🔬 Just out in @NatureComms! Using cryo-CLEM and cryo-ET, we reveal the unique ultrastructure of dopaminergic varicosities in the striatum. Amazing collaboration with @davip-bdx.bsky.social and Etienne Herzog @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social Congratulations to Paul and Robin for this fantastic work! 🎉

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)! GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging. Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations. 👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

Thrilled to share that my postdoc paper has just been a published in @plosbiology.org ! Thank you to all co-authors, and a special thanks to Paul and Virginie @centriolelab.bsky.social for their support throughout this work. Proud of what we achieved together! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Huge congratulations to @hakimi.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 INSERM Research Award! 🎉 We’re extremely proud to have him as part of LabEx ParaFrap. 👉 : presse.inserm.fr/prix-inserm-...

Very happy to share our work on lipopolysaccharide assembly by the Lpt complex, published today in @natcomms.nature.com Fantastic collaboration with @raffaeleieva.bsky.social l and t @pstansfeld.bsky.social Congrats to all authors, especially Haoxiang, Axel & Violette 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our latest T7SS study is now out in Science Advances! We solved the cryoEM structure of the T7SSb core unit (T7bCU) composed of YukB, YukC, and YukD from Bacillus subtilis, revealing how these components assemble within the secretion machinery. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Agenda 📆Samedi 22/11, le département Sciences biologiques et médicales (SBM) de l’université de Bordeaux ouvre les portes de ses laboratoires de recherche afin de faire découvrir ses activités scientifiques et techniques : www.u-bordeaux.fr/ev...

Honored to receive the FEBS Booster Funds 2025. My sincere thanks to FEBS for this recognition and their support of early-career researchers. This funding will greatly help advance my work. Congratulations as well to all fellow 2025 awardees.

We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the HR link (elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...). Find out more about us in the link below.

#FungiDB/#VEuPathDB & #Ensembl are teaming up to improve #fungal & #oomycete genome resources for #phytopathogens — & we want your input! 🧬🍄 🗓️ Complete the survey by Nov 1, 2025: 🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1 Your feedback will guide genome curation, annotation & data integration #genomics #foodsecurity

The flagellar pocket collar (FPC) is a cytoskeletal structure essential for nutrient uptake & immune evasion in #Trypanosome. @mbonhivers.bsky.social &co use U-ExM to provide novel insights into FPC biogenesis, and reveal 2 unknown cytoskeletal structures @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3bWi6

ResultatScientifique🔎| Le VIH profite d’une protéine humaine pour mieux s’installer dans notre ADN : une découverte qui ouvre de nouvelles pistes pour le combattre 🦠 ✍️ Vincent Parissi 📕 @natmicrobiol.nature.com | buff.ly/Hqeu6kO

Congrats to all authors, especially Lim who had an impressive PhD viva last week! TAC is a very interesting structure linking mitochondrial DNA and basal bodies in trypanosomes

🏅 Muriel Priault, chercheuse CNRS à l'IBGC*, a remporté le Prix Académique lors de la 10ᵉ édition de Cosmetic Victories, concours international organisé par la Cosmetic Valley. Ce prix distingue les projets de recherche les plus innovants dans le domaine cosmétique :

The results of the demo of the MINFLUX on our samples were stunning. It is unlikely that we will get such a system in the short term, but the good news is that we are ready for some proper high-res SMLM fun !

#Trypanosoma, fixed, expanded, and imaged with #STED, stained for tubulin. Scale bar refers to expanded specimen, original structures are 3-3x smaller. Image courtesy: @mbonhivers.bsky.social, MFP, CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, France #fluorescencefriday #ExM #STEDmicroscopy

Chaires de Professeur Junior (CPJ) 2025 www.mfp.cnrs.fr/wp/emploi/ch...

Communication institutionnelle @univbordeaux.bsky.social à propos de la plateforme de #cryoEM @iecb.bsky.social

🧵 Ever wondered what Toxoplasma is doing in your brain years after that undercooked steak 🥩 or a sip of contaminated water? Turns out, it's been hiding in your brain 🧠and we finally have a way to spot it. New study just dropped in EMBO Molecular Medicine 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

We are recruiting 🤩🤩🤩!!! If you are looking to establish your lab in a multidisciplinary institute with state-of-the-art facilities, horizontal structure and diverse faculty, all in a near-paradisiac city in the south-west of France, you have 6 weeks left to submit your application 🤓!!!

Une nouvelle cible thérapeutique contre la maladie du sommeil ? 🧬 Des chercheurs ont identifié une protéine clé chez le trypanosome, le parasite responsable. 🤝 @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social buff.ly/lf9dYGp

An ISWI-related chromatin remodeller regulates stage-specific gene expression in #Toxoplasma gondii. By Belen Pachano (ParaFrap PhD student) et al., team @hakimi.bsky.social. In @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are recruiting 🤩🤩🤩!!! If you are looking to establish ylur lab in a multidisciplinary institute with state-of-the-art facilities, horizontal structure and diverse faculty, apply!!!

1/ Last call for the EMBL-UNESCO Residency Programme! ⏳ If you’re a female African scientist working in infection biology, this is your opportunity to develop scientific skills while fostering collaboration across borders. 🙌 Apply until 31 March 2025. www.embl.org/about/info/s...

💼 Associate Professor / Toxoplasma / Bordeaux-France 🎓 Teaching: animal biology, metazoan diversity & phylogeny (Bachelor 1,2,3) 🔬 Research: Apicomplexa parasites, focusing on Toxoplasma gondii. @ MFP Lab (UMR5234) @univbordeaux.bsky.social . 🗓️ Deadline: April 4 labex-parafrap.fr/en/job-offer...

#IWD2025 is an important day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural & political achievements, but it's also a good occasion to call for gender equality. The #SheFigures report on R&I describes the challenges women researchers face, but also highlights ideas to help them. 🔗 buff.ly/3EJDkB4

Assistant prof / MCF post available in ProParaCyto.

📣Stand Up for Science ! En écho au mouvement américain "Stand Up For Science" et face aux menaces pesant sur nos institutions, France Inter a accueilli dans son 7/10 les scientifiques Alain Fisher, Valérie Masson-Delmotte et Olivier Berné.

In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

📅 Save the Date! The EMBO Workshop "Host-Parasite Relationship: From Mechanisms to Control Strategies" organized by @ParaFrap will take place on October 5-8, 2025, at Les Embiez Island. Stay updated on registration opening —enter your email here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-83 #Science #Parasite

“Join the Pigino Lab! We’re hiring a PhD student to explore primary cilia biology using advanced imaging, spatial ‘omics, and AI. Apply now at www.cilia-ai.eu and be part of the Cilia-AI Doctoral Network!”

@ird-fr.bsky.social @dndi.org and Institut Pasteur de Guinée welcome the @who.int validation for the elimination of sleeping sickness in Guinea ↘️

In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️, Dan Kaplan, a professor in the departments of immunology and dermatology, talks about why it sometimes pays to scratch that itch. 🎧 Listen here: https://scim.ag/3PURQZ8

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

December 19: CNRS announces a bold Christmas policy: taking 10% of the money in some lab accounts (“unmarked accounts”, i.e., money outside of specific contracts… typically used for long-term projects). Announced after closing of admin for winter break, meaning you can't spend it last minute. Nice!

Welcome to the Bluesky page of the LabEx ParaFrap, the French network bringing together 25 parasitology groups. Here you'll find news about ParaFrap and the parasitology community, job offers, meeting announcements... Follow us!

🧪♻️🔬The first of six in our blog series on how to make labs more sustainable is out. Jeroen Dobbelaere offers an overall picture of academia’s environmental impact. Read more: https://bit.ly/4irS2Mn #sustainability #ClimateChange #SciSky #SustainableLabs

Congratulations to our @iecb.bsky.social and MFP colleague Nicolas Reyes for his medal from the French académie des sciences (médaille de la section de Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, génomique). @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social