50 years after the discovery of the #Toxoplasma life cycle by Frenkel et al. we have reached a milestone by producing pre-gametes in vitro - a feat previously only possible by infecting cats. Exciting details in our latest nature study. Thread below🧵1/8 nature.com/articles/s4158…

📣📣📣 Biomedical Vacation Scholarship now open 📣📣📣 Applications from undergraduate students enrolled in a degree in science, maths, engineering or medicine in their mid years of study welcome. More info found here gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/…

I'll be participating with my family in the #gaza5k to raise money for UNRWA an organization that provides much needed humanitarian help to Palestinian refugees. Sadly today UNRWA's work is needed more than ever. Join us in NY or support us. please RT getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/525…

Our first stab at finding routes of communication between the #nucleus and the #mitochondrion in #Toxoplasma discovered #contacts between the mitochondrion and the nuclear pore. doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20…

Excited to share a new preprint investigating the importance of the mitochondrial transporter ABCB7 for iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in Toxoplasma. Great collaboration with Sébastien Besteiro biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks to Wellcome for more than 35 years of funding. After today we are no longer a Wellcome Centre but the UofG Centre for Parasitology who will continue to produce world class research & train the science stars of the future.

I’m looking for a Research Technician! Come explore mRNA-binders in Toxoplasma with me at the University of Glasgow. Job ID: 143931. Closing date 06/05/24. Feel free to get in touch if interested or pass on to any suitable folks :) gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

Would you like to come and join us at Centre For Parasitology? Working with the excellent Megan Sloan on mRNA binding proteins in Toxoplasma, still a couple of weeks to apply!

Congratulations to Andy Waters who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at #BioMalPar #EMBLMalaria recently. Tnx for your enormous contribution to Malaria research on the global stage 🥇 🌍 UofG Sii Anton Muscatelli

Thank you to all the organizers of #toxo2024 and excellent work Lucpag Dana Aghabi and Jack Hanna who won a poster prize! We had a great time, as you can clearly tell from this picture, cant wait for Brazil 2026!

More stunning photos from today's field trip to Chapoquoit Beach. Kudos to the BoP2024 "official" photographer Gonzalo Seminario Mondejar for capturing these. Courtesy, the RealJimCollins cell biology module. Also, present were PoveLab, Dr. Megan Povelones, Freddy Frischknecht and Silvia Vilar Portugal

Who loves parasites? Epic 4th of July parade in Woods Hole featuring among many others Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Cleopatra with her holy schistosomes. Most importantly ⁦BiologyofParasitism⁩ won the water battle AGAIN. Parasites forever…

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Today in BiologyofParasitism , we had the pleasure of listening to Jude, whose inspiring career and significant contributions to Immunoparasitology are remarkable! #TeamAscaris kicked off in the lab at full speed. Great job, everyone!

Seven amazing weeks at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) BiologyofParasitism with these amazing people. Cohort 2024 here. Old BoPers. Identify yourself on the photos below in the thread and get in touch with us.

#TeamAscaris and #TeamLeish did a fantastic job presenting their research projects from the Immunology Module at BiologyofParasitism. So proud of you guys! beautiful and promising data! What a journey! Thanks for your dedication to the course.

paraCell: A novel software tool for the interactive analysis and visualization of standard and dual host-parasite single cell RNA-Seq data biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Interested in the datasets? Here: cellatlas.mvls.gla.ac.uk

Delighted to share the final version of our paper! Huge thanks to Sheiner lab, our great collaborators Sébastien Besteiro and WallerLab, and all the authors for their hard work. Thanks also to the reviewers for their suggestions and the team at mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…