Full room at the BRC resources discussion #KMCB2024 by NIAID PO Brown & VEuPathDB PI Roos. Extreme dismay over global impact of NIAID decision, but sustained applause at news that VEuPathDB will return, through generosity of Fdn Adv Sci/Med, Open Philanthropy Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Penn & UGA

My “Coachella” is two days away! Super excited about meeting people in Woods Hole and talk about Science! Going to talk about my project on Tuesday morning. First time the whole fam will join for a conference! 😱 #MPMXXXV #parasitesrule

VEuPathDB data will remain available beyond the day NIAID meant it to go dark, but no new data will be brought in. Get involved with @VEuPathDB in the conversation about the future of shared data.

Our parasite genome databases are really gone! The lack of communication and scientific vision ⁦NIH⁩ is hard to follow. Colossal mistake! ⁦parasitesrule⁩ ⁦British Society for Parasitology⁩ ⁦National Academy of Sciences⁩ ⁦Science Magazine⁩ ⁦nature⁩ ⁦NIAID News⁩

You know your microscopy is good when the audience emits an audible "ooooh". Excellent work by Balestra Aurélia #MPM2024 #Cryptosporidium

Aurelia giving a great talk on the Cryptosporidium male gamete in the opening session of #mpm2024!

Brillant talk by Grace from the ⁦Vasant Muralidharan⁩ UGA CTEGD⁩ on Plasmodium invasion at #mpm2024!

Critical loss: the effects of VEuPathDB defunding on global health - The Lancet Microbe ⁦parasitesrule⁩ ⁦ASTMH⁩ @nih ⁦NIAID News⁩ ⁦British Society for Parasitology⁩ ⁦Women In Parasitology⁩ ⁦Parasite Slack⁩ #mpm2024 thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

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We are excited to share our new findings on the NEK1 kinase in male gamete formation and kinetochore attachment in Plasmodium. We dedicate this paper to Professor Andrew Fry (1966-2024). Great collaborations. With Mathieu Brochet, Eelco Tromer Zeeshan PLOS Biology

So proud of ⁦Shaw Sebastian⁩ Sebastian Shaw and his great work on Cryptosporidium crosses to understand parasite persistence.

The mpmxxxvi organizers have been crowned! #mpmxxxv

Yet another dull day in the boring life of some research scientists. Epic end of conference party at #mpm2024. If your parties are not like this you are in the wrong field and should study parasites!

Excited to present the latest preprint from the lab, showing that Toxoplasma gondii parasites use cap-independent translation to convert into its latent cyst form! Here’s why this is cool... (1/n)

#Plasmodium #parasites have a pair of organelles called rhoptries, made anew every replicative cycle. David Anaguano Vasant Muralidharan &co show that RON11 triggers biogenesis of the second #rhoptry and is important for #erythrocyte invasion #PLOSBiology plos.io/3XQeiqY

Michael Grigg will speak in Penn Micro seminar series next week. Note different lecture hall. ⁦Penn Vet⁩ ⁦Penn Microbiology⁩ ⁦Penn IGG⁩ ⁦Penn BGS⁩ ⁦Penn Biology⁩

Donald shows how to be a good sport and give a good talk even when you are the penultimate conference speaker #mpm2024

Imagine if you woke up this morning and found that the NIH-funded database that holds all of the data that you and thousands of other scientists around the world consult every day was turned off. Gone. Despite many efforts by a community of scientists to lobby NIH Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli

Next Monday 9/23 12 pm EST Global Parasitology Seminar: Monica Mugnier on antigenic variation. In person and upenn.zoom.us/i/91485597704 British Society for Parasitology parasitesrule Trends in Parasitology Women In Malaria BiologyofParasitism Penn Microbiology Penn IGG Aust Soc for Para LabEx ParaFrap PEERs in Parasitology (PiP) ASP-Parasitologists