Hot off the biorxiv press! 🔥 Samuel Lara-Reyna finds GBP5 enhances macrophage glycolysis via glucose uptake, GTPase activity dependent and as being cis-Golgi localised. Bonus finding, GBP5 is important for full M1 macrophage functionality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📆 Join the 2026 Biology of Host–Parasite Interactions GRC (June 7–12, Newport, RI) 🌟 Cutting-edge science, open slots for talks & posters 🧑‍🔬 GRS for grad students & postdocs the weekend before 📩 Apply by May 18, 2026 (early submission encouraged) 👉 Details & application: www.grc.org/biology-of-h...

As the review process goes, take a sneak peak of our exciting manuscript. I'll make a proper thread when it's fully out!

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Interested in how infections cause seizures? Then, read on! We discovered that Toxoplasma selectively eliminates inhibitory synapses in brain. You will study how these synapses are removed. Please send brief review of research interests and goals, CV, and names of 3 refs to: [email protected].

Isadonna Tengganu and Ke Hu develop transfection and ExM protocols for Chromera velia, enabling direct comparisons with its parasitic apicomplexan relative, Toxoplasma gondi. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Oxidative phosphorylation complexes contain subunits encoded by both the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. How do cells coordinate the synthesis and assembly of these complexes at the inner membrane? We teamed up with Martin Ott (@mitolab.bsky.social) to address this in two recent papers.

Save the date‼️ 💡 More information coming soon about registration and the scientific program. #TOXO18 #Toxoplasma #Immunoparasitology #Buzios2026 #ScienceByTheSea

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Geographic distribution of human toxoplasmosis

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#Mitochondrial proteins are synthesized with presequences that target them to the #mitochondrion, but why are some more efficient than others? This study identifies presequences which recruit Hsp90 co-chaperones & TOMM34 to confer prioritized import efficiency @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4m6spBN

Aye-ayes are clearly unusual, but @glom.bsky.social @3rdreviewer.bsky.social &co show that they also have an unusual pattern of #MutationBias; older females transmit more mutations than males. This is a first for mammals, raising questions about other #lemurs 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/40SR4kj

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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...

I haven’t posted anything yet, but my first post shows my new city and my best paw. He’s not a Colts fan anymore.