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.

Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️ A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria

Excited to share our new paper! Tepsin and AP4 mediate transport from the trans-Golgi to the plant-like vacuole in Toxoplasma gondii. A great collaboration between the Meissner, Jiménez-Ruiz, and Dacks labs 🙌 #Toxoplasma #Apicomplexa #Golgi #CellBiology #Parasites

We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the HR link (elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...). Find out more about us in the link below.

Delighted to share this story from my PhD! 🎉 🪱

From nutrient acquisition to drug resistance, membrane transport is especially important for intracellular parasites! This review will help you stay up-to-date on the latest transport research for crypto/malaria/toxo: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Latest McSorley lab paper is out! Led by Vivien @vshek.bsky.social, this is a story about the immunomodulators from H. polygyrus bakeri (Hpb), and how their analysis led to the identification of HpBoRB, a secreted protein which binds host RELM-beta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[We are Hiring!] The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM. This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis. DM for more info!

The Plant Shape Lab is hiring! Are you interested in supporting cutting edge cereal research? We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated technician to join us for 2 years, setting up and running cereal transformation. Find out more, and apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢 7 weeks to go until our SPPIRIT symposium A fantastic opportunity for ECR parasitologists across Scotland to network and showcase their research. 🗓️ 31 October 2025 | 📍 Roslin Institute, Edinburgh 🎟️ Free to attend → tinyurl.com/3yzjnm5h Secure your spot today!

Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026! Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission! Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟

Don't miss the chance to learn from an industry expert in drug discovery and connect with the Tryps Club community! 🌍✨

The trypanosomal TAC is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. We provide insight into TAC assembly: one of the most extreme sorting event for any mitochondrion. Congratulations to Philip, Salome and Bernd #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

SULSA is running an Industry Academia conference on 28th & 29th October. Looks fantastic for researchers working in Scotland- particularly good for students interested in learning more about industry & working on skill development! sulsa.ac.uk/indac/

Now available in a polished format! An important step toward accelerated functional genomics for the Cryptosporidium parasite. Brought to you by the incomparable @lucy-watson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Only one week left until SPPIRIT Forum meeting! Join us to discuss recent work on mosquito tissue ultrastructure-expansion microscopy for malaria research, and ask questions to the 1st author, @benliffner.bsky.social, who will join us! For meeting link fill in: tinyurl.com/3j5ewezv

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We've already shown mosquito infections vary by time-of-day, here we test whether infection of mice FROM mosquitoes vary in a rhythmic manner. We test this in untreated & drug treated mice as some fitness consequences are only apparent in stressful environments doi.org/10.1186/s130...

We’re pleased to share our new study, led by @jezieldamasceno.bsky.social, that used long-read, single molecule sequencing to reveal the full (?) picture of Leishmania DNA replication. Thanks, Mike Boemo and helpful reviewers @uofgsii.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am recruiting for a postdoc that wants to work on an exciting project on gut macrophages, TGFb signalling, and colon cancer! Please see the link for details - elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Hi there! Our group at LMU Munich is hiring a postdoc to work on Toxoplasma and Plasmodium. Start: from Oct 1, 2025 | Location: Munich, Germany 1-year contract with extension possible Apply by Aug 31: bit.ly/LMUpostdoc Contact: [email protected]

My attempt to become a professor was unsuccessful again but the diplonema tagging paper is now published in Open Biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 2-year post-doc position available in my lab. More details below. Please repost! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📣 Open postdoc position in my lab to investigate how Toxoplasma acquires nutrients. Join me at the University of Edinburgh. Closing date 14th August. More details below ⬇️ elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Great opportunity with a great supervisor.