Another "gift" from climate change: The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper. gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...

Chagas disease still affects millions of people not just in Latin America👇🏼

And we are in the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social !! Check it out

Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo

Also check on the interview to Ingrid, now a junior PI! 👏🏼🎉

Latest manuscript of our collaboration with Kildare Miranda and the fantastic Ingrid Augusto 👇🏻👇🏻

Dr Noelia Lander reviews the structure of #cAMP compartments in #Trypanosoma #cruzi. #Contractile #Vacuole #Environmental #Sensing #Flagellar #Distal #Metacyclogenesis #Osmoregulation #Signaling #Microdomains authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRke5Eb1x...

Kissing Bugs Are Creeping Into Florida Homes—and They’re Carrying a Dangerous Parasite A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds. gizmodo.com/kissing-bugs...

Registration and Abstract submission for MPMXXXVI are now open! Abstract submission deadline is June 27th, get yours in quickly. @rmc9z.bsky.social @mjgubbels.bsky.social @omarharb.org 🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Our research community has been under attack. We know how important the research we do is – without it, jobs will be lost, clinical trials will be canceled, and life-saving discoveries will never be made.  Please spread the word and sign the letter docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

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✍️Warning: application deadlines are closer than they appear!✍️ January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance! Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V #ScienceStartsHere

Last month we launched the Chagas Observatory—a new tool developed by @coalicionchagas.bsky.social, @worldheart.org, and DNDi, to monitor #ChagasDisease, one of the world’s most neglected diseases. 👉 Learn more here www.observatoriochagas.com