#NatMicroPicks Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊 locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to this one 🙌

It has been a pleasure and super enriching experience to host Abduramane at our lab this year. We wish him all the best being certain that we'll continue working together. Bon voyage de retour to Mali 🙏

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

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...

¿Es ético que se lleven a cabo proyectos de investigación en países del Sur Global sin que participe ningún científico local? 

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

Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪

Just hot out of the press! Rory developed a 3D microvessel model that recapitulates physiological pericyte coverage. We found that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt the barrier and halt ang-1 secretion. The activator AKB-9778 could rescue barrier disruption! Congratulations, Rory!

🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇

Next, it was time for Elena Gomez-Diaz ( @elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social ), from Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra at @csic.es , talking about the regulatory plasticity of Plasmodium and its importance for malaria.

Un ‘filtro de Instagram’ contra la malaria, vital para África: inteligencia artificial para detectar parásitos en segundos elpais.com/planeta-futu...

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...

📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Key dates Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15 Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3 More information: smbe2026.org/symposia

Have you ever wondered what happens with your microvessels after exposure to high temperature in fever? In this preprint former postdoc (ans soon to be PI) Viola Introini found that high temperatures cleaves glycocalyx , having severe consequences in malaria www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.

new from the lab -- we investigate 100% ethanol, DMSO salt solution (DESS), EDTA, RNAlater, and AllProtect as possible approaches for short term room temperature preservation of mosquito HMW DNA, nuclei for Hi-C, and RNA towards high quality reference genome creation. the key findings/tips are ....

These days you will see a lot of posts from me in relation to the #GazaGenocide‌. I don't usually use this channel for non-scientific issues. But 1) it's unbearable, 2) it's not a political opinion, it's humanity. I appeal to the scientific community to stand up for #Gaza

🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?" #Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12

Bárbara Díaz Terenti PhD student at the Gómez-Díaz Lab presenting at @events.embl.org #EMBLMalaria #BIOMALPAR our latest work on Plasmodium malariae transcriptome in the mosquito

🔬✨'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 🙌🏼

My first race in many years (after 2 maternities) is for @womeninmalaria.bsky.social There we go!!

Universidades obliga a una profesora a elegir entre la baja de maternidad y un contrato de investigación www.eldiario.es/1_bb5d50?utm...

Gracias al equipo de "No es un día cualquiera" de @radionacional.bsky.social por la entrevista y el reportaje www.rtve.es/television/2...

🚨New preprint from the lab! This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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

This World Malaria Day, we celebrate the vital role women & other discriminated genders play in the fight against malaria! From pioneering researchers to dedicated health workers, women are driving innovation & change in malaria control globally. [Sketch by Sophia & Thorey 👩🏻‍🎨]

Últimos días para solicitarlo!!

El Gómez-Díaz Lab ofertamos un plan formativo JAEINT25_EX_0406 centrado en epigenética en el parásito de la #malaria. Si eres estudiante de grado o máster y quieres introducirte en la investigación en salud, vente a trabajar con nosotros al @ipblncsic.bsky.social en Granada.

World Health Organization highlights from the Global Malaria Programme: annual report 2024 Read & download the report here: www.malariaworld.org/blogs/highli... #malaria #worldhealthorganization

Ready for the most beautifully sophisticated m6A modification program out there? It’s sex-specific, controls a developmental transition and is temperature-sensitive. Dream team led by Selina, with @ameyasinha.bsky.social @jessmbryant.bsky.social @tizvignolini.bsky.social @ju-couble.bsky.social

El Gómez-Díaz Lab ofertamos un plan formativo JAEINT25_EX_0406 centrado en epigenética en el parásito de la #malaria. Si eres estudiante de grado o máster y quieres introducirte en la investigación en salud, vente a trabajar con nosotros al @ipblncsic.bsky.social en Granada.

#midweekmicro🔬 Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission🦟 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Si te apasiona la genómica aplicada a salud, aplica a la #JAE Intro ICU de @elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social 💡Descubre con el análisis de long-read single cell RNA-seq cómo el parásito de la malaria utiliza el splicing alternativo para sobrevivir Ayuda a difundir RT 🙏 Sigue👇

📢 @who.int Highlights from the Global #Malaria Programme: annual report 2024 🦟 www.who.int/publications...

How can global health organizations make breastfeeding more inclusive and easier? New @plosglobalpublichealth.org paper offers concrete suggestions journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Con el cateto y psicópata amigo de Vox gobernando en EEUU, fichar para España a la élite científica sería una oportunidad que no deberíamos dejar escapar.

Nuevo artículo de @aberron.bsky.social sobre el estudio de @aacostaserrano.bsky.social en el que se descubre la fuerte actividad mosquiticida de la Niconitisinona, un fármaco utilizado en enfermedades raras. Comento junto con Carlos Chaccour el potencial de su reutilización contra la #malaria

🚨 Detección del mosquito tigre asiático en el Parque Nacional de Doñana 🚨

Glad this is finally out. Using pharmacokinetic modeling we show that #nitisinone, an FDA-approved drug 4 #Tyrosinemia & #Alkaptonuria, kills #Anopheles mosquitoes, outperforming #Ivermectin. Grateful to all primary author’s & fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ten years of bigger samples, better views mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t... Thank you for including our lab's contribution in your remarkable piece about what I believe is the most revolutionary method for studying tiny, fascinating apicomplexans. @benliffner.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social

Malaria parasites are an extreme example of ribosome heterogeneity. But how do they control which ribosomal RNA to express when? Check out this mountain of work led by @ju-couble.bsky.social with @tizvignolini.bsky.social @jessmbryant.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Si te apasiona la genómica aplicada a salud, aplica a la #JAE Intro ICU de @elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social 💡Descubre con el análisis de long-read single cell RNA-seq cómo el parásito de la malaria utiliza el splicing alternativo para sobrevivir Ayuda a difundir RT 🙏 Sigue👇

It has been such an inspirational and empowering experience the 2nd @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference and a privilege to organise a new edition of our Peer Mentoring Workshop Did you attend it? How was your experience? Stay tuned to WiM new mentoring program coming soon!

🌟Thank you all for joining us at the 2nd WiM Conference🌟 A conference like this is only possible because of the dedication and efforts of so many people coming together - Thank you everyone! 🥰 -The conference committee (Silvie, Damaris, Brook, Megan, Thorey & Nsa)

Day 1 complete of the 2nd WiM Conference! Thanks everyone for joining us today, sharing your research, knowledge and showing engagement during each session. See you again tomorrow! 🦟🧫🔬

📣📣📣 Announcement Nominations for President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer and 2 Councilors are due by Friday, April 18, 2025 - members please check your emails; details to come as a News Item on smbe.org.

See you at the conference! 💙💛

*Do manuscripts by female evolutionary biologists spend longer under review?* Spoiler: apparently NO (but arguably). Interestingly, female 1st authors are less likely to be corresponding and the gender of 1st author is correlated with last author. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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