Taylen Nappi's review article entitled "Tragedy of the commons: the resource struggle during Plasmodium infection" was just published online in Trends of Parasitology. This review outlines the current understanding of immunometabolism in the context of plasmodium infection and serves as a backdrop for his thesis work. He hopes this article inspires others to appreciate the complexity in metabolic regulation within immune cell subsets and how disease states experienced in malaria is linked to a dynamic resource struggle between the host and parasite, leading to altered efficacy in immune protection.