Prof. Vembar’s group recently attended the “National Congress for Parasitology 2024” meeting organised by IISER-Pune, CSIR-NCL and Savitribhai Phule Pune University, on behalf of the Indian Society of Parasitology. Prof. Vembar was an invited speaker while her team members presented a total of six posters at the Congress. Sowmiya, Aabhas and Raee together won the Best Poster Award for their poster titled “Adaptation of CRISPR/Cas13 RNA-targeting technologies to perform forward genetics in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum“. They were amongst 10 awardees chosen from over 110 poster presentations by researchers from all across India.