A single-cell atlas of Toxoplasma sexual development in the feline intestinal tract Nature Microbiology - Single-cell RNA sequencing is used to study the sexual development of Toxoplasma gondii in cats, generating a transcriptional atlas and showing that the female-specific gene...

Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done!

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Our last manuscript is out! 🚨

We identify double stranded RNAs in embryonic stem cells - full of transposons, especially young LINEs and LTRs 🧐

🧬Happy Friday Reading🧬

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to #BSP2026 in beautiful, sunny Glasgow!!! (We asked the weather to behave while everyone was around)! The @bspparasitology.bsky.social 2027 meeting will be in Cardiff! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! Like Glasgow, People Make #Parasitology! 🥳🧬🧫🔬

Come and find us at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026! 👋

Find out about our upcoming events, share your feedback, and see how you can get involved with the committee.

And if nothing else... our goodies might just tempt you 😉

We open with @sheinerlab.bsky.social introducing a scientist who needs no introduction - Dominique Soldati-Favre. Dominique was awarded lifetime membership to the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for her immeasurable contributions to the field. #bsp #parasites #peoplemakeglasgow

Logo for the 2026 BSP Spring meeting of buildings in Glasgow and parasites flying above them

Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social

New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism.
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our first lab preprint: A real team effort to understand the Plasmodium GAPM proteins, which form part of a essential bridge between the parasite's cytoskeleton and motility apparatus. Below is a sneak peek of some beautiful microscopy - light and electron! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Job opportunity for a #FlowCytometry technician, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK. We do cool flow with fungi, bacteria, diatoms, space particles, as well as mammalian cells. Spectral, conventional and sorts. Join us! Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Honored and proud to be elected EAM member. Huge thanks to mentors, my amazing team (past&present), the great parasitology community @parasitesrule.org @parafrap.bsky.social for support throughout this journey @inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @frm-officiel.bsky.social

Microbial upcycling of plastic waste to levodopa Nature Sustainability - The production of high-value chemicals can involve energy-intensive processes, necessitating sustainable production strategies. Here the authors present a circular...

It feels cheesy when people say this but it really was a privilege to be part of this work.
Our recent paper (led by the fantastic Ben Royer @swallacelab.bsky.social) shows how engineered Ecoli can turn the main product of PET plastic breakdown it into an anti-Parkinsons drug (L-DOPA)
rdcu.be/e84ZO

A composite graphic of Dr Mariana Ferreira Silva in a portrait style with a plain grey background with the other half of the graphic the FAPESP logo against a blue background

🆕 | Sii's Dr Mariana Ferreira Silva has been awarded a Young Investigator Grant from FAPESP to establish a research group at the University of São Paulo.

The group will investigate how the ubiquitination system contributes to the Toxoplasma gondii life cycle.

🔗 More: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU604/p...

Join us next Friday to learn about working with different parasites and enhance your parasitology network!

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Fifty shades of iron: Unorthodox mechanisms of iron acquisition and utilization in blood-stage Plasmodium parasites Plasmodium falciparum parasites cause severe human malaria and depend on iron for essential metabolic processes during all phases of their complicated lifecycle, including when growing in human red bl...

Happy to announce a new review article by MD/PhD student Kade Loveridge on iron metabolism in #malaria #parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

📆 Join us for the scientific session of the ParaFrap Next Generation in Parasitology Workshop (May 18-21, 2026, Montpellier) !

🧑‍🔬 Junior PIs will present their work. Registration is free but mandatory (includes lunch & coffee breaks).

Spots are limited, register now!
👉 forms.gle/bYsb47iZG7pR...

A great collaboration of my group with @herassr.bsky.social and @heick.bsky.social groups searching for mammalian dsRNAs and their importance to human disease 🧬

UZH: Postdoc The newly founded Cryptosporidium lab at the Institute of Parasitology focuses on the genetic and transcriptomic basis of parasite virulence and persistence in Cryptosporidium and is committed to incl...

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨
I’m moving back to Switzerland this summer to launch my lab at the University of Zurich and am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (start: late 2026).
Details & application:
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie....

Please share! 😊

Want to computationally analyse a genome's-worth of protein localisations? Have data for 4.5 million cells at your fingertips using this Python tool to access TrypTag.org data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (we're out of beta and releasing on time 🎂)

Very excited to share our work, a fish herpesvirus' cryo EM structure. It features a long PVAT tail, with new and host-like proteins discovered using modelAngelo, Dali, and Viro3D, including a host-like macrodomain
doi.org/10.64898/202...
@dbhella.bsky.social @grovearmada.bsky.social

Image of a herpesvirus structure

I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists

(see more in thread below)

Registration
Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026.
Regular Monday 10th August 2026.
There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...

Congratulations to Barrack, we are very excited to welcome him here in Edinburgh.

Safeguarding the powerhouse: antibody-based characterisation of trypanosome mitochondrial quality control proteins at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Safeguarding the powerhouse: antibody-based characterisation of trypanosome mitochondrial quality control proteins at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com

🧬Fully Funded PhD
Mitochondria|Protein Homeostasis|Antibody Technologies
🤝In collaboration with @menzieslab.bsky.social and Nick Robinson
@blslancasteruni.bsky.social
🎓UK students only
⏰6th March 2026
📩Enquiries: c.dewar1@lancaster.ac.uk
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#phdopportunity #mitochondria

If you are a committed scientist who wishes to work with Toxoplasma or with organelles (or both!!) - come work with us:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Please share!
PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

LAST CALL! Come join me at Glasgow University for evolutionary structural biology! We have fully positions.

Computational Postdoc:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Structural Postdoc:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Technician:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici...

FYI were starting weird structure/evolution/biology stuff at Glasgow University!

If you're interested let me know! Tell your friends!

CRYO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

BIOINFO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

TECHNICIAN www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici...

#science #hiring #evolution