School of Infection & Immunity

Dr Deepak Kumar Purusothaman

  • Research Associate (Virology)

telephone: 01413307719
email: DeepakKumar.Purusothaman@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

464 Bearsden Road, Bearsden, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, G61 1QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2026

Adam, Abdelhakeem Ismail, Poulton, Beth Crawford ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Bilgo, Etienne, Purusothaman, Deepak Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Parry, Ewan R. S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Diabaté, Abdoulaye, Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Sare, Issiaka, Sinkins, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 and Ant, Thomas H. (2026) Laboratory An. gambiae s.l. mosquito colonies show sustained high transmission of Microsporidia sp. MB and a small decrease in egg viability. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, (Accepted for Publication)

Crawford Poulton, Beth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Purusothaman, Deepak Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Adam, Abdelhakeem Ismail, Saré, Issiaka, Parry, Ewan R.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Ant, Thomas H., Bilgo, Etienne, Diabaté, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2026) Laboratory An. gambiae s.l. mosquito colonies show sustained high transmission of Microsporidia sp. MB and a small fecundity cost. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707712)

Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Poulton, Beth C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Adam, Abdelhakeem I., Parry, Ewan R.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Saré, Issiaka, Diabaté, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2026) Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Microsporidia sp. MB, a microsporidian symbiont of Anopheles coluzzii isolated from Burkina Faso. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707486)

2025

Parry, E. R.S. et al. (2025) Imaging the lifecycle of Microsporidia sp. MB in Anopheles coluzzii from western Burkina Faso reveals octosporogony. mSphere, 10(6), e00851-24. (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00851-24) (PMID:40401914) (PMCID:PMC12188704)

2024

Anderson, M. A. E. et al. (2024) A multiplexed, confinable CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive can propagate in caged Aedes aegypti populations. Nature Communications, 15, 729. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-44956-2) (PMID:38272895) (PMCID:PMC10810878)

2023

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Feng, Xuechun, Okamoto, Emily M., Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Leftwich, Philip T., Alphey, Luke and Gantz, Valentino M. (2023) CRISPR-based gene drives generate super-Mendelian inheritance in the disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus. Nature Communications, 14, 7561. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41834-1) (PMID:37985762) (PMCID:PMC10662442)

2022

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Xu, Xuejiao, Anderson, Michelle, Carabajal Paladino, Leonela Z., Purusothaman, Deepak ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Norman, Victoria C., Reitmayer, Christine M., You, Minsheng and Alphey, Luke (2022) Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(46), 2206025119. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2206025119) (PMID:36343250) (PMCID:PMC9674220)

Xin De Ang, Joshua, Nevard, Katherine, Ireland, Rebekah, Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Verkuijl, Sebald A. N., Shackleford, Lewis, Gonzalez, Estela, Anderson, Michelle A. E. and Alphey, Luke (2022) Considerations for homology-based DNA repair in mosquitoes: impact of sequence heterology and donor template source. PLoS Genetics, 18(2), e1010060. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010060) (PMID:35180218) (PMCID:PMC8893643)

2021

Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Shackleford, Lewis, Anderson, Michelle A. E., Harvey-Samuel, Tim and Alphey, Luke (2021) CRISPR/Cas-9 mediated knock-in by homology dependent repair in the West Nile Virus vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14964. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94065-z) (PMID:34294769) (PMCID:PMC8298393)

This list was generated on Sat Mar 21 02:08:48 2026 GMT.
Jump to: Articles
Number of items: 9.

Articles

Adam, Abdelhakeem Ismail, Poulton, Beth Crawford ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Bilgo, Etienne, Purusothaman, Deepak Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Parry, Ewan R. S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Diabaté, Abdoulaye, Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Sare, Issiaka, Sinkins, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 and Ant, Thomas H. (2026) Laboratory An. gambiae s.l. mosquito colonies show sustained high transmission of Microsporidia sp. MB and a small decrease in egg viability. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, (Accepted for Publication)

Crawford Poulton, Beth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Purusothaman, Deepak Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Adam, Abdelhakeem Ismail, Saré, Issiaka, Parry, Ewan R.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Ant, Thomas H., Bilgo, Etienne, Diabaté, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2026) Laboratory An. gambiae s.l. mosquito colonies show sustained high transmission of Microsporidia sp. MB and a small fecundity cost. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707712)

Pevsner, Roland ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3988-9583, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Poulton, Beth C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-5697, Adam, Abdelhakeem I., Parry, Ewan R.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-0365, Saré, Issiaka, Diabaté, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2026) Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Microsporidia sp. MB, a microsporidian symbiont of Anopheles coluzzii isolated from Burkina Faso. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707486)

Parry, E. R.S. et al. (2025) Imaging the lifecycle of Microsporidia sp. MB in Anopheles coluzzii from western Burkina Faso reveals octosporogony. mSphere, 10(6), e00851-24. (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00851-24) (PMID:40401914) (PMCID:PMC12188704)

Anderson, M. A. E. et al. (2024) A multiplexed, confinable CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive can propagate in caged Aedes aegypti populations. Nature Communications, 15, 729. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-44956-2) (PMID:38272895) (PMCID:PMC10810878)

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Feng, Xuechun, Okamoto, Emily M., Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Leftwich, Philip T., Alphey, Luke and Gantz, Valentino M. (2023) CRISPR-based gene drives generate super-Mendelian inheritance in the disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus. Nature Communications, 14, 7561. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41834-1) (PMID:37985762) (PMCID:PMC10662442)

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Xu, Xuejiao, Anderson, Michelle, Carabajal Paladino, Leonela Z., Purusothaman, Deepak ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Norman, Victoria C., Reitmayer, Christine M., You, Minsheng and Alphey, Luke (2022) Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(46), 2206025119. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2206025119) (PMID:36343250) (PMCID:PMC9674220)

Xin De Ang, Joshua, Nevard, Katherine, Ireland, Rebekah, Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Verkuijl, Sebald A. N., Shackleford, Lewis, Gonzalez, Estela, Anderson, Michelle A. E. and Alphey, Luke (2022) Considerations for homology-based DNA repair in mosquitoes: impact of sequence heterology and donor template source. PLoS Genetics, 18(2), e1010060. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010060) (PMID:35180218) (PMCID:PMC8893643)

Purusothaman, Deepak-Kumar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-6519, Shackleford, Lewis, Anderson, Michelle A. E., Harvey-Samuel, Tim and Alphey, Luke (2021) CRISPR/Cas-9 mediated knock-in by homology dependent repair in the West Nile Virus vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14964. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94065-z) (PMID:34294769) (PMCID:PMC8298393)

This list was generated on Sat Mar 21 02:08:48 2026 GMT.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Further development of the LAMP-lite system for field applications
    Medical Research Council
    2025 - 2026