Meet Holdonia, a new member of the chrompodellid clade. Found clinging to a polychaete, this little guy reveals that similar patterns in plastid reduction have occurred independently across chrompodellid and related lineages. @rhizalyssa.bsky.social @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2t25xb6z

🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Megan Sloan has been awarded a 2026 @sulsa.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize for work showing excellent potential to make an impact in the field of life sciences. 🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe... 📺 SULSA video: youtu.be/nJASKkxqMpA?...

Hi all, I'd like to share some news - I will soon be moving to Lisbon, Portugal to start my very own lab @gimminstitute.bsky.social! The Epithelial Biology of Apicomplexan Infections lab (Epi-Api lab for short) will focus on the special relationship between #epithelial cells and #Cryptosporidium.

This week, our paper came out in @jem.org showing that: This week, our paper came out in @JEM showing that: 1. Long-lived Tim-4+ macrophages are present in the lamina propria and submucosa/muscularis. 2. Macrophage-derived TGF-beta is key to instructing macrophage identity in the lamina propria.

Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done! rdcu.be/feOj6

Our last manuscript is out! 🚨 We identify double stranded RNAs in embryonic stem cells - full of transposons, especially young LINEs and LTRs 🧐 🧬Happy Friday Reading🧬

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to #BSP2026 in beautiful, sunny Glasgow!!! (We asked the weather to behave while everyone was around)! The @bspparasitology.bsky.social 2027 meeting will be in Cardiff! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! Like Glasgow, People Make #Parasitology! 🥳🧬🧫🔬

Come and find us at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026! 👋 Find out about our upcoming events, share your feedback, and see how you can get involved with the committee. And if nothing else... our goodies might just tempt you 😉

We open with @sheinerlab.bsky.social introducing a scientist who needs no introduction - Dominique Soldati-Favre. Dominique was awarded lifetime membership to the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for her immeasurable contributions to the field. #bsp #parasites #peoplemakeglasgow

Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social

New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism. #ProtistOnSky #diplonemid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our first lab preprint: A real team effort to understand the Plasmodium GAPM proteins, which form part of a essential bridge between the parasite's cytoskeleton and motility apparatus. Below is a sneak peek of some beautiful microscopy - light and electron! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Job opportunity for a #FlowCytometry technician, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK. We do cool flow with fungi, bacteria, diatoms, space particles, as well as mammalian cells. Spectral, conventional and sorts. Join us! Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Honored and proud to be elected EAM member. Huge thanks to mentors, my amazing team (past&present), the great parasitology community @parasitesrule.org @parafrap.bsky.social for support throughout this journey @inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @frm-officiel.bsky.social

It feels cheesy when people say this but it really was a privilege to be part of this work. Our recent paper (led by the fantastic Ben Royer @swallacelab.bsky.social) shows how engineered Ecoli can turn the main product of PET plastic breakdown it into an anti-Parkinsons drug (L-DOPA) rdcu.be/e84ZO

🆕 | Sii's Dr Mariana Ferreira Silva has been awarded a Young Investigator Grant from FAPESP to establish a research group at the University of São Paulo. The group will investigate how the ubiquitination system contributes to the Toxoplasma gondii life cycle. 🔗 More: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU604/p...

Join us next Friday to learn about working with different parasites and enhance your parasitology network!

Happy to announce a new review article by MD/PhD student Kade Loveridge on iron metabolism in #malaria #parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

📆 Join us for the scientific session of the ParaFrap Next Generation in Parasitology Workshop (May 18-21, 2026, Montpellier) ! 🧑‍🔬 Junior PIs will present their work. Registration is free but mandatory (includes lunch & coffee breaks). Spots are limited, register now! 👉 forms.gle/bYsb47iZG7pR...

A great collaboration of my group with @herassr.bsky.social and @heick.bsky.social groups searching for mammalian dsRNAs and their importance to human disease 🧬

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨 I’m moving back to Switzerland this summer to launch my lab at the University of Zurich and am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (start: late 2026). Details & application: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie.... Please share! 😊

Want to computationally analyse a genome's-worth of protein localisations? Have data for 4.5 million cells at your fingertips using this Python tool to access TrypTag.org data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (we're out of beta and releasing on time 🎂)

Very excited to share our work, a fish herpesvirus' cryo EM structure. It features a long PVAT tail, with new and host-like proteins discovered using modelAngelo, Dali, and Viro3D, including a host-like macrodomain doi.org/10.64898/202... @dbhella.bsky.social @grovearmada.bsky.social

I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists (see more in thread below) Registration Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026. Regular Monday 10th August 2026. There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...

Congratulations to Barrack, we are very excited to welcome him here in Edinburgh.

🧬Fully Funded PhD Mitochondria|Protein Homeostasis|Antibody Technologies 🤝In collaboration with @menzieslab.bsky.social and Nick Robinson @blslancasteruni.bsky.social 🎓UK students only ⏰6th March 2026 📩Enquiries: [email protected] www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phdopportunity #mitochondria

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...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

LAST CALL! Come join me at Glasgow University for evolutionary structural biology! We have fully positions. Computational Postdoc: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Structural Postdoc: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Technician: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici...

FYI were starting weird structure/evolution/biology stuff at Glasgow University! If you're interested let me know! Tell your friends! CRYO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... BIOINFO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... TECHNICIAN www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici... #science #hiring #evolution

We are actively recruiting a Post doc to work on the regulation of Toxoplasma différenciation. Please send a CV and cover letter if interested. ciil.fr/teams/apicompl…

Happy to share with you our work on how the interferon response impacts embryonic development 🦠Mammalian embryos contain endogenous dsRNAs that resemble viruses and can be misrecognised by the dsRNA sensor MDA5. Thanks to all collaborators, we could not have done it without you 🤩 rdcu.be/eWMfA

I am pleased to share our latest preprint, detailing the characterisation of BDF7 in Leishmania. This non-canonical bromodomain factor is essential for the parasite to live inside the host macrophage and has a parasite specific function compared to the host ortholog , ATAD2. Details in the link:

Happy to share a new preprint exploring the unusual biochemistry of a "weirdly" diverged cytochrome c in malaria parasites that exemplifies a lineage common to many apicomplexan parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Was a lot of fun working with @sheinerlab.bsky.social and Julius Lukes and his lab to explore the weird mitochondria of these under explored parasites. Thanks to all the authors.

In the early 1980ies the labs of Cordingley, Boothroyd and Borst discovered that the LSU rRNA of T. brucei is processed into 6 fragment. Now more than 30 years later Simona Amodeo at al. found the factors that mediate these trypanosomatid-specific processing events. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Save the date! The next instalment of Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes is a GO! Join us next year for a programme of talks, posters, ECR/networking activities. Website and registration details to follow in the coming weeks. See you October 5-10 2026 in beautiful San Feliu!!

Interested in parasitology? Looking to do a PhD? Cone join me and @geordieparasit.bsky.social in Edinburgh as we try and work out how human parasites get their vitamins.

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! 🎉 We explore how Toxoplasma gondii organizes parasite development, combining cell biology and expansion microscopy to reveal new structural insights. #Toxoplasma @meissnerlab.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

There's still time to register for CoccidiaUK in London - it's going to be a jam-packed two days of talks by early-career parasitologists, a knowledge transfer session, plus trivia and prizes! It's @crick.ac.uk (very central) & we're cooking up some fun swag :) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coccidiauk...

Looking to start a PhD in October 2026 and learn about bioinformatics and the regulation of TGF-beta signalling in macrophages? Check out this PhD opportunity with a multidisciplinary team at the University of Edinburgh: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested in pursuing a PhD by working on a long-neglected marine organism and making a lot of discoveries? Darwin Trust offers a PhD studentship for international students (anyone non-UK) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

If you’re interested in solving bacterial mysteries, this PhD project is for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in @PLOSPathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogen... Led by previous PhD student @BacchettiRoss and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.