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Honoured & grateful to have received an MPM Travel Grant and have the opportunity to present my PhD research at my first MPM 🇺🇸 Amazing science, inspiring discussions & a fantastic community of parasitologists – what a milestone in my journey. @parasitesrule.org #MPM2025 #Parasitology

What a surreal feeling seeing my first preprint manuscript 🤩🥳 Please go have a look at our “hot off the press” preprint from the Birkholtz Lab where we validate a PfArk1 tool compound and use it to investigate the biological function of PfArk1 during multiple parasite stages

📢Our latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week’s list focusses on research using microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see included. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/27/m...

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Youhooooo @benliffner.bsky.social postdoc work has been highlighted in his local news back in Australia. How amazing is that! I am sure he is inspiring many young Australian to do Science. whyallanewsonline.com.au/news/2025/06...

New study showing the development of pan-Expansion Microscopy by Morgan et al. @luskinglab.bsky.social to reveal the molecular composition and structural plasticity of individual nuclear pore complexes including LINC complex-dependent dilation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Just returned from an incredible week at BioMalPar 🧬🥼🧫🧪 in Germany — a truly memorable experience both scientifically and personally. Grateful for the opportunity to engage with leading minds in malaria research, forge new connections, and experience the beauty and culture of Germany🇩🇪

Discover how Dr. Jason Zhang (@jasonzxzhang.bsky.social) leveraged Cell Press's #MultiJournalSubmission to publish in Cell Chemical Biology: www.cell.com/multi-journa... Read the full paper "De novo designed Hsp70 activator dissolves intracellular condensates" here: www.cell.com/cell-chemica...

Shared some really exciting science from the Birkholtz Lab on antimalarial drug discovery and P. falciparum biology—spotlight on Aurora kinases. Thank you @H3D for this opportunity PS: Yes, that’s me at the back, while being a bit star struck🤩

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An in vivo imaging technique can track the way molecules move through the nucleus https://go.nature.com/4iXSGAT

Don't panic 😱 #phd #phdstudent #academicsky

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

Would have loved to be able to be there in person, but excited and proud to see a great colleague and a great friend in James Blauwkamp deliver a fantastic PhD Defence! Been a wonderful experience to see you grow as a scientist over the years and excited to see what's next 🎉 @sabsalon.bsky.social

This is a REALLY important thread about the threat to vaccine, vaccine access and vaccine design the new administration is. Do read

EMBO Practical Courses provide training in experimental techniques. Apply to organize your course by 1 March: https://www.embo.org/funding/funding-for-conferences-and-training/practical-courses/ #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences 🧪

📣Today-ParaFrap Webinar: Gretchen DIFFENDALL (Team A.Scherf @pasteur.fr): Metabolomics Identifies a Natural Host Cytoadhesion Inhibitor in Asymptomatic #Malaria Cases @parafrap.bsky.social Chairperson: A. CLAESSENS @ant1-claessens.bsky.social 🗓️ February 13, 3pm CET 🎟️ bit.ly/ParaFrapWeb

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Nobel laureates are calling on the National Academies and biotech CEOs to speak out against what they see as the Trump administration's attack on science.

“The leaders of the Human Genome Project always knew they were just starting a conversation” The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do https://go.nature.com/40BeQBh

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

Several databases at the #CDC have gone offline today. We know of some — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, AtlasPlus. There are undoubtedly more. If you are a researcher & use these databases, please share with @statnews.com how this will affect your work. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

I wrote for @natureportfolio.bsky.social about 'dark proteins' encoded by our genomes. Once overlooked, they may be central to cancers, cellular biology and evolutionary innovation. As @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social told me: "There's new biology here." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research https://go.nature.com/4gc0Bc5

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers https://go.nature.com/3EdzX56

It was unlawful in 2020 and it’s still unlawful in 2025. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. This will not be approved by Congress.

@sabsalon.bsky.social Look who's paper got the mSphere Cover Image

We have a feeling you'll be interested in this one. Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Take the survey! 🧪

📢#Postdoc opportunities: we are looking for two experienced and motivated researcher to join our WT funded projects on the role of the #Toxoplasma #mitochondria during #infection www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners Main sections that an average article should contain; elements that should appear in these sections, and some pointers for making the overall result attractive and acceptable for publication. halfonlab.ccr.buffalo.edu/other_docs/s...

Discussing publication venues consumes lots of attention and oxygen. Yet, the venues are secondary. We should be focussed on research that advances science and careers regardless of the publication venue. blog.slavovlab.net/2014/12/17/e...

Tips on How to Write ‘Good’ #Matter PDF download www.cell.com/action/showP...

Just let me be a scientist: The experienced, highly qualified postdoc is a valuable resource. PDF download www.embopress.org/doi/epdf/10....

A New Approach to Predicting Malaria Drug Resistance today.ucsd.edu/story/a-new-... Their "work reveals how to distinguish phenotype-driving variants from passengers, a key challenge of forward genetics approaches."

Please join us Friday 12th at noon EST for Dr. @zamanian.bsky.social seminar at Parasite hour with #PeersInParasitology where he will share his recent work on new targets and strategies for helminth control. Need a zoom link? Register here: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

I strongly recommend following this excellent network of parasitologists in France. They organize wonderful workshops at Les Embiez and train excellent students.

🚨 Joint #Parasitology Meeting Registration & Abstract Submission OPEN! 🚨 - Our 1st time hosting the BSP Spring meeting outside of the UK and with our friends at the Swiss STMP and Deutsche GP! - 11-14th March 2025 - Abstract submission at: tinyurl.com/5c2jn5zs #BSP2025 #Parasitology #NTDs

A reminder that the most productive science is done in collaborations

One of the few things you can count on during your PhD 😅

Delighted to share our first manuscript on @bsky.app on a novel SUN1-ALLAN complex in Plasmodium MTOC and NE organization. Many thanks @zeeshanm.bsky.social; @eelcotromer.bsky.social; @ryanase.bsky.social ; Tony; Sarah; David F; Karine; Igor; Cyrille; Declan. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I feel attacked by this meme 😂