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We knew Toxoplasma Type I needs fats to survive in culture. Now we show this in Toxoplasma Type II, responsible for most human infections in Europe and North America. Blocking fatty acid elongation reduced growth and persistence in lab culture and in animals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Calling all parasite enthusiasts in and around Scotland 👇

Care for some #toxoplasma with your beer? @colbertlateshow.bsky.social bear-poop-beer report is making toxoplasma great again

Thank you Philippe, I had an excellent and inspiring day!!

If you are a committed scientist who wishes to work with Toxoplasma or with organelles (or both!!) - come work with us: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Perkinsus marinus is an important marine pathogen yet we know little about its biology. @macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Had a great time interviewing Dr. Lilach Sheiner (@sheinerlab.bsky.social) for the latest edition of ISOP’s Protistology Newsletter. Check it out here! #ProtistsOnSky #Toxoplasma #Science

Excited to release the Herculean efforts of @scottchisholm.bsky.social &Co. defining the subcellular #hyperLOPIT spatial proteome of #Plasmodium schizonts. Proteomes defining 24 subcellular niches, including exported compartments in the blood cell, are identified. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎓 Funded #PhD studentships in pathogen biology and parasitology *Cell and Molecular Biology*; *Host-pathogen interactions* Part of the EastBio Doctoral Landscape Award Based in the Edinburgh area of Scotland PhD 1: bit.ly/Host-pathoge... PhD 2: bit.ly/Parasite-sca... @uoe-eid.bsky.social

and meet the @sppirit-network.bsky.social dream team that made it all happen! Follow the for more (a new #Postdoc fellowship workshop coming up!!)

Coming up: Postdoctoral fellowship mini-workshop as a part of the SPPIRIT Forum series. EMBO, Marie Curie, and Wellcome Early Career fellows will share their advice on fellowship applications. Join us at 12 noon on Thursday 14th November! Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Fabulous work from @nicolas3474.bsky.social on the protein atlas of the molluscs parasite #Perkinsus @parafrap.bsky.social

Wonderful session on @parafrap.bsky.social parasites pathogenesis chaired by @apicolipid.bsky.social @clarehardinglab.bsky.social

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

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.

We have a project advertised as part of the @NorthWestBio1 program this year - come join us! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... Applications to the program are here: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Congratulations Saniya for graduating her PhD!!!

Calling all mitochondria enthusiasts, we are recruiting for a new project (and the post will be split between Glasgow and Helsinki) www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

The trypanosomal TAC is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. We provide insight into TAC assembly: one of the most extreme sorting event for any mitochondrion. Congratulations to Philip, Salome and Bernd #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

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!

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 👇

Happy to share our latest paper. Result of a great collaboration between @sheinerlab.bsky.social @oninopantsu.bsky.social and Alexander Mühleip’s new group. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 😲😆

A true honour. Thank you to BSP @bspparasitology.bsky.social and our fabulous parasitology community

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

Funded PhD project with myself, Prof. Paul Denny at Durham University and Dr Kalesh Karunakaran at Teeside University now open for applications! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.

🔊 Calling all parasite enthusiasts - come join us to study Toxoplasma and Plasmodium organelle biology 🔬 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

What a proud moment to see @macleanlab.bsky.social starting his own lab in a few days 🤩 For all of you #ECRs out there thinking who should you work with in your next career stage - contact Andrew think no more!

Exciting brainstorming meeting to discuss #emergingchallenges in #Parasitology 💭🎓 Always a fertile & inspirational discussion with @wellcometrust.bsky.social folks in the room 🤩

Sorry we got blown off by the storm last time but looking forward to going back to Glasgow and talking parasites and brains with an inspiring set of scientists @abhinay.bsky.social @clarehardinglab.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @sheinerlab.bsky.social

Do you work on parasites and reside in an LMIC? Consider applying for a 2025 MPM LMIC award. The deadline is March 3rd, 2025—details on the website. www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi/tr...

Excited to be able to share our new paper 'Iron Mediated Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Toxoplasma gondii'! Thanks to all involved including the awesome @clarehardinglab.bsky.social and @danaaghabi.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plospathogen.... Read on for quick-read digest of our new work...

🔊one week left👇