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Ulrika Morris completed a in master in science in Parasitology in 2009/06/30 at the University of Glasgow. She then completed her PhD in Medical Sciences (Thesis title: Molecular Methods in Malaria Control in the Era of Malaria Elimination) on 2015/03/15 at Karolinska Institutet. Ulrika has published 21 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals. She been an organiser for journal clubs and world malaria day seminars at the Centre for Malaria Research at Karolinska Institutet. She has co-supervised 1 PhD thesis, supervised 3 and co-supervised 6 MSc dissertations, and supervised 1 BSc thesis. He research is in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Natural sciences with emphasis on Molecular Biology. In her CV the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Africa; Malaria; Malaria control and Elimination; Covid-19; Low resource setting; Prevalence; Efficacy; In-Vivo selection; Combination therapy; Artemether lumefantrine; Amodiaquine; Chloroquine Resistance; Mutations; Markers; resistance; Pfmdr1; Pfcrt; Real-Time PCR; Mixed infections; Blood spots. Ulrika recently started a position as research coordinator in the Biobank Research Unit at Umeå University.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Ulrika Morris

Nomes de citação

  • Morris, Ulrika

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
6015-4ACD-0F37
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4734-5754

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • Ulrika_morris@yahoo.se (Pessoal)

Telefones

Telemóvel
  • (+46) 0735782353 (Pessoal)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Ciências da Saúde - Doenças Infeciosas
  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Molecular
  • Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Ciências da Saúde - Epidemiologia

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês (Idioma materno)
Sueco (Idioma materno)
Português Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador elementar (A2)
Suaili (genérico) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2016/09/01 - 2021/03/31
Concluído
 Post-doctoral researcher, Karolinska Institutet at Centre for Malaria research, Department of Molecular, Tumor and Cell Biology (Pós-doutoramento)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2015/04/01 - 2016/09/15
Concluído
 Post-doctoral researcher, Positioned at the Zanzibar Malaria Research Unit Karolinska Institutet, Zanzibar, Tanzania (Pós-doutoramento)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2015/03/15
Concluído
 PhD in Medical Sciences (Doutoramento)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
"Molecular methods in malaria control in the era of malaria pre-elimination." (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2004/09/01 - 2009/06/30
Concluído
 Master in Science in Parasitology (Mestrado integrado)
Especialização em Parasitology
University of Glasgow, Reino Unido
"Caveats in bisulfite genomic sequencing when studying DNA methylation in human papillomavirus. " (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2022/03/01 - Atual Investigador (Investigação) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2015/04/01 - 2022/01/31 Investigador (Investigação) Karolinska Institutet, Suécia

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2021/10/04 - Atual Research coordinator Umeå Universitet, Suécia
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2020/10 - 2022/10 Assessing the selection of molecular markers of drug resistance after treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections with artesunate-pyronaridine (Pyramax®)
2020-01340
 Karolinska Institutet
2018/11 - 2020/10 Does mass drug administration for malaria elimination result in the selection of drug resistant parasites?
2018-01515
 Karolinska Institutet
2018/04 - 2018/04 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan African Malaria Conference, Senegal
RSh2017-0067
 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
2014/07 - 2015/04 Betydelsen av molekylära metoder föra att utrota malaria på Zanzibar
LA2014-0287
 Stiftelsen Sigurd And Elsa Goljes Minne
2013/07 - 2014/04 Betydelsen av molekylära metoder föra att utrota malaria på Zanzibar
LA2013-0256
 Stiftelsen Sigurd And Elsa Goljes Minne
2012/07 - 2013/04 Betydelsen av molekylära metoder föra att utrota malaria på Zanzibar
LA2012-0092
 Stiftelsen Sigurd och Elsa Goljes Minne
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Ulrika Morris; Berit Aydin-Schmidt. "Performance and Application of Commercially Available Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Kits in Malaria Endemic and Non-Endemic Settings". Diagnostics 11 2 (2021): 336-336. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11020336.
    10.3390/diagnostics11020336
  2. Pernaute-Lau, L; Morris, Ulrika; Msellem, Mwinyi I.; Martensson, Andreas; Bjorkman, Anders; Gil, José Pedro. "Influence of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C8 polymorphisms on the efficacy and tolerability of artesunate-amodiaquine treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar.". Malaria journal (2021): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7885591.
    Acesso aberto • 10.1186/s12936-021-03620-6
  3. Abdul Qader Khan; Leyre Pernaute-Lau; Aamer Ali Khattak; Sanna Luijcx; Berit Aydin-Schmidt; Mubashir Hussain; Taj Ali Khan; Farees Uddin Mufti; Ulrika Morris. "Surveillance of genetic markers associated with Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy in Pakistan, 2018–2019". Malaria Journal 19 1 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03276-8.
    10.1186/s12936-020-03276-8
  4. Bjorkman, Anders; Morris, Ulrika. "Why Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections Are Common in Low-Transmission Settings.". Trends in parasitology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.07.008.
    10.1016/j.pt.2020.07.008
  5. Msellem, M.; Morris, Ulrika; Soe, Aung Paing; Abbas, Faiza; Ali, Abdul-Wahid; Frumento, Paulo; Ali, Abdullah; Martensson, Andreas; Bjorkman, Anders. "Increased Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum to Artesunate/Amodiaquine Despite 14 Years as First-Line Malaria Treatment, Zanzibar.". Emerging infectious diseases (2020): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7392451.
    10.3201/eid2608.191547
  6. Mhamilawa, LE; Ngasala, B; Morris, Ulrika; Kitabi, Eliford Ngaimisi; Barnes, Rory; Soe, Aung Paing; Mmbando, Bruno P; Bjorkman, Anders; Martensson, Andreas. "Parasite clearance, cure rate, post-treatment prophylaxis and safety of standard 3-day versus an extended 6-day treatment of artemether-lumefantrine and a single low-dose primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania: a randomized controlled trial.". Malaria journal (2020): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7310382.
    10.1186/s12936-020-03287-5
  7. Morgan, AP; Brazeau, NF; Ngasala, B; Mhamilawa, LE; Denton, M; Msellem, M; Morris, Ulrika; et al. "Falciparum malaria from coastal Tanzania and Zanzibar remains highly connected despite effective control efforts on the archipelago.". Malaria journal (2020): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6988337.
    10.1186/s12936-020-3137-8
  8. Hannah C. Slater; Amanda Ross; Ingrid Felger; Natalie E. Hofmann; Leanne Robinson; Jackie Cook; Bronner P. Gonçalves; et al. "The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent Plasmodium falciparum infections in relation to parasite density". Nature Communications 10 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09441-1.
    10.1038/s41467-019-10790-0
  9. Mhamilawa, LE; Aydin-Schmidt, B; Mmbando, BP; Ngasala, B; Morris, Ulrika. "Detection of Plasmodium falciparum by Light Microscopy, Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification, and Polymerase Chain Reaction on Day 3 after Initiation of Artemether-Lumefantrine Treatment for Uncomplicated Malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania: A Comparative Trial.". The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (2019): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6838587.
    10.4269/ajtmh.19-0298
  10. Björkman, A.; Shakely, D.; Ali, A.S.; Morris, U.; Mkali, H.; Abbas, A.K.; Al-Mafazy, A.-W.; et al. "From high to low malaria transmission in Zanzibar - Challenges and opportunities to achieve elimination". BMC Medicine 17 1 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85060256705&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12916-018-1243-z
  11. Amaratunga, C.; Andrianaranjaka, V.H.; Ashley, E.; Bethell, D.; Björkman, A.; Bonnington, C.A.; Cooper, R.A.; et al. "Association of mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum Kelch13 gene (Pf3D7-1343700) with parasite clearance rates after artemisinin-based treatments - A WWARN individual patient data meta-analysis". BMC Medicine 17 1 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85060148168&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12916-018-1207-3
  12. Ulrika Morris; Mwinyi I. Msellem; Humphrey Mkali; Atiqul Islam; Berit Aydin-Schmidt; Irina Jovel; Shija Joseph Shija; et al. "A cluster randomised controlled trial of two rounds of mass drug administration in Zanzibar, a malaria pre-elimination setting—high coverage and safety, but no significant impact on transmission". BMC Medicine 16 1 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1202-8.
    10.1186/s12916-018-1202-8
  13. Inoue, J.; Jovel, I.; Morris, U.; Aydin-Schmidt, B.; Islam, A.; Segurado, A.C.; Björkman, A.; Santi, S.D.; Mårtensson, A.. "Absence of Plasmodium falciparum K13 propeller domain polymorphisms among field isolates collected from the Brazilian Amazon Basin between 1984 and 2011". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 99 6 (2018): 1504-1507. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85058165678&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4269/ajtmh.18-0554
  14. Aydin-Schmidt, B.; Morris, U.; Ding, X.C.; Jovel, I.; Msellem, M.I.; Bergman, D.; Islam, A.; et al. "Field evaluation of a high throughput loop mediated isothermal amplification test for the detection of asymptomatic plasmodium infections in Zanzibar". PLoS ONE 12 1 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85009749006&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0169037
  15. Ulrika Morris; Weiping Xu; Mwinyi I. Msellem; Alanna Schwartz; Ali Abass; Delér Shakely; Jackie Cook; et al. "Characterising temporal trends in asymptomatic Plasmodium infections and transporter polymorphisms during transition from high to low transmission in Zanzibar, 2005–2013". Infection, Genetics and Evolution 33 (2015): 110-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2015.04.018.
    10.1016/j.meegid.2015.04.018
  16. Xu, W.; Morris, U.; Aydin-Schmidt, B.; Msellem, M.I.; Shakely, D.; Petzold, M.; Björkman, A.; Mårtensson, A.. "SYBR green real-time PCR-RFLP assay targeting the Plasmodium cytochrome B gene - A highly sensitive molecular tool for malaria parasite detection and species determination". PLoS ONE 10 3 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84925071020&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0120210
  17. Morris, U.; Khamis, M.; Aydin-Schmidt, B.; Abass, A.K.; Msellem, M.I.; Nassor, M.H.; González, I.J.; et al. "Field deployment of loop-mediated isothermal amplification for centralized mass-screening of asymptomatic malaria in Zanzibar: A pre-elimination setting". Malaria Journal 14 1 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930008786&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12936-015-0731-2
  18. Aydin-Schmidt, B.; Mubi, M.; Morris, U.; Petzold, M.; Ngasala, B.E.; Premji, Z.; Björkman, A.; Mårtensson, A.. "Usefulness of Plasmodium falciparum-specific rapid diagnostic tests for assessment of parasite clearance and detection of recurrent infections after artemisinin-based combination therapy". Malaria Journal 12 1 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884784983&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1475-2875-12-349
  19. Morris, Ulrika; Aydin-Schmidt, Berit; Shakely, Deler; Martensson, Andreas; Jornhagen, Louise; Ali, Abdullah S.; Msellem, Mwinyi I.; et al. "Rapid diagnostic tests for molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum malaria -assessment of DNA extraction methods and field applicability". Malaria Journal 12 1 (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11564.
    10.1186/1475-2875-12-106
  20. Shakely, D; Elfving, K; Aydin-Schmidt, B; Msellem, MI; Morris, U; Omar, R; Weiping, X; et al. "The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in Zanzibar". PLoS ONE (2013): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023791.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0072912
  21. Fröberg, G.; Jörnhagen, L.; Morris, U.; Shakely, D.; Msellem, M.I.; Gil, J.P.; Björkman, A.; et al. "Decreased prevalence of plasmodium falciparum resistance markers to amodiaquine despite its wide scale use as ACT partner drug in Zanzibar". Malaria Journal 11 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865980241&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1475-2875-11-321
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2020/11/24 Why Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections Are Common in Low-Transmission Settings The International Lou Miller Journal club
University of Alberta, Canada (Online event)
2019/10 Effectiveness, feasibility and safety of mass drug administration for reducing seasonal malaria transmission in Zanzibar – a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Centre for Medical Parasitology Global Excellence Anniversary symposium
University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Dinamarca)
2018/03/15 Effectiveness, feasibility and safety of mass drug administration for reducing seasonal malaria transmission in Zanzibar – a cluster-randomised controlled trial Oral presentation at the 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan African Malaria Conference, Senegal.
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) (Dakar, Senegal)

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2020/01 - 2020/12 Assessing the baseline prevalence of molecular markers of piperaquine drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria infections in East Africa
Orientador
 Applied Life Sciences (Licenciatura/Bacharelato)
Hogeschool Utrecht, Países Baixos
2018/01/06 - 2020/06/20 New strategies and tools for Plasmodium falciparum case management and surveillance in the era of imminent resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy in Tanzania.
Coorientador
 PhD in Medical Sciences (Doutoramento)
Uppsala Universitet, Suécia
2019/11 - 2020/06 Assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) against Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale infections with low parasite densities: overcoming challenges during molecular analyses
Orientador
 Infection Biology (Mestrado)
Uppsala Universitet, Suécia
2019/01 - 2019/06 Treatment efficacy of artesunate-amodiaquine and prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers in Zanzibar, 2002-2017
Orientador
 Global health (Mestrado)
Uppsala Universitet, Suécia
2018/01 - 2018/06 Maintained Efficacy of ASAQ after 14 years of use as first-line treatment for P. falciparum malaria in Zanzibar?
Coorientador
 Masters in Global Health (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2017/08 - 2017/12 Preliminary investigation of the impact of mass drug administration on malaria transmission in Zanzibar
Coorientador
 Medicine (Mestrado)
Göteborgs universitet Sahlgrenska Akademin, Suécia
2016/01 - 2016/08 Coverage and compliance of DHAp + SLD primaquine in the first round of MDA in hotspot shehias, Unguja, Zanzibar
Orientador
 Global Health (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2015/08 - 2015/12 Secondary supervisor; title: Optimising Malaria Surveillance and Response strategies in Zanzibar What has been done, what remains to be done?
Coorientador
 Medicince (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2015/08 - 2015/12 Development of a study protocol for determining the effectiveness of mass drug administration for reducing seasonal malaria transmission in Zanzibar – A cluster-randomized controlled trial
Coorientador
 Medicine (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2015/01 - 2015/06 Community malaria parasite prevalence and malaria control interventions in Zanzibar -A cross sectional study
Coorientador
 Medicine (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia
2014/08 - 2014/12 Screening for molecular markers associated with artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Tanzania and Zanzibar
Coorientador
 Medicine (Mestrado)
Karolinska Institutet, Suécia

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2018/01/16 - Atual Organiser for the Karolinska Institutet Center for Malaria Rearch Journal Club and World Malaria Day seminars (2019/01/23)
Seminário (Coorganizador)
 Karolinska Institutet, Suécia

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2015/01/05 - Atual Invited reviewer for peer reviewed scientific journals: PLoS One; Infection, Genetics and Evolution; International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife; Malaria Journal; American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene; Parasitology Research, Acta tropica; Journal of infectious diseases

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2020/08/01 - 2021/03/31 COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition Member of the Virology, Immunology & Diagnostics working group