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...

Exploring the chromatin proteome of Trypanosoma brucei repetitive elements (telomeres, centromeres, 70bp repeats, 177bp repeats) using TALEs. Another great collaboration with @allshire-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.

Not the Oscars, but super proud of daughter #1s video editing for the Glasgow fashion show

We've previously looked at the developmental biology of trypanosome infections in mice, but parastaemias are unnaturally high in mice compared to cattle. Read what happens in cattle when blood parasitaemias are low and so quorum sensing may be limited... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really interesting day discussing impacts of climate change on vector borne diseases workshop today. Lots of great science and discussion about exciting projects to take forwards. @keithrmatthews.bsky.social #reecelab @roslininstitute.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social

Having played a small part in a manuscript to be published in the journal 'Bioinformatics' I was interested to read the inaugural article about the journal from founding editor Rob Beynon in 1985. Worth a read (I hope OA) to see how things move on. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

As the world marks Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, researchers from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social are collaborating with the #RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh and #UnitingtoCombatNeglectedTropicalDiseases to host a free, public exhibition 31 Jan - 4 Feb. Get tickets now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amplifying...

Breakfast with colleagues at a conference when you’ve just received mixed reviews on your latest paper

The Institute kindly provided us with a new board to display our papers. Only a selection, but each one of them brought back such strong memories of the people involved, their effort, the setbacks, the battles with referees and final celebration. Important not to forget the stories behind any paper!

I’ve been enjoying the Apple Intelligence summaries of iMessages. But it gave me a fright when we were planning a trip to my mother-in-law’s and not sure whether to take some lunch as she hadn’t phoned to confirm. The AI message from my wife flashed up as “mum unresponsive, not taking food”

How SPPIRIT is transforming early career profiles in Parasitology in Scotland www.cell.com/action/showP...

Many thanks to the @siegel-lab.bsky.social, to our collaborators @allshire-lab.bsky.social and @keithrmatthews.bsky.social,and to the funding agencies that supported this project.

Congratulations to all at the Siegel group - Christmas comes (a little) early! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genes linked to deadly parasites’ spread beyond Africa identified. Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to key genes. @keithrmatthews.bsky.social @goldrieve.bsky.social Full article: shorturl.at/9jlGS

Excited to share our work on life cycle simplification (monomorphism) in Trypanosoma brucei in Nature Comms @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What good way to start with Bluesky! Delighted to share our paper on how non-tsetse transmitted trypanosomes lose the ability to make stumpy forms (and adapt to the monomorphic life style) and so can spread outside Africa. A great reward after years of hard work from Guy Oldrieve ! rdcu.be/d13YK

Here’s my spreadsheet of starter packs (>80!) related to broadly ‘mechanistic biology’ plus some intriguing extras Complete with collective nouns I’ve been tracking these but now can’t keep up Hope it’s helpful 2/2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...