This week I had the pleasure to tutor undergrad students in the wonderful wet lab of Cruciform building @ucl.ac.uk in what it was the former children ward of the hospital: beautiful mosaics of tales at the walls overlooking the main quad. My favourite was little red riding hood!

UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫 We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday! 📅11-13 February 2026. Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk

We’re pleased to announce our Trained Immunity Focus Issue 🎉 With original research and reviews spanning history, current state and future directions of trained immunity, explore today: buff.ly/OoqVRjM

📢 We're searching for a PhD-level Senior Research Scientist to develop a next-generation antibacterial drug discovery strategy for Gram-negative infections. If you're looking to combine CRISPRi and high-throughput assays, reach out to me by email or apply below. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

So fascinating! The evolution of London underground mosquitoes! I loved that in a parallel work they had specimens from the tube in the 1940ies!

Wonderful chance!! Especially for those great plasmodium and mosquito labs in the heart of the Charité campus in Berlin!

1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at bit.ly/3WnTVA1.

The incredibly fascinating biology of the flagellar pocket, the topic that made me fall in love with parasites! Great use of U-ExM

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Just watched this very gripping documentary on the Pasteur&Koch work and rivalry, exciting for both me and my non-scientists parents! Their contribution to the fight of infectious diseases is incredible! Bringing sweet memories of my time at the RKI and Pasteur youtube.com/watch?v=Zbni...

We are looking for researchers from across the UK to deliver innovative public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Up to £8,000. Deadline 15 October.

Two days with the Treeck lab in one the most special places in my heart @moritztreeck.bsky.social

Fascinating bug and great department!

When your bacteria delivery gets extra cute ❤️ @victoriachu.bsky.social

A unique chance!

Fascinating! Does this add a layer of interpretation to other cardiolipin-hijacking’s pathogens like Toxoplasma?

Excited the editor acknowledged this outstanding research:not only a crucial step forward in fighting a neglected disease, but also an impeccably executed host CRISPR screen of relevance for whoever interested in host-pathogen interaction!Congrats @ghostpathogen.bsky.social @saterialelab.bsky.social

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!

A MSc at LHSTM would have been my ultimate dream as student passioned in infectious diseases. Few days left to apply!

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

In my quest for an everything-proof marker I found this brilliant Reddit thread where somebody systematically tested several ones with 70%EtOH, water bath and for smudginess 😍 not all heroes wear capes! #lablife www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Looking forward to work with @virpc.bsky.social who got a prestigious EMBO Exchange Grant to use her urobiome samples on our 3D organoid model! Yes, urine is not sterile! We humans are a condo of bacteria outside and inside

Interesting cross-disciplinary technician position in our lab! You can learn all things microbiology and a beautiful organoid culture system while sitting in the heart of London @ucl.ac.uk ! Perfect for freshly graduated students. Apply! #UTISky #microbiology

Estetically pleasing AND colour blind-friendly! What’s not to like?

Monumental screen on gut organoids: the optimisation steps of the screen and the temperature correction for fitness-affecting virulence factors are 🤯

I hope you had a chance to look up and see this wonderful and rare full moon tonight! The glow above the London skyline was just stunning!

Inspiring science and dramatic London views at #UKcellmicro2025 . Looking forward to day2!

Our star @victoriachu.bsky.social giving a fantastic #pint25 talk with @nc3rs.bsky.social 🌟 with those numbers that always give me a headache (400 millions infections a year!) and the magic of human urine 🌟

Wonderful to see the monumental work of my colleague @hbelda.bsky.social out! He nailed the specificity of each member of an expanded family of kinases in primate malaria-causing parasites and found an inhibitor. And look at the stripey pattern of one of them in gams❤️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Big Announcement: Registration & abstract submission open for EMBO Workshop "Host-Parasite Relationship: From Mechanisms to Control Strategies" organized by ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social @embo.org 🗓️ 5-8 Oct 2025 - Les Embiez Island-France 🔚Deadline: 15 Jul 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-hos...

A yummy misspelling!

Shout out to the incredible service of @sourcebioscience.bsky.social : dropped samples for whole plasmid sequencing at 4pm, got the results at 9pm 🙌 a dream in fasta format

🎉 Finally online 🎉 GRA12, the first identified common virulence factor across Toxoplasma strains and murine subspecies! Check this improved manuscript after reviewers’ helpful suggestions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A truly special place with fantastic facility support!

Mechanisms of pathogens adaptation: my favourite topic for the wannabe PhD candidates out there!

Of all the -omes neologisms, i think Resistome is my favourite one! www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Receiving the email with the program of Les Embiez 2025 🫠 what an incredible dream of a conference! @parafrap.bsky.social

Are you interested in bacterial pathogen physiology 🧫 and their interactions with our tissues during infections? Alex and I wrote about how organoids + microbiology offer a powerful, tractable way to decode these interactions. Check it out! 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s443... @embojournal.org  #MicroSky

Absolutely mind-blowing list of speakers for this EMBO workshop on the most interesting topic. And location is the Château of Blois? 🤯 I remember visiting it as a kid in the beautiful Loire valley

I dreamt that I was inventing proximity labelling, I felt so smart and euphoric when I woke up still half asleep, then reality hit 🫠 next time!

Person next to me is flying to Rome from Bologna. I can’t believe this flight is even legal when you can be there with 2h comfortable high speed train! Last minute tickets are 60e only!

🚀 Join us at the UK Cellular Microbiology meeting at KCL on 2nd-3rd June 2025! 🌟 Registrations and abstract submissions opening soon! Don't miss this great opportunity to share research updates and network! #UKCellMicro

And that’s how a microbiologist pours plates! 65 in one go 🙌 creation of Victoria from the Rohn lab

In this International Day for women and girls in science I want to acknowledge the inspiring, supportive, smart and strong female scientists I’m surrounded with! Colleagues that become friends, I feel the luckiest on earth and there is so much we can and will do!

Super interesting symposium!

Ahhh those Toxo CRISPR screens! Sweet memories ❤️ phalloidin and Cas9 staining from @simon-butterworth.bsky.social

Rumors are true! I joined the very welcoming @jennyrohn.bsky.social lab at UCL to dive into 3D organoids, persistent bugs and GAG layer! Exciting times ahead ✨

I just discovered that in Spanish the plant gorse (in Italian: ginestra) is called toxo :)