Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let’s continue to support and celebrate them, and fight for equal opportunities for women in STEM! Shout-out to @shubhabevkal.bsky.social and @fra-florini.bsky.social! You’re the best! #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Joyful snow day!

🦠 Grad students & postdocs in parasitology: Apply now for the Biology of Parasitism (BoP): Modern Approaches course at @MBLScience. Hands-on labs, expert lectures, and cutting-edge tools. 📅 Summer 2026 | ⏰ Deadline Feb 5 🔗 mbl.edu/courses

New paper out ! Want to learn more about fascinating proteasome biology and Artemisinin resistance in Malaria parasites ? Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Repost for World #AMR Awareness Week. #AntimicrobialResistance ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting news!!
I’ve been awarded an #SNSFStartingGrant and will join the Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor in summer 2026.
A dream come true! 🥺

✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀 ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26

Save the date, next Cryptosporidium meeting in Edinburgh May 24-26, 2026. Register for email updates via the QR code below.

As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The parasitesrule site has an archive of abstract books from the Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) & the Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting (KMCB). The book from the first MPM (1990) is also there! 🔗 parasitesrule.com/archive

Our latest story on Clofazimine resistance in Cryptosporidium! What started as a side project turned into one of the most interesting stories. Genetics 101 😊 #Cryptosporidium #Apicomplexa #Clofazimine #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #ParasiteResearch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 🧬 Parasite sex as a discovery tool — new insights into Cryptosporidium virulence! Huge thanks to my co-authors, collaborators & mentors 🙌 #Parasites #Cryptosporidium #Genetics #InfectiousDiseases #ForwardGenetics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How many red flags more will it take?

Happy #SwissNationalDay 🇨🇭 Meanwhile, Trump just slapped 39% tariffs on Swiss goods. How am I supposed to keep up my essential intake of cheese and chocolate? 🧀🍫

No ERC Starting Grant this time 😔 7 great reviews — and 1 that… didn’t quite agree. Time to go all in for the SNSF Starting Grant! 💪🏼 Interview in September 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

“Coachella of molecular parasitologists” 😜

Just had my ERC Starting grant interview. Now the wait is on! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

Genetic crosses reveal genomic loci responsible for virulence in Cryptosporidium parvum infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655157v1

🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨 We performed genetic crosses between phenotypically different Cryptosporidium strains and identified genomic loci responsible for their differences! #Cryptosporidium #Genomics #Parasitology #InfectiousDiseases #Preprint #BioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Out now! scRNA-seq reveals transcriptional plasticity of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum for host immune avoidance by @fra-florini.bsky.social @kirkdeitsch.bsky.social #MicroSky #Plasmodium 🦠🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to congratulate @fra-florini.bsky.social and Joe Visone for the publication of their recent work on antigenic variation by malaria parasites: rdcu.be/emjbn and an earlier version here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Francesca will present some of this work next week at BioMalPar 2025.

Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Two toddlers in a sandbox, flinging toys at each other because one wouldn’t share a shovel — each tantrum louder than the last, while the whole playground suffers from the mess.

Had a wonderful time in New York attending Joe’s defense (he rocked it!) and seeing my PhD buddies Francesca and Shubha and many more 😍

On my way back to Philadelphia after an amazing two-week trip! Spent time with family & friends in Switzerland, then headed to Würzburg for a joint parasitology meeting—caught up with old friends and made new ones. Great science, great people!

I wouldn’t sprint like it’s the Olympics for free food after a seminar.

Presented my work at the Joined Parasitology Spring Meeting in Wurzburg today! 😍

Stupidest way to waste money and undermine science in one go 💵 🚮 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

How many more red flags does it need?

Today I decided that my car wasn’t getting the mileage I wanted, so I put on a blindfold, took my socket wrench, and started randomly removing parts from the engine and throwing them away. Just kidding, I didn’t do that, because it would have been stuoid and counter-productive

Applying for a grant, pouring in hours of work, and then seeing that “You made it to the second round” email! 😍🥳🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 #StepByStep

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

🚨 Three weeks until the big Joint #Parasitology Spring Meeting 2025 with the BSP, SSTMP, and DGP!! 🚨 - 𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 - Würzburg, Germany - Website at parasitology-meeting.de - Registration at tinyurl.com/3x32vycr #parasitology

Switzerland, I miss you more than ever right now… www.bmj.com/content/388/...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟 March 7, 2025, DC and state capitals ! standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Super excited to go to Wurzburg in March to present my work on genetic crosses and virulence in Cryptosporidium! 😍 #parasitesrule

Go Birds!!! 🦅

Tired of pooping in solitude? Have a kid.

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York! Please share! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

💼 Two funded PostDoc positions (3 years) on Trypanosoma brucei and its interactions with blood vessels | Lisbon, Portugal | Labs: @luisamfigueiredo.bsky.social #GIMM and Cláudio Franco #BCR 🔬 #Parasite - vasculature interactions 🗓️ Start: by June 2025 🔗 Details: labex-parafrap.fr/en/job-offers

Grant proposal submitted! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻#Cryptosporidium #parasitesrule

Ezra’s having a meltdown because he thinks we missed a page in the book. We did not miss a page and now he is frantically searching for the “missed page”! #toddlerproblems

Going to buy a Christmas tree! Hannah wants the biggest tree that still fits into our apartment. Didn’t tell Natalie yet…

Hello? Anyone here? 😉