new reference genomes for Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium malariae (& Pf too) direct from blood taken from children carrying these parasites -- this was done with as little as 2 ng of DNA. all sorts of craziness going on in the subtelomeric regions ...

Host genetics affect #plasmodiumfalciparum #gametocytedevelopment. Our new preprint shows that sexual conversion is higher in erythrocytes with #hemoglobin AS and AC.🦠🩸Check it out! @itmantwerp.bsky.social, CRUN (Burkina Faso), @cortesmalaria.bsky.social & Guy Caljon's lab.

New preprint out! We made a #Plasmodium knowlesi A1-H.1 #transcriptome time course for asexual blood stages🩸. tinyurl.com/mwd9b8vx 👩‍💻Webtool to compare temporal expression to P. vivax: tinyurl.com/bdz2ndsj @itmantwerp.bsky.social @eknuepfer.bsky.social @cortesmalaria.bsky.social

So sad to hear of Sir Nick White’s passing. It was so lovely to meet him at ITM last year and I will cherish our chats about P. vivax.

😰 Professor Sir Nicholas (aka Nick) White passed away yesterday 🪦 - an amazing @ox.ac.uk @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk scientist, a mentor to many of us, and quite a merrymaker actually... only to cite a few reasons to miss him 💔

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

📢 Call for Applications: African STARS Fellowships 2026 👉 For young African scientists (≤35 y/o) Fully funded training in genomics, diagnostics, vaccines & biotech 🎓 Hosted by CERI & Center for Africa’s Resilience to Epidemics (CARE) ⏰ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/2AkDL

📢 #GHITFund Call for Applications: Screening Platform 🧪 Support the identification of novel compounds for malaria, tuberculosis, and selected NTDs 🔓 Access Japanese compound libraries and screening technologies ⏰ Submission deadline: Jan 9, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/aBw3c

🔔 Would you like to easily keep track of upcoming malaria conferences? 📋 We have gathered malaria-related conferences taking place in 2026 📅 Regularly updated as new events are announced 🔗‍️ shorturl.at/IYa8Q 📬 Subscribe to the MESA monthly newsletter (link in bio!)

So cute: @flightradar24.com is showing the XMS to XMS flight, the SLE1.

✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination. 🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B. 🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.

📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟 Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade?? (all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)

Today at the BSPP meeting we @itmmalaria.bsky.social officially launched our call for a BENELUX Malaria Center. Are you a researcher from the BENELUX area working on malaria interested to connect in a yearly meeting ? 📋 sign up forms.cloud.microsoft/e/vZJ5cLGhT2

Our latest publication is featured! If you’re interested in optimized malaria sample collection and processing protocols for transcriptomics in the field, check it out!

Despite growing threats, global #malaria efforts have prevented an estimated 170M cases and 1M deaths in 2024. WHO calls on endemic countries to lead the response and for partners to enable them in their commitment to #EndMalaria 👉 bit.ly/3Y6IcXn

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...

An important piece of lab equipment (sleeping ginger cat). 📸 daishimae animal hospital

Between the 1910s and 1980s malaria and hookworm went from being rampant to virtually eradicated. Yes, I’m talking about the United States. That’s what concerted, intelligent, public health programmes can do.

Interested in bring single-cell sequencing to the field for #Plasmodium research? Take a look! 🔬 My first first-author publication is finally out! #malaria #SingleCell 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ANNOYED at the ~news~ so will post this #SciArt again!

The KnuepferLab is hiring! Our team is looking for a highly motivated, experienced molecular parasitologist to expand our group as a postdoctoral researcher at the RVC. Follow either link below for more information on the project and the job offer: lnkd.in/eprgmaE9 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY962/p...

Story time. Have you ever wondered why the CDC is headquartered in Atlanta? The answer in one word: MALARIA. CDC started to prevent the spread of malaria, so we went where the mosquitoes were. Now, the division that houses our founding mission has an uncertain future. www.cdc.gov/museum/histo...

I have only one word: unfathomable

8 years ago I chose Europe and it was the best decision I could have made!

It’s #WorldMalariaDay The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000. The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled. bit.ly/MalariaDay2025

In light of #WorldMalariaDay, ITM PhD-student Luis Esteban Cabrera Sosa will present on the current state of malaria epidemiology in the Peruvian Amazon and how molecular surveillance can be a useful tool to overcome the challenges of malaria elimination. Register here! itg.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dr. Steven Kho gave a captivating presentation in Session 6 on the splenic biomass in acute clinical Pv cases. No spleen leads to more circulating parasites and lower total biomass. And quantified in patients with a spleen around 88% biomass resides in the spleen and only 12% in circulation!

#ICPVR2025 Session 5 ended with 3 amazing turbo talks! Sophia DonVito from Moon lab (robmoon.bsky.social) showed insights gained from using Pk transgenes to investigate the role of PvDBP and RBP2b in invasion.

Day 2 #ICPvR2025: second poster of @erinsauve.bsky.social about Pv CQ susceptibility in PNG.

Day 2 of #ICPVR2025. Session 5 begins with Dr. Manoj Duraisingh noting we have some good invasion candidates already, but that the genome tells us there are more! The combination of Pk & Pc models to study Pv antigen inhibition and gene essentiality can be used to identify and test new candidates.

For #ICPVR2025 Day 1 Session 4, Kamala Thriemer (@kthriemer.bsky.social) presented the EFFORT study and the latest results showing 7 days of high-dose primaquine or tafenoquine have better antirelapse effectiveness than low-dose primaquine for 14 days! (1/4)

Dr. Jean Popovici kicked off Session 3 on Day 1 of #ICPVR2025 by sharing the data from his detailed patient follow-up study to better understand relapses and the work towards finding biomarkers to predict them. It looks like erythropoiesis could be the answer! (1/4)

Session 2 on Day 1 of #ICPVR2025 started with Dr. Tanu Jain from India’s National Center for Vector-borne Disease Control sharing the advancements in the IHP platform for country-wide data and India’s plan for elimination by 2030. (1/3)

Educate a girl, empower the world! Strong girls, strong world 🌏 #WomenInSTEM #WomeninMalaria

Thanks everyone for some great discussions today at my poster about single-cell sequencing. Come find me tomorrow to talk about P. vivax and CQ resistance in PNG!

Dr. Manju Rahu the Director of ICMR Vector Control Research Centre kicked off the #ICPVR2025 conference inaugural session by welcoming us and reminding us that it’s going to be a fruitful few days with some of the smartest minds in malaria research in the room. (1/3)

Getting ready for the ICPvR conference in Puducherry, India. Get ready to follow along if you love P. vivax malaria research!

A butterfly shaped shell and a blue sky found on the beach in Puducherry, India. 🐚🦋 Perfect for my first post on Bluesky!