Thorey is a postdoc in the Ellen Bushell lab. She studies the asexual blood stage of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei and new techniques for gene modification.
Thorey did her Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of Iceland and then moved to Melbourne in Australia for further studies. In Melbourne she completed a Bachelor’s degree with Honours and a PhD at the University of Melbourne but was based at the Burnet Institute in the Gilson and Crabb lab group. Her research focused on protein export/trafficking and host cell modifications during the asexual blood stage of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Thorey is currently working in the Bushell malaria lab group and is developing new tools to genetically modify the rodent malaria parasite P. berghei using CRISPR-Cas9. Thorey is also studying proteins important for host cell modification during the asexual blood stage of the parasite using different molecular biology techniques.
Apart from her research Thorey is in the Women in Malaria communication committee (@womeninmalaria) and is an illustrator for the Global Parasitologist Coalition In her free time, she likes to draw malaria related science art (@ThoreyJonsdott1).