Only one week left to submit your abstract for MPM XXXVI #mpm2025 Richard McCulloch Omar Harb 🍉 Deepali Ravel Marc-Jan Gubbels ⏰deadline is July 14, 2025 🔗parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi

This week, Jane Carlton and others from Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute spent time with research scientists in Ethiopia, planning expanded field research aimed at eradicating #malaria, which is responsible for more than 600K deaths each year, mostly children under 5.

check out our new eLife - the journal paper, led by Kuan-Hao Chao along with Alan Mao, Anqi (Angie) Liu, Mihaela Pertea: OpenSpliceAI: An efficient, modular implementation of SpliceAI doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Ignore the pseudoscience from US Dept HHS: get your annual flu vaccine, it’s also one of the best ways to protect your heart health. Summary study from CIDRAP here and linked to this post cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gene….

New #research in Nature Communications from Carlton Lab reveals how a parasite behind one of the world’s most common STIs may have evolved from bird-infecting ancestors to infecting humans. Using genomic comparisons, scientists identified genes likely involved: bit.ly/3H3ImKf

News podcast: Jane Carlton Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on malaria; Jorge Chavarro Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a baby's sex at birth; Richard Hollingham Space Boffins on lunar bases; Alan Winfield 💙 on accountable AI; and Ronita Bardhan and Bill Sutherland on climate and AI. thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

#Malaria Surge in Southern Africa AfricaCDC - Several countries – including Botswana, eSwatini, Namibia and Zimbabwe – reporting new outbreaks, underscoring the ongoing challenges in eradicating the disease in Africa. malariaworld.org/news/malaria-s…

.Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH Professor and #tickborne diseases expert Doug Norris, PhD, talks to WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore Breana Ross about his research to collect ticks and learn about tickborne diseases #Lyme #AlphaGal #BlackLeggedTicks wbaltv.com/article/doctor…

Long-awaited, awesome paper from Jane Carlton and team. I strongly resisted making imagery around "bird-to-human STI spillover"! #genomics #HiC

Drs Parul Singh Leon Walther, Maureen Cabahug Joana Faria & Jessica Bryant review #Plasmodium & #Trypanosoma #genome organization #Trypanosome #Transcription #Chromatin #Epigenetics #Nuclear Institut Pasteur, since 1887 Université Paris Cité York Biomedical Research Institute YSBL University of York cell.com/trends/parasit…

Dr Nathalie Boulanger reviews #tick & host #microbiotas: #immunomodulators in #tickborne diseases. #Microbiota #Metagenomics #Skin #Immunity #Immunomodulation authors.elsevier.com/a/1lZFX5Eb1xN6…

🧪 GSK Africa Open Lab: Call for proposals from early-career African scientists tackling infectious diseases (e.g. malaria, TB, AMR) 🦠 💡 Funding + mentoring for innovative, impact-driven research 🗓️ Concept deadline: 3 Sep 2025, 17:00 GMT 🔗 Apply: ow.ly/kKWI50WBRQb

In Kwale, in Kenya, where bed nets alone can’t stop #malaria, researchers are testing #ivermectin, a ‘wonder drug’ commonly used to treat parasitic infections that can also kill mosquitoes 🦟🎙️ publichealth.jhu.edu/malaria-resear…

Our Oct issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews malaria transmission rhythms, anti-CSP ab-mediated sporozoite neutralization, Toxoplasma endodyogeny, bacterial RNAi for mosquito control, onchocerciasis diagnostic challenges, Mansonella perstans, ectoparasites as bioindicators &more

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Exploring erythropoiesis: aging through the lens of malaria and microgravity dlvr.it/TNhMgt

According to local media, the Pakistani province of #Sindh has reported 200,000+ cases of #malaria in 2025. Health workers are going to door-to-door, urging residents to take precautions such as eliminating standing water where malaria-carrying mosquitoes breed.

Greetings from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute’s 2025 retreat! Lots of exciting science from our faculty, staff and learners. #malaria Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University