Franzi has nailed her thesis, and she did it in true Bavarian style!!! Franzi will be defending her PhD thesis on September 15th – join us to hear more about her work on host-pathogen interactions!

Kicking off the semester with a new paper out! Follow the link to read about our work on tumor-associated macrophages and their role in tumor growth. Fantastic work by Mubasher, Dilan Khalili and Uli Theopold 👏Stockholm University frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Great to have a plenary talk by Professor Francine Ntoumi Ntoumi Francine “From Mink to Parasites and Gender in science: An exciting journey” #MPM2023

🦟Exciting news from the Ankarklev Lab! On Sep 15th, Franziska Hildebrandt defended her thesis: "Host-Pathogen Interactions Across Space & Time." 🚀 Thanks, Prof. Heussler (HeusslerLab), Prof. Jiang (USF Public Health), & the committee for a great discussion! 🙌 Congrats, Dr. Hildebrandt! 🎉

The Molecular Parasitology Meeting was a blast! 🥳Fredrik, Miren, and Diego Macedo were there to represent the AnkarklevLab and showcase our research on malaria transmission. Hats off to parasitesrule for orchestrating this event! 🧬🦟 #MPM2023

Join the gene-commenting adventure with the AnkarklevLab! Our "got parasites?" mugs from VEuPathDb are the perfect companions. Comment on your favorite parasite genes and you might win one for yourself! 💬🔍 #VEuPathDb

A round of applause for Franziska Hildebrandt, who's done a fantastic job finishing her PhD journey! 🎓 We wish her the best of luck in her next career experience at the Treeck Lab (Moritz Treeck) where new adventures in Toxoplasma research await Thank you for everything, Franzi! 🌟

My early Christmas present: happy to share our preprint of my PhD work in the AnkarklevLab. We decipher host-pathogen interactions in #Plasmodium infected #liver in the true tissue context and with single cell resolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Apply to work with Stephanie Nofal on her exciting project on Plasmodium transmission stages funded by Wellcome. Great chance to start or progress your career under close supervision from an outstanding young scientist in a multidisciplinary team (treecklab.org)

It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. British Society for Parasitology Aust Soc for Para ASTMH Trends in Parasitology ASP-Parasitologists parasitesrule PEERs in Parasitology (PiP)

I am over the moon excited that the last first author paper from my PhD in the AnkarklevLab is out in Nature Communications today! It was a wonderful team effort with Joel Vega Rodriguez, Emma Andersson, Noémi Van Hul, Charlotte Scott and Joakim Lundeberg! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Exciting new research from David Serre at University of Maryland School of Medicine ! 🦟 Single-cell RNA-seq uncovers how polyclonal Plasmodium vivax infections impact parasite development and transmission. Must-read for #Malaria researchers! #Pvivax pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39223117/

Funders (European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome, UK Research and Innovation , BMBF ....) unite! We are losing the most important bioinformatic ressource (@EUpathdb) that underpins parasitology research across the most important pathogens. science.org/content/articl…

Interesting new study from Swiss TPH by Prof. Till S. Voss and colleagues uncovers distinct roles of PfARK1-3 kinases in Plasmodium falciparum mitosis, with PfARK1/2 showing male-specific expression in late-stage gametocytes. Great read! 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39235260/

Big thanks to Dr. Richard Green from University of Washington and Natera for visiting us and sharing his insights on personalized medicine. We’re excited to follow his work and keep the conversation going!