A new World Health Organization's study has identified 17 pathogens as top priorities for new vaccine development ~ Identifying WHO global priority endemic pathogens for vaccine research and development (R&D) using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA): an objective of the

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York! University of York York Biomedical Research Institute Biology at York Please RT! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

Can't speak highly enough about this lab and PI Joana Faria Get your applications in ASAP!!

Wild is hiring! If you’re passionate about making an impact in crop improvement using genomics and comp bio come join the team! jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscience…

🧵 Have you heard of leishmaniasis? This neglected tropical disease affects 700,000 to 1 million people each year, mostly in low-income communities. It’s caused by Leishmania parasites, spread by sandflies. It has three main forms ⤵️ [1/6]

Just reviewed a paper and one of the other reviewer's comments were clearly AI generated... Anyone seen that before?

“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ Columbia Journalism Review 🔗 cjr.org/tow_center/we-…

Exciting day for parasite flagellar biology! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thrilled to be part of this exciting project on Leishmania and Crithidia doublet microtubule structures. Thanks to my two amazing PIs Rui Zhang Polina Lishko and our fabulous collaborators Alan Brown lab, Eva Gluenz lab, and Richard Wheeler lab🎉🎉🎉

Sorry tryptag.org tiff downloads aren't working - the server had a hard drive failure. We're looking into it. In the meantime all raw tiff images are available via here zenodo.org/records/7719295 or using github.com/zephyris/trypt….

Chipping away at mysteries of parasite swimming. How do proteins at the base of the flagellum control beat waveform which start at the tip? nature.com/articles/s4146…

“It’s sad if someone spends four years researching and publishes a paper and then has a figure that is not fully understandable. It will reduce the readership.” Sara Reardon talks with Elisabeth Bik @HelenaKJambor Jana Christopher. go.nature.com/4m9J20x

Small molecule targeting intrinsically disordered protein domains to help neurodegeneration, really great to finally have this collab with Hyman Lab out! nature.com/articles/s4158…

This project wouldn't have been possible without the inputs from the expertise at Dewpoint Therapeutics, and proves intrinsically disordered domains as a small molecule target nature.com/articles/s4158…

Having spent an afternoon developing some models with Google AI Studio, Ted Chiang seems more prescient than ever. It's only about a page, worth reading right now! nature.com/articles/35014…

Please consider applying for this post doc position in our lab if you have excellent bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

A new paper from Hyman Lab Richard Wheeler reports that a small molecule lipoamide dissolves stress granules by targeting SFPQ, a redox-sensitive disordered protein, benefiting ALS models nature.com/articles/s4158…

The One Health Research workshop ends with a closing ceremony and certificate presentation for the first-year MPhil and PhD students. Congratulations to all participants for their active engagement and dedication throughout the workshop! And a big thank you to all the

After a hiatus, the discoba lineage-optimised Alphafold2 structure predictions are back up! Get your improved Trypanosoma and Leishmania structure predictions here. Try out the Google Colab iPython notebook (and let me know if you have any problems) colab.research.google.com/github/zephyri…