Robert Leon Summers

Biography

Publications

• PfApiAT2 is a proline transporter essential for the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum by the mosquito vector.

  Khushu M, Kissel RC, Kauffman J, Taccheri C, Singh N, Summers RL, Plant LD, Wirth DF, Catteruccia F, Bopp S. bioRxiv 2026 Jan 20

  PMID: 41648139

• The plasmepsin-piperaquine paradox persists in Plasmodium falciparum.

  Walsh B, Summers RL, Rangel GW, Hagenah LM, Mok S, Llinás M, Fidock DA, Wirth DF, Bopp S. PLoS Pathog 2025

  PMID: 40720544

• Revisiting the Plasmodium falciparum druggable genome using predicted structures and data mining.

  Godinez-Macias KP, Chen D, Wallis JL, Siegel MG, Adam A, Bopp S, Carolino K, Coulson LB, Durst G, Thathy V, Esherick L, Farringer MA, Flannery EL, Forte B, Liu T, Godoy Magalhaes L, Gupta AK, Istvan ES, Jiang T, Kumpornsin K, Lobb K, McLean KJ, Moura IMR, Okombo J, Payne NC, Plater A, Rao SPS, Siqueira-Neto JL, Somsen BA, Summers RL, Zhang R, Gilson MK, Gamo FJ, Campo B, Baragaña B, Duffy J, Gilbert IH, Lukens AK, Dechering KJ, Niles JC, McNamara CW, Cheng X, Birkholtz LM, Bronkhorst AW, Fidock DA, Wirth DF, Goldberg DE, Lee MCS, Winzeler EA. NPJ Drug Discov 2026

  PMID: 40066064

• Systematic in vitro evolution in Plasmodium falciparum reveals key determinants of drug resistance.

  Luth MR, Godinez-Macias KP, Chen D, Okombo J, Thathy V, Cheng X, Daggupati S, Davies H, Dhingra SK, Economy JM, Edgar RCS, Gomez-Lorenzo MG, Istvan ES, Jado JC, LaMonte GM, Melillo B, Mok S, Narwal SK, Ndiaye T, Ottilie S, Palomo Diaz S, Park H, Peña S, Rocamora F, Sakata-Kato T, Small-Saunders JL, Summers RL, Tumwebaze PK, Vanaerschot M, Xia G, Yeo T, You A, Gamo FJ, Goldberg DE, Lee MCS, McNamara CW, Ndiaye D, Rosenthal PJ, Schreiber SL, Serra G, De Siqueira-Neto JL, Skinner-Adams TS, Uhlemann AC, Kato N, Lukens AK, Wirth DF, Fidock DA, Winzeler EA. Science 2024 11 29

  PMID: 39607932

• Revisiting the Plasmodium falciparum druggable genome using predicted structures and data mining.

  Godinez-Macias KP, Chen D, Wallis JL, Siegel MG, Adam A, Bopp S, Carolino K, Coulson LB, Durst G, Thathy V, Esherick L, Farringer MA, Flannery EL, Forte B, Liu T, Magalhaes LG, Gupta AK, Istvan ES, Jiang T, Kumpornsin K, Lobb K, McLean K, Moura IMR, Okombo J, Payne NC, Plater A, Rao SPS, Siqueira-Neto JL, Somsen BA, Summers RL, Zhang R, Gilson MK, Gamo FJ, Campo B, Baragaña B, Duffy J, Gilbert IH, Lukens AK, Dechering KJ, Niles JC, McNamara CW, Cheng X, Birkholtz LM, Bronkhorst AW, Fidock DA, Wirth DF, Goldberg DE, Lee MCS, Winzeler EA. Res Sq 2024 Nov 26

  PMID: 39649165