Nisha Philip

📢 Just 1 month to go until our SPPIRIT ECR symposium

📝 Abstract deadline extended to 10 October 2025 - don’t miss out!

30.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein promotes Plasmodium ookinete infection of the mosquito Author summary Malaria parasites complete their life-cycle within mammalian and mosquito hosts requiring specialised forms to invade and establish infection in host tissue. In order to transmit to the...

Delighted to report our publication on a divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein that regulates malaria transmission to mosquitoes. Great work by Domi Kwecka , @jennyregan.bsky.social @choel Kim #malaria #ookinete #mosquitoes #signalling journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

16.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

Shameful! Eventually they will just focus on their basketball team!

18.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔬✨'Women in Malaria' peer-to-peer workshop at #EMBLMalaria

♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.

Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼

21.05.2025 12:31 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Session 3 at #EMBLMalaria – 'Vectors and transmission' – is underway 🦟🔍

Time for another keynote lecture!

⭐🎙️ Sarah Reece – University of Edinburgh, UK
➡️ 'It’s about time! Daily rhythms in malaria infections matter for parasite survival and transmission'

@reecelab.bsky.social @embl.org

21.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Final presentation of the day - Ker Memorial Lecture given by Prof Andy Waters @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning?

16.05.2025 15:22 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Andrew Millar (@A_J_Millar@fediscience.org) Attached: 1 image · Content warning: #ElonMusk #RoyalSociety

I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk.

See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

12.02.2025 12:13 — 👍 212    🔁 60    💬 7    📌 10

We are supposed to receive a shipment next week. Will let you know if there are hiccups.

04.02.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein promotes Plasmodium ookinete infection of the mosquito Colonisation of the mosquito by the malarial parasite is critically reliant on the invasive ookinete stage. Ookinete invasion of mosquito is coordinated by the apical complex, a specialised parasite s...

📣📣 🦟 Wondering what the putative EPAC in Plasmodium does. See our new study characterising a cryptic cyclic nucleotide binding protein required for mosquito infection by the ookinete. Well done Domi Kwecka and team #ookinete #malaria
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

31.01.2025 12:39 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Research Assistant/Associate Job Purpose We are seeking to recruit a motivated and creative Research Assistant/Associate (postdoctoral researcher) to work within an MRC-funded research programme https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?...

🥁🥁 Job alertttt!! Interested in weird biology of malaria parasites? Inducible genetic screens? Single-cell RNAseq? Come postdoc with us - www.parafugelab.com ! International applicants or applicants just finishing up their PhD, both welcome!!

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

17.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 26    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 6

What a wonderful display of the Auroras in Scotland in 2024! Parasites are as wonderful….

10.01.2025 16:28 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

EastBio funded PhD opportunities in Edinburgh. Get in touch if you are interested in parasites and signalling.

11.12.2024 09:50 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

EastBio: How do ubiquitin writers control malaria transmission? at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio: How do ubiquitin writers control malaria transmission? at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

9. How do ubiquitin writers control #malaria transmission?: tinyurl.com/5aus8tuw

So that's 9(!!) #Parasitology PhDs from the EastBio DTP at Edinburgh Uni! Get applying!

10.12.2024 16:31 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Repositioning Brusatol as a Transmission Blocker of Malaria Parasites Currently, primaquine is the only malaria transmission-blocking drug recommended by the WHO. Recent efforts have highlighted the importance of discovering new agents that regulate malarial transmission, with particular interest in agents that can be administered in a single low dose, ideally with a discrete and Plasmodium-selective mechanism of action. Here, our team demonstrates an approach to identify malaria transmission-blocking agents through a combination of in vitro screening and in vivo analyses. Using a panel of natural products, our approach identified potent transmission blockers, as illustrated by the discovery of the transmission-blocking efficacy of brusatol. As a member of a large family of biologically active natural products, this discovery provides a critical next step toward developing methods to rapidly identify quassinoids and related agents with valuable pharmacological therapeutic properties.

21.11.2024 16:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0