#Tgondii WIP gets DCs moving: Jeroen Saeij use #CRISPR libraries to identify #Toxoplasma genes affecting in vivo fitness. They find that TgWIP is secreted into host cells & regulates actin dynamics to enhance transmigration of parasitized dendritic cells cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Sustained Egr-1 Response via p38 MAP Kinase Signaling Modulates Early Immune Responses of Dendritic Cells Parasitized by Toxoplasma gondii frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Einars thesis is out! (almost) time for champagne

Congratulations to our newly graduated Dr. Einar B. Ólafsson! And a very big thank you to Dr Eva Frickel for being a wonderful opponent, as well as all of the committee members.

Excited to share our first preprint characterising how Toxoplasma manipulates host leukocyte cell migration. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A paper of Barragan Lab from Stockholm University in which I'm co-author is published in Journal of Cell Science. Congrats Einar Ólafsson!!!!!! ⁦@inv_uss⁩ ⁦Barragan Lab⁩ jcs.biologists.org/content/early/…

we are excited to share with you our latest paper. thank you to everyone involved! A motogenic GABAergic system of mononuclear phagocytes facilitates dissemination of coccidian parasites doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Happy to announce that our study GABAergic signaling in human and murine NK cells upon challenge with Toxoplasma gondii is now on biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to our collaboration with Barragan Lab

happy to share the latest work from Emily & Arne on integrin-dependent migratory switches in Toxoplasma infected DCs! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

we're very excited to share our latest work! Blood-brain barrier-restricted translocation of Toxoplasma gondii from cortical capillaries doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Drs @emily_c_ross Gabriela Olivera & Antonio Barragan review early passage of #Toxoplasma #gondii across the #blood–#brain #barrier #BBB. Stockholm University #Apicomplexa #Coccidia #CNS #Capillary #Permeability #Transendothelial #Migration #OpenAccess cell.com/trends/parasit…

Congratulations to the new Dr. Arne ten Hoeve on a successful PhD defense! 🥳 A special thank you to Nicolas Blanchard for a very interesting discussion, and to all of the committee members.

we would like to say a very big thank you to Ildiko Dunay for a great discussion last week, as the opponent of our newly graduated Dr. Emily C Ross 🥳. A special thanks to the committee members as well!

New Research: Toxoplasma effector-induced ICAM-1 expression by infected dendritic cells potentiates transmigration across polarised endothelium: The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes use of infected leukocytes for… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #immunology

We are very happy indeed that this work is out there now!

Happy to share our latest work together with HAKIMI Mohamed-Ali and @SaeijlabUCDavis labs on Toxoplasma dissemination Cell Host & Microbe cell.com/cell-host-micr…

In this week’s Editors’ Choice piece, we highlight a study by Ten Hoeve, HAKIMI Mohamed-Ali, Barragan Lab, and colleagues in Cell Host & Microbe that shows how the parasite #Tgondii makes macrophages migrate.  Read a summary in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/Tc

Check out this curated collection showcasing the most cited and influential articles published in the Cell Press journal #TrendsinParasitology in 2022. #Review #Opinion #Forum #Spotlight #TrendsTalk #ParasiteoftheMonth cell.com/trends/parasit…

Hypermigration of macrophages through the concerted action of GRA effectors on NF-κB/p38 signaling and host chromatin accessibility ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

"We have decoded how the parasite takes control of immune cells, converting them into moving "zombies" which spread the parasite in the body," says Professor Antonio Barragan. Find out how the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii exploits immune cells to reach the human brain