You can still submit your abstract for #EMBLMalaria!

The new deadline is 25 Feb: https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl

Curious about the experience? Read the highlights from our 2025 event reporter, Alessia Hysa: https://s.embl.org/bmp25-01-event-reporter

🗓️ 27 – 29 May 2026

#BioMalPar

🔬 Planning to submit your abstract for #EMBLMalaria? There's still time!
The deadline is 18 Feb: https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl

﹒Share your latest research
﹒Connect with a global malaria community
﹒Contribute to progress in global health

27 – 29 May
EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

#BioMalPar

You have until 18 February to submit your abstract and join #EMBLMalaria 👉 https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl

Join us as we explore the biology of the malaria parasite and help advance global health. #BioMalPar

🗓️ 27 – 29 May 2026
📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Do you want to join a community working to reduce the devastating toll of #malaria by pushing forward new ideas, innovations, and strategies? 🦟 🧬

Registration is now open for #EMBLMalaria: https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl

✍️ Submit your abstract by 18 Feb
🗓️ 27 – 29 May 2026

#BioMalPar

Articles from #EMBLmalaria #BioMalPar @embl.org‬ @events.embl.org‬ @wehi-research.bsky.social‬ @radboudumc.bsky.social‬ @menziesresearch.bsky.social‬ @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social‬ @pasteur.fr‬ @upcite.bsky.social‬ @campathology.bsky.social‬ @thecimr.bsky.social‬ @cam.ac.uk‬

In this TrendsTalk, session chairs of @embl.org #BioMalPar XXI highlight the major themes discussed at the conference. #Malaria #Epidemiology #Pathogenesis #Immunity #Vaccine #Mosquito #Vector #Transmission #Antimalarial #Drug #Resistance #EMBLmalaria @events.embl.org

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

'🦟🌍 Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of hosting the XXI edition of the EMBL Conference 'BioMalPar', and now it's time to introduce the #EMBLMalaria poster prize winners! 📜👏🏼

Check out their posters and find out more about the conference
➡️ https://s.embl.org/bmp25-01-posters

📸✍🏼 From 20–22 May, Plasmodium and Toxoplasma experts met in Heidelberg for #EMBLMalaria to share the latest on #malaria biology and pathology. Alessia Hysa reports on the key takeaways 🦟🔬

Read more 👉🏼 www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-co...

A view of the town/city of Heidelberg from Heidelberg Castle in May 2025. The sun is shining through clouds in the top right hand corner of the photo because it is sunset on a beautiful, summery day. The river Neckar and three bridges traversing it can be seen. There are forests on both sides of the river and the red rooves of the city buildings are visible.

Ten young scientists holding poster award certificates pose for a photo in from of a screen that says "BioMalPar XXI: biology and pathology of the malaria parasite. 20-22 May 2025

A woman with black hair, blue eyes, and black-rimmed glasses stands next to a scientific poster on a poster board. She is smiling and wearing a lanyard with the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) logo on it.

There are overlapping walkways with glass sides circling upward in a round building. It is a bright building and people can be seen at intervals/different floors pinning scientific posters to poster boards on the first day of a conference. This is the EMBL conference building in Heidelberg, Germany, in which the walkways to different floors are arranged in two overlapping helices, alluding to the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.

Thank you so much to @embl.org/ @events.embl.org & the #EMBLmalaria 2025 organisers, Wiebke Nahrendorf, @lilianamancio.bsky.social, @sturalph.bsky.social, & Yaw Aniweh for an amazing conference. Incredible #Plasmodium/#malaria research! I'll be sending emails full of tips/notes to people all week!

So grateful to get to attend another fantastic BioMalPar #EMBLMalaria. Thank you to the organizers for the diverse and enriching program! @lilianamancio.bsky.social @sturalph.bsky.social @events.embl.org

As usual, fantastic science at #EMBLMalaria. Special thanks for the travel support from @pasteur.fr in the new EMBL-Pasteur initiative and the organization @lilianamancio.bsky.social @sturalph.bsky.social @events.embl.org

Malaria colleagues, please do join in this online game of “Where’s Wally?” at BioMalPar, as well as the advanced version for we ageing members: “Where’s Wally’s growing bald patch?” #EMBLMalaria

📸 Don't forget that the photo gallery from #EMBLMalaria is available on the online event platform! Head over to check out the highlights, relive the best moments, and see if you can spot yourself in the crowd 👀✨

That’s a wrap on #EMBLMalaria ! 🦟🎉

From game-changing ideas to brilliant conversations, we’re heading home inspired and energised.

Huge shoutout to everyone who joined us, and big congrats to the 10 amazing poster prize winners 🏆👏

Stay tuned for 2026 dates and more info on the awarded posters!

Kicking off #EMBLMalaria Session 5: Drug targets and resistance 🦟💊
Chaired by: Stuart Ralph & Jerzy Dziekan 🙏🏼

🎙️ Saman Habib – CSIR – Central Drug Research Institute , India
➡️ 'Nucleases for Plasmodium falciparum organelle genome maintenance and role of an LCR in DNA substrate repertoire expansion'

Congratulations Sophie Collier on a fantastic presentation on organelle inheritance in malaria parasites at BioMalPar. Lovely lattice light sheet imaging with @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social #EMBLMalaria @events.embl.org @fad1.bsky.social

Go Long Huynh! Fancy cell biology and fancy microscopy on artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium parasites at the BioMalPar conference #EMBLMalaria @benliffner.bsky.social @sabsalon.bsky.social @events.embl.org

Bárbara Díaz Terenti PhD student at the Gómez-Díaz Lab presenting at @events.embl.org #EMBLMalaria #BIOMALPAR our latest work on Plasmodium malariae transcriptome in the mosquito

Team Pasteur at the BioMalPar XXI meeting #EMBLMalaria @events.embl.org @pasteur.fr @piv-ip.bsky.social

Session 3 at #EMBLMalaria – 'Vectors and transmission' – is underway 🦟🔍

Time for another keynote lecture!

⭐🎙️ Sarah Reece – University of Edinburgh, UK
➡️ 'It’s about time! Daily rhythms in malaria infections matter for parasite survival and transmission'

@reecelab.bsky.social @embl.org

🔬✨'Women in Malaria' peer-to-peer workshop at #EMBLMalaria

♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.

Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼

#EMBLMalaria Session 2: Vaccines and immunity 💉🩸
🎙️ Pierre Buffet – Institut Pasteur, France
➡️ 'How the spleen senses, retains and processes erythrocytes: insights into the pathogenesis and control of malaria.'

Welcome to Day 2️⃣ of 'BioMalPar XXI: biology and pathology of the malaria parasite' 🦟 Time for a coffee break! ☕️
A quick pause, a strong brew, and even stronger conversations. From vector control to vaccine breakthroughs, the best ideas often spark over coffee. #EMBLMalaria

@sturalph.bsky.social giving the laudatio for Dominique who receives the Lifetime Achievement Award for malariology at BioMalPar. #EMBLMalaria

📜🔬 Poster session 1 in full swing at BioMalPar XXI!

🦟 A vibrant exchange of ideas as early-career researchers and seasoned scientists share cutting-edge work on malaria biology and pathology.

💡 Inspiring science, great discussions, and new connections!

#EMBLMalaria

☕️ Coffee break at #EMBLMalaria 🍎🍪

A moment to recharge, connect, and reflect on the incredible malaria science shared so far.
Great conversations brewing – both in cups and in ideas!

+ 'Meet the speaker' with our Keynote, Abdoulaye Djimde 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻💬

We got treated to the first keynote speech of #EMBLMalaria right at the beginning of today's programme 🤩
⭐🎙️ Abdoulaye Djimde – Bamako University, Mali
➡️ 'Plasmodium genomics for malaria elimination in sub-saharan Africa'

Very fortunate to have Abdoulaye Djimdé kicking off the BioMalPar XXI meeting @events.embl.org #EMBLMalaria

🦠 Opening remarks at BioMalPar XXI 🦟
Welcoming everyone on site are our #EMBLMalaria scientific organisers:
🔸Liliana Mancio-Silva, Institut Pasteur
🔸Wiebke Nahrendorf, The University of Edinburgh
🔸Stuart Ralph, University of Melbourne
🔸Yaw Aniweh, University of Ghana (remotely)

🦟🦠 BioMalPar XXI kicks off today at EMBL Heidelberg!
Welcoming researchers from around the world to explore the biology and pathology of the malaria parasite.
Excited for a week of science, collaboration, and discovery! #EMBLMalaria #BioMalParXXI #MalariaResearch #GlobalHealth