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Now that I am going through safety inductions, pretty safe to announce that I have moved to UofG Sii to start a lab funded by Medical Research Council Career Development Award!

Many congrats to Jessie Howell for a great PhD defence today! Great collaboration with Melanie Jimenez Many thanks to Mick Urbaniak & Massimo Vassalli for examining & Delphine Gourdon & Julien Reboud for convening/organising. UofG Sii UofG Engineering Biomed Engineering UofG MVLS

I am super happy about the opportunity to continue unraveling the mysteries of #malaria #parasite development in the mosquito, now funded by an #ERCStG! This is gonna be fun! klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/newsroom/en/er…

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Welcome back! VEuPathDB resources are back online today! We will continue to provide bioinformatics services under a new organizational structure. Read more here: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/…

And here is the second broad infection conference that we are organizing at EMBL Events. Our main goal is to bring together Infection scientists (that often not get together) to discuss common infection mechanisms across pathogens and technology developments.

Just out! doi.org/10.1371/journa… Read how we developed new staining & Imaging Flow Cytometry pipelines for live Leishmania mexicana to provide novel insights into its cell cycle. Melanie Jimenez Jessie Howell UofG Sii Centre For Parasitology UofG MVLS Biomed Engineering

It was such a pleasure to host in Granada IPBLN-CSIC the 2nd annual meeting of our project #ADAPTorDIE funded by CaixaResearch. On the back the astonishing Alhambra. Amazing team of collaborators Thomas D. Otto Lisa Ranford-Cartwright Ginny Howick from University of Glasgow and M. Diakite from USTTB

Excited to share my first ever first author paper published this week. Read our work on transmission blocking compounds here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thrilled to announce that our latest work is now on bioRxiv! Alina Batzilla and I explored the pathogenic mechanisms of Plasmodium falciparum egress from infected red blood cells using a novel 3D blood-brain barrier model. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm super excited that I could be part of this!! Huge thanks to Maria Bernabeu, Livia Piatti and to everyone who helped throughout this journey!!!

Passed my portfolio viva on Tuesday and can officially register as a Clinical Scientist 🩷😭 Happiest of fridays!!!

What amazing news to share - Egypt has been certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO)! In an article shared by the BBC, WHO chief Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus said, "Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilizations itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now

This is the kind of news we love to share! The World Health Organization (WHO) certifies that Brazil and Timor-Leste have eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, is a neglected tropical disease. WHO

🧵Check out our new paper showing that male gametocytes need an active mitochondrion for gametogenesis: nature.com/articles/s4200… Also, we have a big plug for our excellent new antibody marker specific for male gametocytes and gametes. LSHTM_malaria Medical Research Council

Find me at the other place if you're making the migration 🦋🙂

EMBL Barcelona scientists & collaborators have identified human antibodies that could prevent the malaria parasite from causing life-threatening infections. This could pave the way for future vaccines or treatments to protect people from severe malaria. embl.org/news/science-t…

Amazing team effort led by Evelien Bunnik, Thomas Lavstsen and Louise Turner combining immunology, structural biology and bioengineered vessels to identify broadly reactive inhibitory mAb recognizing PfEMP1 associated to severe malaria. Looking forward to continue working together!

If you have time, have a look at this little paper: rdcu.be/d0T5P #COVIDー19 #scRNA, IMC data from Malawi. Long project, great collaboration - and the data are here: cellatlas.mvls.gla.ac.uk Have a look at the data integration :-)