Next speaker at the #ParasitePhysics session at DGParasitologie #DGP2023 is Young Scientist, discussing attachment of #Giardia to solid substrates, & his use of #AFM to analyse it.

The 3rd #ParasitePhysics speaker is Stepanka Nedvedova, describing #biophysics studies of #schistosome MEG family proteins cc aemiele

And that’s a wrap! The DGParasitologie #DGP2023 #ParasitePhysics session is over. Big thanks again to all the speakers. Time for lunch! 😋

#ParasitePhysics member Rashmi nakate scoops one of the poster prizes at DGParasitologie #DGP2023 - congratulations Rashmi! 🥳👏

Brooke Morriswood has resigned and will be stepping down as Physics of Parasitism manager at the end of April. #LeavingAcademia.

🚨🚨🚨 #postdoc position available in #ParasitePhysics Freddy Frischknecht, working on #Plasmodium invasion. Apply now! 👇

🚨🚨🚨See 👇 for the upcoming DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social & SFB 1027 meeting on #CellPhysics, taking place this October in Saarbrücken 🇩🇪!🤗 Let’s see how much #ParasitePhysics we can get into the programme - register now! 😃

... here the link to the #CellPhysics2023 meeting webpage: t.ly/RItP We will also have a joint DGZ-SBCF session to further promote synergies between cell biologists working in Germany and France DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social SBCF

I really enjoyed working on our Marsilius Kolleg project on fever with Modern History Heidelberg and Freddy Frischknecht. In this interview conducted by Michael Boutros, we look back to what we have learned (in German) marsilius-kolleg.uni-heidelberg.de/podcast.html

Out today in Cell Host & Microbe: our immune system fights infections by luring the virus into a lipid trap. Another very fruitful and interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of #SFB1129. This Share Link will work until May 20: authors.elsevier.com/c/1gr356t8JEm~…

Intriguing interview retrieved from the deep archives J Cell Science on the occasion of @DrMichaelWay coming of age. Curious 'revelations' indeed and happy 50+: klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/zentrum-fuer-i…

This #Wednesdaywonder & #wormwednesday has a great head of hair. Tubeworms have a collar of hairs around their head allow them to pluck food out of surrounding water and sense their environment. Find the worms on rocky shores in shady spots if they poke out of their tubes.

New posting! Another more personal one, about why I've no regrets about staying in #academia as long as I did (& how we should all perhaps be regularly asking ourselves why we're staying). totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/04/16/no-…

Check out Brooke Morriswood's #blog on what academia should be all about, training the next generation with a keen eye not only on their papers, but personalities. #research #academia #shouldIstayorshouldIgo

Brooke has been a wonderful mentor to over 40 undergrads in the last 7 years. What a great legacy! We need more people like him to train the next generation of scientists!

Coughs and sneezes: Markus Engstler and Brooke Morriswood @ZEB_UniWue recommend this commentary by Gabriele Neumann & Yoshihiro Kawaoka UW–Madison in EMBO Mol. Medicine on what causes the seasonality of respiratory #viruses, e.g., #influenza and #SARSCoV2 facultyopinions.com/article/742014…

We thank Physics of Parasitism and #SFB1129 for support, and Freddy and Mirko from Freddy Frischknecht for the experimental images. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…