Very happy to see this out! Great work by David Arranz Solís 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 SALUVET group with participation of Leandro Tana from our team. A combination of GRA3, GRA6 and GRA7 peptides offer a useful tool for serotyping type II and III Toxoplasma gondii infections in 🐑 and 🐷 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Ksena Bondarenko joined my lab determined to expand the #toxoplasma cyst - after a couple of years of hard work she cracked it! Hope this preprint is useful…. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Yay! Our preprint on affordable super-resolution tool for #Toxoplasma chronic stage is out! Leveraging #ExM to explore cysts wasn't easy, and I'm excited about the possibilities this opens up for Toxo parasitologists. Joanna Young lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Microscopy #Science

I've been working with colleagues at The Moredun Foundation to put together a protocol video on making #organoids from primary tissue: youtube.com/watch?v=wBVID-… Multiple language subtitle versions coming soon including: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Chinese

#Lifescience #ECR - come work at UofG MVLS ! Meanwhile enjoy the video with cameo appearance of Shikha Andrew Maclean Jana mariana ferreira 🌟

Happy graduation Dr Hamza! HAMZA Elati, 🇱🇾 Harry De Koning

Massive congratulations to Andrew Maclean and mariana ferreira for their promotions! Such a well deserved recognition of their achievements and contributions to the #parasitology & #mitochondria fields, to UofG Sii , and to our team!

Hello, fellow researchers, May I ask you to spread the word? The Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin is awarding a short-term fellowship for scholars at risk from Ukraine: oei.fu-berlin.de/en/institut/an…

Was an amazing day yesterday celebrating graduation day Aberystwyth University DLS/AGB Well done Pom Wititkornkul and Sam Grinsell on your successes...Holly Marie Northcote your next! Couldn't resist a selfie with Iain Barber on the steps!

Really happy to share that our preprint on characterising the Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins (COWPs) is out! Confirming COWP localisation to the oocyst wall (including the suture!), and the first ever oocyst wall protein CRISPR KO included! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

With Oded Rechavi Shahar Bracha and colleagues we present the revolutionary idea of using brain parasites as brain therapy delivery vehicles and demonstrate the feasibility of the first few steps. Watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9VoVh… Read: nature.com/articles/s4156…

It took more than a DECADE... but finally it’s published!!! It started as a CRAZY idea but after tons of hard work we built it: We hijacked the endogenous secretion systems of Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite, to deliver active proteins to neurons 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

You may have heard of viral vectors for medicinal delivery, but how about 🧠 parasite vectors? I'm delighted and grateful to have played a part in such an exciting story pioneered by Dr Shahar Bracha and colleagues.

Congratulations to Dr. Laidlaw (Ross Laidlaw) who passed his PhD defence! I’m losing my partner in crime to his post-doc at LUMC Leiden so please join me in wishing him the best of luck. Thank you Ross for everything! 🥳 N.B Thanks plantblonde on Insta for the amazing vegan cake!

Glad to share our latest study on #Toxoplasma #lipid synthesis and trafficking in Journal of Lipid Research We reveal the role of a novel #AcylCoAsynthetase aka Fatty acid metabolic activator. Great work by the team, especially  Sheena Dass, Serena Shunmugam Charital Sarah shorturl.at/GBFgb

Great news ... but a stable model has to be found ... and I don't feel that we should give @NIAIDFunding a free pass on this. I am still puzzled that one would cut funding to something we urgently need and replace it with something few of us have asked for or need for.

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…