New research led @ndeyfa2.bsky.social, a PhD student @lshtm.bsky.social shows #malaria drug resistance isn’t driven by a single mutations but a complex combination of genetic changes that help parasites with legacy mutations survive newer treatments. Read more 👉 bit.ly/49aMu5W

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.

In celebration of #WorldMalariaDay we bring you the next sketch in our WiM series featuring Krystal Mwesiga Birungi & Dr Federica Bernardini @targetmalaria.org Read more about their work on targetmalaria.org/profiles/spo... & targetmalaria.org/profiles/spo... Sketch: Sophia and Thorey #WIM

Excited to be a @bsky.app user! Looking forward to connecting with amazing people on the network. Let’s talk #malaria, #healthpolicy, #healthfinancing, #biomedicalsciences or #climatechange.

2 weeks to go until the BioBlitz and Open Day at Fishponds Playing Fields. Explore wildlife around the field with the iNaturalist app and hear about plans for the community garden and pavilion. Sat 25 April 2:30-4:30pm #tooting @inaturalist.bsky.social @tootingnewsie.bsky.social

Thanks to every author who contributed, ideas, data and time to this: Amy Ibrahim, @robmoon.bsky.social, @eelcotromer.bsky.social, Jani R. Bolla, Dušan Živković, Mohammad Zeeshan, Andrew Bottrill and Declan Brady. It was a real pleasure to write this all up!

Apply by 11th May to do a PhD @lshtm.bsky.social Work with epidemiologists, social scientists & modellers to understand quality of life measures in Syphilis and develop evidence on cost-effectiveness of interventions & public health strategies. @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @joetucker.bsky.social

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Do you: 1) Live near/in Buffalo? 2) Like to organize stuff? 3) Hate what the government is doing to science? If you answered yes, help me organize the Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! I need reps from UB, Buff State, Canisius, D’Youville to spread the word. I need general support. DM me!

New PNAS study identifies ESBX, a protein controlling which surface coat gene is active in sleeping sickness parasites - key to immune evasion. @tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social @zephyris-science.bsky.social @fariatrypslab.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Check out our latest study on the PfRIPR protein, essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.

Very excited to take part in this BBC world service programme on the future of malaria elimination. My first ever radio interview. The editors worked wanders! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

🌍👏 We’re proud to share that @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social, group leader at the Institut Pasteur, has been selected as an EMBO Young Investigator 2025! This program supports outstanding young scientists building their labs across Europe and beyond. More : www.embo.org/funding/fell... @embo.org

For #FollowFriday: Follow LSHTM's centres, projects & groups for more on work to tackle some of the biggest challenges in #PublicHealth 👉 go.bsky.app/4FczAGW

Knowing where proteins are in the cell is often the first step to understanding what they do, so this is an incredibly exciting dataset for the malaria parasite community! Can’t wait to dive in to it!

London Interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @robmoon.bsky.social – to study the role of novel genes in #malaria transmission. Apply here👇 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

Our lab has two funded PhDs to start in 2026 via the NorthWestBio programme Project details here www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... ...and here www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... Application deadline is Nov 21st 2025; apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

I'm giving a free public talk asking 'How certain is certain enough?' at @lshtm.bsky.social on Monday 24th November at 5.30pm, as part of the Global Health Lecture Series. From epidemic response and clinical trials to online misinformation and AI, I'll look at how truth emerges – and why it falters.

🚨 New @who.int guidance for malaria in crisis settings 🌍 🦟 Dr Bhargavi Rao, co-author, highlights the significance of the manual for frontline workers and the need to integrate malaria control into broader emergency response. Read more: bit.ly/469Q1kd

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

An exciting opportunity to start an independent position as a research fellow in protozoan parasitology at Christ's College, Cambridge and the Department of Pathology: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52020/

For those interested in Masters in lab and field based research in infectious disease we have 3 fantastic programmes to choose from MSc Immunology, medical parasitology and entomology and medical microbiology. They benefit from very flexible module choices and summer projects in UK and abroad!

Delighted to share the final version of Richard Zhou's study on how the CD163 scavenger receptor cleans up after toxic haemoglobin spills out from our blood cells. An amazing grabber mechanism! rdcu.be/ewPA2

From surviving malaria as a child to leading cutting-edge research on drug resistance in Africa. Dr Fitsum Tadesse @lshtm.bsky.social is fighting the parasite from both sides. A powerful story of science, and resilience 🧬🌍 Read his journey @NatureMicrobiol 📄 👉 bit.ly/4nWsb22

🦠 “An honour to present” — @leen-vanheer.bsky.social shares insights from the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Malaria. From rising resistance in Ethiopia to promising progress in SE Asia, her talk spotlighted urgent AMR trends in Plasmodium falciparum. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ef5C4o

Our latest story describes the amazing evolutionary battle between malaria parasite and human. The parasite evolved RIFINs to bind inhibitory KIR receptors and suppress immune cell function while humans have activating KIR receptors to bind these RIFINs to kill parasites!

Yes as I found providing fathers access to leave via a transferable entitlement, as UK’s SPL, exacerbates gendered parenting norms and does not provide parents means to imagine the feasibility of sharing leave / care in practice (for shorter read!: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...)

Researchers at @lshtm.bsky.social, led by @josebengoechea.bsky.social, will conduct a £2.2M study funded by UK MRC to investigate how Klebsiella pneumoniae silently colonises the gut before causing deadly infections. 🔬🦠 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4mNSreh

🇧🇼 Botswana’s Health Minister Dr. Stephen Modise visited @lshtm.bsky.social to strengthen ties in global health and infectious disease control. Discussions focused on malaria elimination and equitable access to health education. #GlobalHealth #Malaria Read more 👉 bit.ly/43PcZf1

Nawsad presented our structure-guided design of RH5top, our latest blood stage-malaria vaccine immunogen, in talk and poster at the Malaria Gordon conference. The culmination of many studies from the lab and collaborators and doing well in pre-clinical testing! More soon.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Want to be part of a diverse student community making a difference in #GlobalHealth? Our #students & recent graduates tell us why they chose to study with us, from inspiring lecturers to 1st class research, a truly global network & warm welcome 🌎 Find out more👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/intern...

@sturalph.bsky.social giving the laudatio for Dominique who receives the Lifetime Achievement Award for malariology at BioMalPar. #EMBLMalaria

It’s the most wonderful (conference) time of the year. 🎶 Happy to be a part of BioMalPar XXI @EMBL in Heidelberg (obligatory picture of the ATC below 😊). Come see me at poster number 44 tomorrow to see what we have been up to. #EMBLMalaria

Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25

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 weeks today (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not. Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

Come join our friendly team! Super cool parasites, an exciting project, the world’s best snacks…what’s not to love? Oh, and the people are pretty great too! 🥰

The KnuepferLab is hiring! Our team is looking for a highly motivated, experienced molecular parasitologist to expand our group as a postdoctoral researcher at the RVC. Follow either link below for more information on the project and the job offer: lnkd.in/eprgmaE9 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY962/p...

Very proud of the high and consistent mosquito infections the LSHTM MTF is getting! So vital for many of our research projects!

Ahead of #WorldMalariaDay2025, @lshtm.bsky.social ’s Human Malaria Transmission Facility reports its most successful P. falciparum / A. coluzzii infections to date—advancing lab-based research in the global fight against malaria. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lL8YiA

Join our expert panel this #WorldMalariaDay as we ask: What next for malaria research in a time of crisis? Hear from global health leaders on how we protect progress & refocus research in the face of funding cuts. 🗓️ Friday 25 April 🕧 12:30 BST 📍 LSHTM | Online 🔗 bit.ly/42nuDEF

Keep VEuPathDB open-access to all by subscribing today! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

This won't just affect the US. This is terrible news for biomedical research as a whole, the staff and students and all the people who would benefit from their work. It's insane

Exciting 2 year postdoc position with Ed Parker at LSHTM working on vaccines in EHR: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes April 7. Visa eligible.

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

I can't even. Never in my life did I imagine we would witness such utter contemptuous behavior from the leaders of the most powerful country in the world. Absolutely disgraceful. And exceptionally emblematic of how utterly misguided we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Congratulations to Dr Fitsum Tadesse on winning the prestigious @lshtm.bsky.social Greenwood Africa Award for his outstanding contributions to the control of infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa His work is making a significant impact in the fight against malaria in Africa. 👇 bit.ly/3XoZC1t

In this perspective piece, @robmoon.bsky.social and Ellen Bushell discuss two landmark papers published in @science.org that conducted a genome-wide screen of the zoonotic malaria parasite P. knowlesi, identifying which of its 5,000 genes are essential for blood-stage growth. 👉 bit.ly/3Xuv7Yj

To all our many, many friends in US academia - how can we help as you fight new fires on a daily basis? Experiments, analyses, collaborative visits, hosting you for sabbaticals…? Just say the word. We are behind you 100% ❤️ 🧪🧬🔬🌎🌏🌍