Sebastian Shaw

Congrats

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C’mon!

Joyful snow day!

Dexter is pretty good! Premiered in 2006. 😉

Happy New Year!

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Awesome, congrats Simona et al.!

Sure, but at what cost? :-(

Why is this sentence in past tense 😉

Congratulations 🎉

Stage-specific regulation of the Plasmodium falciparum proteasome activity reveals adaptive rewiring in artemisinin resistance The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is essential for Plasmodium falciparum to maintain protein homeostasis, adapt to proteotoxic stress, and regulate parasite growth and stage transitions. The prote...

New paper out !
Want to learn more about fascinating proteasome biology and Artemisinin resistance in Malaria parasites ? Check out our preprint:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Publication alert! 🔔 Our recent work exploring how Plasmodium uses a Rad51 independent homologous recombination to diversify its var gene repertoire is now published in 🧬 Nucleic Acids Research! @oupprimary.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social Read more here.
tinyurl.com/794brb6h

Repost for World #AMR Awareness Week.
#AntimicrobialResistance

➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I guess that would answer the question whether there are more eyes or legs on our planet.

3, 2 and then 1

Finally, huge thanks to the @snsf.ch for believing in this journey — from postdoc to PI.
Can’t wait to build the lab, the science, and the next generation of parasite biologists.
#Parasitology #SNSF #AcademicLife #Cryptosporidium #Science #parasitesrule

And heartfelt thanks to Isabel Roditi, whose mentorship has guided me for years.
She also made it possible for me to attend the Biology of Parasitism course at Woods Hole, an experience that changed my academic career in an indescribable way.

Grateful to all mentors, peers, friends, and family who supported me — especially my wife, Natalie. ❤️
Special thanks to @striepenlab.bsky.social, for freedom, trust, and inspiration at @upenn.edu. 
One lasting lesson: admire what worked before worrying about what didn’t.

My future lab will study the genetic and transcriptional basis of parasite virulence and persistence in #Cryptosporidium, with a sprinkle of new tool development along the way.

Exciting news!!
I’ve been awarded an #SNSFStartingGrant and will join the Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor in summer 2026.
A dream come true! 🥺

✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀

ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26

Beautiful! Congratulations!

Es ist sozusagen unbegreiflich.

Save the date, next Cryptosporidium meeting in Edinburgh May 24-26, 2026. Register for email updates via the QR code below.

As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll “I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes

As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Congrats! :-)

The parasitesrule site has an archive of abstract books from the Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) & the Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting (KMCB). The book from the first MPM (1990) is also there!
🔗 parasitesrule.com/archive

Thanks to all co-authors—especially my shared first author Gracyn 🙌

Widespread genomic heterogeneity at the type II NAD(P)H dehydrogenase locus predisposes Cryptosporidium to clofazimine resistance The parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of life-threatening diarrheal disease, and effective treatment is not available. The discovery of potent anti-Cryptosporidium activity of clofazimine, o...

Our latest story on Clofazimine resistance in Cryptosporidium! What started as a side project turned into one of the most interesting stories.

Genetics 101 😊

#Cryptosporidium #Apicomplexa #Clofazimine #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #ParasiteResearch

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