Register to come and hear us talk about microscopy with a pint of Guinness! eventbrite.com.au/e/the-science-…

How do karyotypes evolve? Turns out an intracellular tug of war within the metaphase spindle sets the limits for chromosome number evolution. Excited to see our study out today in Nature Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4155…  1/9

The organisms whose data are curated by VEuPathDB are responsible for >4.5 million deaths per year. The loss of this resource would be an immeasurable step backwards for pathogen genomics and big data. Not to mention OrthoMCL, that many of us rely on without even knowing...

Can free-living eukaryotes exist without mitochondria? In a new paper from my group led by Shelby, we show that the answer is probably yes! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our (w/Andrew Swafford, Ethan Garner, and Lillian Fritz-Laylin) review "Actin network evolution as a key driver of eukaryotic divesification" is out now in J Cell Science! doi.org/10.1242/jcs.26…

Pleased that research led by Sleebs Lab WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) on optimization of a PfATP4 targeted antimalarial with curative and transmission blocking potential has been published. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Ctenophores with yet another competitive entry into the "Which animal is coolest?" competition

Congrats Rouaa BC Matthew Martinez Lentini Lab Soldati Lab 🤩🥳 #PLOSBiology: Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry discharge factor 3 is essential for invasion and microtubule-associated vesicle biogenesis dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Congratulations 🎉 James Blauwkamp on your fabulous talk at MNID making me and our lab very proud. Folks attending in person or virtually #MPM2024 you will have a chance to hear his fabulous story about Apicoplast inheritance parasitesrule

Chromatin scientists, want to reorganize genomic loci as you wish? Out today in Cell--We made a tool that uses surface tension of engineered condensates to reposition DNA loci across microns of space in living cells in just a few minutes: VECTOR cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Check out our collaborative work with Franziska Hildebrandt, Johan Ankarklev, Tales Pascini and great team. We performed the Spatial Transcriptome of P. berghei infected livers identifying spatial tissue responses to the infection. 👨🏽‍🔬 🦠 🦟 🐭 🔬 🧬 NIH Intramural NIAID News NIAID Training

I recall a while ago seeing a table that contained Plasmodium species from a bunch of different animals, and the number of merozoites produced per blood-stage schizont. I can't seem to find this online anywhere, can the Plasmodium social media hivemind help me out here?

Apicomplexan #parasites cause #Malaria #Toxoplasmosis & #Cryptosporidiosis A new study by Soldati Lab highlights the key role of γ-tubulin in their life cycle. Read more! 🔗Full bit.ly/3YSqOY7 🔗Summary bit.ly/3SYwcFw #Tubulin #UExM #ExpansionMicroscopy

Giving yesterday's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) seminar felt like a significant accomplishment for the kid that failed maths, and so didn't get to do physics at high school There was even a graph that had 3 (!!) variables

Congratulations to Professor Jake Baum who was awarded the 2024 Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence from the Australian Society for Parasitology. #BMM parasite.org.au/blog/congratul…

Congratulations to Alex Maier for winning the Bridget Ogilvie medal Aust Soc for Para We, the Aussie parasitology community, and me personally, have been tremendously influenced by your contributions and dedication to parasitology education

📢We are hiring a microscope specialist! Please apply and/or spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Thanks very much to Science in the Pub Adelaide for the opportunity to speak tonight! Cheers to the Whyalla contingent for coming out to support too!

Are you a gun at microscopy? Like research but not sure you want to be a lab head? We might have the job for you. Come and work with us and assist researchers to maximise their microscopy projects. Closing date 29th September, more info and apply here go.unimelb.edu.au/4zw8

CONGRATS to Franziska Hentzschel for obtaining an European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to work on the 'weird' but wonderful biology of the Arp2/3 complex in #malaria #parasites: klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/newsroom/en/er…