Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month!
Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Thank you to Prof Mike Barrett & @christina-naula.bsky.social & anyone else involved in organising our post-#BSP2026 field trip to see William Leishman's former home in Blairmore! We learned so much & got lucky again with the sunshine! www.blairmorehall.com <- Village Hall link to support them!
Out Now! Specialized RNA decay fine-tunes monogenic antigen expression in Trypanosoma brucei #MicroSky
(1/7) How does T. brucei achieve a 140-fold stoichiometric excess of VSG mRNA over upstream ESAGs from a single polycistronic unit?
Our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reveals a mechanism of spatially regulated RNA decay to fine-tune expression of virulence genes
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New PNAS study identifies ESBX, a protein controlling which surface coat gene is active in sleeping sickness parasites - key to immune evasion.
@tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social
@zephyris-science.bsky.social
@fariatrypslab.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
Grant writing is academia's least liked activity; most applications fail and time feels wasted. LLMs are therefore a huge draw, but if this means the number of applications increases 10-fold...
An ER-Inner Membrane Complex Bridge via VAP-VPS13A-DAT1 Drives Daughter Budding in Toxoplasma gondii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation
⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
Our user comments campaign may be over, but your user comments are welcome and valuable EVERYDAY!
Crowdsourced user knowledge fuels discovery and helps keep gene data accurate, accessible, and impactful. Visit any gene page on @veupathdb.org or component sites to add a comment!
I was interviewed by Josh Learn for DISCOVER magazine to discuss the fascinating (and surprisingly common) parasite Toxoplasma gondii
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
www.discovermagazine.com/this-cat-par...
Anyone?
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
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
We are hiring. Please RT 🙏
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
🧬 Scientists led by Prof. Petr Volf at the Department of Parasitology discovered key proteins behind Leishmania transmission, a step toward reducing this disease affecting hundreds of thousands globally 🌍💡
More here: 1url.cz/3Jjac
Join me on 16 Sept 8-9 AM (Boston time Zone i.e. 3 PM KSA) as I present my R package on how to access VEuPathDB component databases and several other database virtually in MPM XXXVI conference.
rohit-satyam.github.io/plasmoRUtils...
#plasmodium #pathogen
@veupathdb.org @parasitesrule.org
The @veupathdb.org team is excited to be attending the MPM conference this week!
💬 Stop by our booth to chat with us
⌨️ Participate in our User Comments campaign- share your knowledge on gene pages and pick up your free "Got Parasites?" mug at the booth: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
Favorite time of the year!
The key takeaway is captured in this sentence from our paper:
"Cataloging proteome-wide PPIs is more than mere stamp collecting—it is a critical step in unraveling the intricate complexity of biological life."
Our latest publication in mBio!
We used the DSBSO crosslinker to map a Toxoplasma gondii interactome. By leveraging previously known biological features, we trained a machine learning model to filter out mediocre hits and strengthen the quality of the interactome.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Toxoplasma facing career options:
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
It's getting more and more dystopian here. And no one is talking about this.
ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.
