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Congratulations Dr Watson! Lucy Watson Expertly examined by ellen bushell and Calvin Tiengwe. A lot of hidden gems in that hat! 😉🎉🥳

Been talking to many suppliers to purchase equip, reagents. Can say New England Biolabs is absolutely the best to help start a lab- very responsive, good discounts. And strongly recommend "shop local" to keep down capital spending. Thistle Scientific has good quality equip at great prices.

🎥 | WATCH | A recording of the Dr @R0bMoon (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) GRiP-ing seminar 'Reassessing and dissecting red blood cell invasions using Plasmodium knowlesi' can be viewed on our YouTube channel for a limited time. 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=dyGHi9…

Very happy to share new work UofG Sii Centre For Parasitology led by Jeziel D. Damasceno describing very abundant, previously undetected DNA replication activity in Leshmania using DNAscent, a technique developed by Conrad Nieduszynski 🇺🇦 Great work, Jeziel. shorturl.at/G7uRm

🚨🖨️👩‍🔬New Preprint alert! Please have a look to see how refolding and proteolysis are balanced in malaria parasites🩸🧪🦟So proud in our lab trainees, especially 1st author Amanda Tissawak, for this first major research article from our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Woohoo! A parasitaemia of 100 has been reached over at the other site. Join us!

In case you missed it, here is a recording of today's VEuPathDB Parasitology/protozoology community meeting. Thanks everyone for all the questions and comments. youtu.be/aSS6fiGVBG4

Immensely proud to tell you all my first paper of my PhD is out in Nature Medicine now! We wanted to know if the immune response to COVID-19 was distinct in an African cohort (spoiler alert: our data suggest it is!) Give it a read! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Fancy doing a PhD in York, and spending some time in warmer, sunnier Glasgow UofG Sii Centre For Parasitology ? Apply to Joana Faria by January 6th! tinyurl.com/4ad39amd

I'm looking for a research technician! If you're interested in studying how malaria gametocytes remodel their host cell come join us on a Wellcome funded project at GIMM Foundation by applying here: gimm.pt/jobs/laborator… Deadline 20th December. Please share!

The cover image for this issue is fantastic! It's great to see that two Trend Talk articles are featured—one from a conference organized by my former lab, led by my PhD mentor Krishanpal Karmodiya and the other from a symposium organized by SPPIRIT members, of which I'm proudly a part.

GRiP-ing seminars, 2025 edition starts next Friday, live from Glasgow! Come, join us! Our first speaker is Emma Wilson Dr. Emma Wilson from UC Riverside. Please RT. DM to get mail alerts about these excellent talks. Link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/88946734172?… Passcode: 410932

Our Martina Paoletta scalable CRISPR-Cas9 system (PbHiT) in Plasmodium berghei is now published in Nucleic Acids Research 🥂 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… (Detailed overview in my previous 🧵 below) ellen bushell Umeå University MIMS - Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden Women In Malaria

Unfortunately this seminar tomorrow is cancelled because of Storm Éowyn. But we will have have Emma's talk on a later date, stay tuned!

I am honored to have been awarded the Small Research Grant from the SRE, which will support our efforts to elucidate how Toxoplasma gondii metabolically adapts to copper fluctuations during infection and to investigate the role of different copper transporters in this process.