New funding opportunity from the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. We’re inviting teams of two researchers to pursue ambitious, high-risk projects advancing aquatic symbiosis (marine + freshwater). Open globally. Details + how to apply:  moore.org/SymbiosisRFP #RFP #AquaticSymbiosis

thinking about Woody Guthrie today woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...

#WorldHepatitisSummit poster - our team shared #CommunityEngagement experience from our 'EVOLVE' #HBV project in #SouthAfrica to enhance interventions for #hepatitis #elimination. 🧪 👏 #WHS2026 #NoHep #MedSky #LiverSky @ahri-news.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Really important and relevant study in TB from @danbarberphd.bsky.social and colleagues. We need to re-think many assumptions. Nitric oxide production in mice has been a confounding factor. #tuberculosis

Wan’t to be faculty at a collegial host-pathogen focused department in a beautiful bikable city with amazing food? This link is for you: facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...

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.

The IMPRS-BAC is an outstanding PhD program in Europe. And the endogenous retroviruses in development... what can I say? So much exciting biology to uncover! 🦠🧬#TEsky #StemCells Read the instructions and apply! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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...

Who-cysts? OOCYSTS! That's right, it's almost time for ❄️Coccidia UK 2025❄️ Your one-stop shop (/conference) for all like-minded sporulating apicomplexan parasites! This year we're in London @crick.ac.uk, looking forward to welcoming parasitologists from across the UK. Register- tinyurl.com/4ny5bwu2

My background is in molecular microbiology and parasitology, with a focus on malaria drug resistance. I’ve worked across international collaborations, mentored, and published in high-impact journals. Open to research, project-management, or education-focused roles in academia, govt or industry.

I’ve recently been made redundant from my role at UNSW due to the NIH’s decision to cancel foreign subawards. It’s an unfortunate situation affecting a lot of great researchers, and I’m now on the lookout for something new. If anyone knows of any molecular biologist roles coming up, let me know!

We are so excited to see the new avenues for research this will create! 👏👏👏 @ghostpathogen.bsky.social @lottabaumgaertel.bsky.social @netanyabernitz.bsky.social @tapokam.bsky.social @lucy-watson.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

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

Last chance to apply for great research tech #job in my friendly lab @uclmedsci.bsky.social in London! Cutting-edge organoid and microbiology work seeking to understand how probiotic bacteria might be deployed to fight urinary infection #UTI. Closes 23 July #UTISky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ902/r...

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!

Open call: If you are a researcher working on a project estimating a cause-specific burden of disease attributable to climate change at regional to global scales, please reach out! We're looking for researchers who might be interested in joining a new collaborative network / workshop series.

Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I used inducible CRISPR/Cas9 to make Trypanosoma brucei cell line that allowed me to edit originally muti-copy histone gene. We uncovered a novel role of H4 histone tail in gene regulation. I enjoyed working on this exciting project with @joanarcf.bsky.social, a great mentor. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Postdoc position open to investigate chronic Toxoplasma infection! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Very cool work! More proof we have a lot to learn about actin and associated nucleation factors from apicomplexans :)

Woody Guthrie's guitar... hello

Honoured to have been invited to give a hallowed GRiP-ing seminar yesterday in Glasgow! Thanks @abhinay.bsky.social for the invite and @uofgsii.bsky.social for hosting me! Now enjoying the classic Glaswegian weather 😁 (yesterday was beautiful though!)

90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3) tinyurl.com/DudinO

We are developing a simple, very cheap, low tech way to reduce malaria transmission. Instead of giving the antimalarials to people, we give them to the mosquitoes that spread the parasite. How do we drug a mosquito? Read on. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Had a great time at this, learned so much! Thank you again for having a parasitologist amongst you. Looking forward to more host-pathogen interaction interactions 😁

Make open access to tools and data part of your annual giving by making a tax deductible donation to @veupathdb.org. 💙This resource simplifies and supercharges global infectious disease research. Need more reasons to support VEuPathDB? Here's a short list: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

"Journal club" aka science hermeneutics

Need help with bioimage analysis? Contact the UK Euro-BioImaging Node to see how we can help! www.eurobioimaging-access.eu/nodes/uk-node

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Crick researchers have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis can directly cross the brain’s protective barrier, causing meningitis in up to 10% of cases. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

🚨 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...

Round 2 of the BIA Travel Awards are now open. If you are a trainee based in the UK or Ireland who has had an abstract accepted for a conference, find out more and apply before the closing date on 30th June 2025 👉 www.britishinfection...

Amazing work @hbelda.bsky.social and everyone! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships. The next deadline is 6 June Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb Please repost

In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Please see the new tour de force from @danaaghabi.bsky.social PhD! We think that we have finally found the major Toxoplasma iron/zinc importer. Thanks to ID21 at the @esrf.fr, and help from UGs and the lab. This is what I wanted to find when I started my lab, and thanks to Dana we have it!

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

Beautiful work on a 'transcendent' Toxoplasma virulence factor by a truly transcendent scientist. Congrats @fratorelli.bsky.social!!

In the silence of chromatin, Toxoplasma whispers change. TgSNF2h sculpts the genome - MORC in the backseat. Some genes wake. Others sleep. A dance of nucleosomes shaping space for life parasite stages to unfold. Now in Nature Microbiology: rdcu.be/ehkWp

Our study looking at sporozoite development and salivary gland invasion using expansion microscopy is now up as a pre-print! A little thread below about this interesting study that was born out of a seminar 🧵 @sabsalon.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For those still interested in infection and the brain - here is a nice mix of math and pathogens - that tests the function of latency and how the immune system deals with a neuronal infection. Lots going on here to dissect - but turns out latency benefits host and parasite. rdcu.be/efknc

Excited our preprint is out looking at BZ resistance in wild #Celegans, C. briggsae, and C. tropicalis strains! #anthelmintics 🪱🎉

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢 Call-out for #hepatitis B: If you have lived experience, or work in any capacity in this domain, we are working to gather global feedback on the impact of US federal funding cuts. Short questionnaire: forms.gle/f7dYA9vMpkjk... #HBV #USAID #PEPFAR #NIH #HepSky #LiverSky #MedSky #EpiSky #NoHep

Job: Closing 18/3/25. 3 year post, experienced scientist (NB: not new postdoc) to work in the areas of health inequalities, social determinants, climate & health www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA604/r.... Please share widely

"A society will die before its individual members, an individual before his cells, and a cell before its ferments have stopped working." - Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning immunologist, from his surprisingly funny and candid collection of essays in "The Uniqueness of the Individual"

Speechless. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...