As part of our BSP miniseries showcasing the work and journeys of our members, Christina Naula @christina-naula.bsky.social interviews @glasgow.ac.uk -based PhD student Shannara Eilean Smith @shannaraeilean.bsky.social about her idea and inspiration for the this year's BSP Spring Meeting logo.
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!
Deeply disappointing to see the UK reducing help of millions of people in need of basic essential health care. Years of bad policy making running the country against a wall while scapegoating foreigners for their own misfortune is resulting again in innocent people suffering around the globe.
As part of our "Supporting equity and diversity in Parasitology" Workshop, Dr Rafael Henry-Venson from @glasgow.ac.uk is showcasing the concept of Rainbow Office Hours - dedicated office hours hosted by LGBTQ+ staff to support LGBTQ+ students. 🏳️🌈
Join us for the next TrypsClub Career Talk!😊
The BSP spring meeting is not just offering great talks - we also have an exciting breakout program!
@christina-naula.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk and co-host of @microbetv.bsky.social This Week in Parasitism is interviewing Prof Poppy @lamberton-lab.bsky.social about her scientific career.
(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
The BSP TrypsClub is back from its winter break!
Join us for a discussion about #NTDs with Dr. Sabine Specht, Global Clinical Program Excellence Lead at Bayer AG, Switzerland.
Sign up here:
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Registration is open for our next TrypsClub Journal Club! 😊
If you fancy some cool Trypanosome science and a friendly supportive environment to discuss science then join us!
Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
3D-Animation of the nanobody (light yellow/semi-transparent) inhibiting HSV-2 glycoprotein B. The different domains of gB are color-coded. Three domains are held together by the footprint of the nanobody. IMAGE: Benjamin Vollmer / Centre for Structural Systems Biology
Researchers from CSSB & @mpi-nat.bsky.social have generated a highly potent nanobody that neutralizes a protein essential for the herpes virus infection. Published in @nature.com, the findings promise new therapies to treat & prevent infections @leibnizliv.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
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Join us for the first Career Talk of the 2025–2026 Tryps Club season!
Prof. Paul M. Selzer will give us an insight into anti-parasitic drug development in industry.
📅 Date: 24.09.2025
🕒 Time: 12:00 pm BST
📍 Location: Zoom
Register following link or the QR code on the poster
lnkd.in/eA7b9QRx
28 May 2026 – Book Session with Dr. Lina Pinto-García - Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia.
A discussion about the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and cutaneous leishmaniasis
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(5/5)
26 March 2026 – Journal Club (Community to pick)
30 April 2026 – Career Talk with Dr. María-Jesús Pinazo Delgado - Head of Chagas disease DNDi
(4/5)
27 November 2025 – Career Talk with Dr. Dan Masiga - Head of Global Health Thematic Research Programme at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya
29 January 2026 – Journal Club (Community to pick)
26 February 2026 – Career Talk (Community to pick)
(3/5)
24 September 2025 – Career Talk with Prof. Paul M. Selzer - Principal Fellow Research Parasitology at Böhringer Ingelheim Animal Health
30 October 2025 – Journal Club with Dr. Kirsty McWilliam - Genomic determinants of antigen expression hierarchy in African trypanosomes
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The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Tryps Club is pleased to share our upcoming series of events. These sessions will bring together leading experts and the wider community to exchange knowledge, highlight research, and foster collaboration in parasitology. (1/5)
We’re pleased to share our new study, led by @jezieldamasceno.bsky.social, that used long-read, single molecule sequencing to reveal the full (?) picture of Leishmania DNA replication. Thanks, Mike Boemo and helpful reviewers @uofgsii.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Drs @singh-parul.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social Maureen Cabahug @fariatrypslab.bsky.social & @jessmbryant.bsky.social review #Plasmodium & #Trypanosoma #genome organization.
#Trypanosome #Transcription #Chromatin #Epigenetics #Nuclear #Compartment
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social !
@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What a great first experience to take part in a review with such awesome fellow scientists!
New preprint alert! 🚨👇 I'm delighted to share the latest research from @jemmabetts.bsky.social
in our group: ‘A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting’. Huge congratulations to Jemma for the first manuscript of her PhD! ✨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes.
An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification.
Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...
🧬 Join us for the 3rd Journal Club hosted by the BSP TrypsClub! 🧬
Everyone is welcome — whether you're deep into Trypanosomatid research or just curious to explore fascinating biology, this is a great space to connect, learn, and discuss exciting new science!
So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk
Join us in our first TrypsClub Career Talk featuring Julius Lukeš! Everyone interested in Trypanosomes is welcome (except PI's - sorry)!
🎬 This #WorldChagasDay, we're excited to announce our next short film, 'The Children of the Sierra,' about working with Indigenous Wiwa communities in #Colombia to test and treat people affected by #ChagasDisease. 📽️ Moronga Films
WHAT IS CHAGAS DISEASE? A potentially life-threatening illness, transmitted through contact with the faeces or urine of a triatomine bug (kissing bug) found mainly in Latin America.
#ChagasDisease has the most severe impact among Latin America's impoverished communities but it is increasingly detected in other parts of the world. 100M people are at risk of infection.
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A GRIP-ing and Tryp-ing seminar tomorrow - Joana Faria from the University of York!
2 pm (GMT) | 3 pm (CET) | 9 am (EDT)
Link - uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8897218018...
Passcode: 987702
