malleret B, Lacerda MVG, Rénia L, Costa FTM, Carpenter AE. Conf Comput Vis Pattern Recognit Workshops 2017

• Keras R-CNN: library for cell detection in biological images using deep neural networks.

  Hung J, Goodman A, Ravel D, Lopes SCP, Rangel GW, Nery OA, Malleret B, Nosten F, Lacerda MVG, Ferreira MU, Rénia L, Duraisingh MT, Costa FTM, Marti M, Carpenter AE. BMC Bioinformatics 2020 Jul 11

• Probing Plasmodium falciparum sexual commitment at the single-cell level.

  Brancucci NMB, De Niz M, Straub TJ, Ravel D, Sollelis L, Birren BW, Voss TS, Neafsey DE, Marti M. Wellcome Open Res 2025

• Lysophosphatidylcholine Regulates Sexual Stage Differentiation in the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

  Brancucci NMB, Gerdt JP, Wang C, De Niz M, Philip N, Adapa SR, Zhang M, Hitz E, Niederwieser I, Boltryk SD, Laffitte MC, Clark MA, Grüring C, Ravel D, Blancke Soares A, Demas A, Bopp S, Rubio-Ruiz B, Conejo-Garcia A, Wirth DF, Gendaszewska-Darmach E, Duraisingh MT, Adams JH, Voss TS, Waters AP, Jiang RHY, Clardy J, Marti M. Cell 2017 Dec 14

• Infected erythrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular function via regulatory Ago2-miRNA complexes in malaria.

  Mantel PY, Hjelmqvist D, Walch M, Kharoubi-Hess S, Nilsson S, Ravel D, Ribeiro M, Grüring C, Ma S, Padmanabhan P, Trachtenberg A, Ankarklev J, Brancucci NM, Huttenhower C, Duraisingh MT, Ghiran I, Kuo WP, Filgueira L, Martinelli R, Marti M. Nat Commun 2016 10 10