An official new measuring unit for the parasitology community had emerged from this @parafrap.bsky.social #EMBO conference... #shitton @nicolas3474.bsky.social
@kirkdeitsch.bsky.social
07.10.2025 10:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fabulous work from @nicolas3474.bsky.social on the protein atlas of the molluscs parasite #Perkinsus @parafrap.bsky.social
06.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful session on @parafrap.bsky.social parasites pathogenesis chaired by @apicolipid.bsky.social @clarehardinglab.bsky.social
06.10.2025 10:59 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The science at #ParaFrap is exciting and surprising as always - less surprising: who are the last people standing on night #1 ... @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social @kirkdeitsch.bsky.social
06.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kick-off of @parafrap.bsky.social #EMBO conference at #LesEmbiez by the wonderful organisers @gloverlab.bsky.social and Benoit Gamain who put together an exciting program about parasite biology, epidemiology and combat.
06.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Team bioenergetics in divergent organisms is ready to go! #ICOP25 @macleanlab.bsky.social @lettsscience.bsky.social
24.06.2025 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@fad1.bsky.social showing us how gene drives will end malaria!!
24.06.2025 06:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A first #ICOP25 day 2 highlight: Dayana Salas-Leiva of Ross Waller's lab uses LOPIT to ask not only what makes a symbiotic relationship, but what baggage is left after a break-up. Stay tuned!
24.06.2025 02:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some great models used to study endosymbiosis and what does it take to make a stable relationship:
Julius Lukes LOPIT of Insect Trypanosomes reveals new host-endosymbiont interactions
Ellen Yeh Epithemia diatoms probes the underlying mechanisms of establishing endosymbiosis
23.06.2025 07:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First - a vivid discussion about determining the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes following Andrew Roger's talk.
23.06.2025 02:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#ICOP25 opened today with so many exciting eukaryotic microbe insights 🦠 - you know its gonna be a great one when it starts with a drown video 😉 Stay tuned!!
23.06.2025 02:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Happy to have contributed to this wonderful study about #Toxoplasma #supercomplex led by @macleanlab.bsky.social, @sheinerlab.bsky.social and Alex Mühleip. Parasite mitochondria never cease to amaze! Please go checkout 👇
19.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Other complex III inhibitors are being developed as drug leads for apicomplexan diseases.
Together with Stone Doggett and colleagues at @OHSUNewswe we showed how the drug-lead ELQ-300 binds Toxoplasma complex III and designed a more potent version.
19.05.2025 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Atovaquone is a clinically used drug for apicomplexan diseases such as #malaria and #toxoplasmosis, but its precise mechanism of inhibition was unknown.
We showed how atovaquone interacts with Toxoplasma complex III and why it is selective to apicomplexan compared to human.
19.05.2025 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Respiratory complexes form “super-complexes” whose physiological function is debated, and assembly only studied in a few organisms.
We showed that apicomplexan conserved proteins mediate III2-IV supercomplex formation, and that this provides competitive growth advantage.
19.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Parasites need mitochondrial respiration to infect and spread. Effective anti-malaria and ani-toxoplasmosis drugs target respiratory complexes (e.g. atovaquone)!
But how do the parasite complexes work and how do drugs inhibit them?
Read Andrew Maclean and Alex Mühleip phenomenal work on this! 👇
19.05.2025 12:56 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
Inspirational talk from Dr Sharifa Abdulla about how to strike partnerships - think:
What is the problem
Whose problem is it (and therefore)
Who should be engaged in the partnership
25.04.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent to take part in a round table focus on African partnerships within our Glasgow Changing Futures strategy
@uofgsii.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
25.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
As Sheinerlab is joining the trend, Chat seem to have known that @macleanlab.bsky.social started his own lab recently and took the executive decision to remove him from the photo 😲😆
31.03.2025 12:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We will inform the hotel you liked it 😉
Thank you so much for visiting us it was a great treat as always!
29.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A true honour. Thank you to BSP @bspparasitology.bsky.social and our fabulous parasitology community
18.03.2025 13:14 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Interested in how genomics, transcriptomics & more shape infectious disease research?
Join the @lshtm.bsky.social Infectious Disease -Omics short course starting 17 June 2024 to explore cutting-edge techniques & their real-world applications!
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4kJOoPo
17.03.2025 15:45 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
If you are interested in antigenic variation, you may have wondered how parasites ‘select’ which antigen to express next.
Our manuscript, just published in Nature, provides some answers!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu a.eu
@nature.com
12.03.2025 16:31 — 👍 37 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 2
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Higgins Lab, University of Oxford. Structural biologist investigating host-pathogen interactions.
Identified the apicoplast in 1996. Coasting ever since.
Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
Group leader at the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki. My lab studies natural product small molecules that modulate protein secretion.
Structural biology of human-infective trypanosomes. Higgins Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Kavli INsD, University of Oxford.
www.MitoWorld.org is a global mitochondria research, information and media hub which intends to be inclusive across the many mitochondria communities to promote mitochondria broadly to the public, to medicine, health advocates and education.
Professor and Parasitologist captivated by the biology of apicomplexan parasites in general and malaria parasites in particular! Yoga addict and New in 🦋
Research on the biogenesis and quality control of mitochondrial proteins at Gothenburg University, Sweden
www.martinottlab.com
Biochemist interested in mitochondria, trypanosomes and science in general
Group Leader at EMBL Grenoble. mRNA, tRNA, RNA modifications, structural biology, x-ray, cryo-EM, trypanosomes and other science fun.
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Wellcome Trust funded PhD student at the University of Glasgow 🧫👩🔬 Interested in iron transporters in toxoplasma and macrophages
Wellcome ECA Fellow in the Harding Lab at the #WCIP. Interested in nutrient regulation in Toxoplasma. She/Her. 🏳️🌈
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