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...

Another piece of the VSG expression control puzzle: Active VSG transcript is required for allelic exclusion, acting as both, non-coding and coding RNA. Shout out to Douglas Escrivani and the team! academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/19/gkaf1011/8294349

#Chagas disease remains very neglected, and not only in the US, in spite of an estimated 8 million people being infected with T. cruzi. We, and our collaborators, aim to develop new medicines, but this is becoming increasingly challenging due to lack of funding. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Save the date and join us on 22nd of August for a parasitology journal club, 1st session of the SPPIRIT Forum series.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice to have been involved in this great study from the Horn Lab, driven by @marketanovotna.bsky.social ! Elegant application of CRISPR precision editing and saturation mutagenesis!

I used inducible CRISPR/Cas9 to make Trypanosoma brucei cell line that allowed me to edit originally muti-copy histone gene. We uncovered a novel role of H4 histone tail in gene regulation. I enjoyed working on this exciting project with @joanarcf.bsky.social, a great mentor. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

If you have ever wanted to know "Where is the gut is the parasite?" this pre-print is for you. 🐮 Led by Peyton, with thanks to our wonderful collaborators at @moredunfoundation.bsky.social Frank Katzer, @geordieparasit.bsky.social and EMs by @lemgruber.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am delighted that the preprint of my PhD work is out! We used Cas9-based method to edit essential polycistronic histone H4 gene in T. brucei for the first time. A big thanks to @fariatrypslab.bsky.social who was a fantastic mentor during my PhD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #tbrucei #epigenetics

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...

Happy to announce that we are running the third edition of the EMBL-UNESCO residency on infection biology. If you are an African female scientist and would like to do a research stay at EMBL, my lab is a possible hosting group. Deadline March 31st! www.embl.org/about/info/s...

🧵 🙌🏾 Congratulations #Guinea for eliminating sleeping sickness (gambiense form) as a public health problem in the country! bit.ly/3Cgp0zq 1/3

Our Jan issue highlights @sppirit-network.bsky.social connecting #Scottish #parasitology #ECRs, written by R. Edgar @jackhanna.bsky.social @marketanovotna.bsky.social @martacampillo.bsky.social @mukul1190.bsky.social @shikhas.bsky.social @vfrank.bsky.social & M.Ridgway www.cell.com/trends/paras...

🥁🥁 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...

Have you finished your #PhD and are interested in exploring how #parasites cross the vasculature to colonize tissues? Do you fancy catching some #waves in the Atlantic? Or eating grilled fish by the beach? Join us in #Lisbon at GIMM, where science meets quality of life. @parasitesrule.bsky.social

If you are looking for a postdoc in tryps, check out this recent vacancy in the Faria lab in York. Great opportunity to work with a supportive mentor using cutting-edge techniques to address exciting questions.

If you are a budding parasitologist and you would like to spend a great summer full of science, networking, and fun with your peers, there is still time to apply for Biology of Parasitism course at @mblscience.bsky.social! Deadline 29th of January. tinyurl.com/applyBoP

Have you heard of SPPIRIT (@sppirit-network.bsky.social)? In this article we explain how this ECR-led network of Scottish parasitologists was established, what impact it has already had and where it is heading! www.cell.com/trends/paras...