Cryptosporidium, sometimes called crypto, is an apicomplexan genus of alveolates which are parasites that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis).

It's official🪩🎉! We received an R35 to study inter-organellar communication in apicomplexan parasites. Thank you to everyone involved in this application. If you're interested in working on this topic, please reach out, we are recruiting postdocs! #NIGMS #NIH

'Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria' #apicomplexa #mitochondria Lamb et al. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-032421-120540

The Apicomplexan research community in Bern 😊

#uzh #universityzurich #universityofgeneva #universityofbern #universityofbasel #swisstph #universityoflausanne #apicomplexan

Swiss Apicomplexan Meeting in Bern, Switzerland

#uzh #universityofzurich #universityofbern #universityofgeneva #universityofbasel #swisstph #apicomplex

Excited to share our latest review on 3′-end mRNA processing in #apicomplexan parasites! Discovering the classic and unexpected players involved in this intricate process was a fascinating journey. Check it out and stay tuned for more! #mRNAprocessing

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I couldn’t call myself a microbiologist if I went to Amsterdam and DIDN’T stop at #Micropia . Although I couldn’t find 𝑇. 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑖, I did find another Apicomplexan parasite! Can you tell which one? 👩🏻‍🔬🧫🔬

Parallel functional reduction in the mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites
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Aaand my personal Weirdo of The Day prize goes to Nephromyces, a non-parasitic core Apicomplexan that lives in a renal sac of a tunicate. Presented by Chris Lane. #Roscoff #JMonod conference

Do you know about amazing apicomplexan gregarines? Discover one of the most stunning gregarine, awesome *Porospora gigantea*, in Trends in Parasitology Parasite of the Month with Isabelle FLORENT
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Out today. The micropore is an unusual, stable endocytic structure, found throughout apicomplexan parasites and their dinoflagellate relatives, where it is embedded in the complex cell pellicle that these organisms share.
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I had great time at the Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting 2023 and received good feedback on our research on apicomplexan parasites by our relatives, the ciliate community. Thanks for the invitation.

Crypto! Apicomplexan in UK drinking water.
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Great study, great tram! So many interesting stuff yet to be discovered and developed in the apicomplexan field!

Chinese researchers have gained ground in disclosing the impact of land use on soil parasitic diversity in subtropical & temperate zones across China, revealing that Apicomplexan and metazoan richness are largely decoupled in human-dominated land use. bit.ly/3Q5Bw8G

Post-doctoral positions available to study Calcium signaling in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. To apply send a cover letter and CV including the names of 3 references to: Silvia N J Moreno, [email protected] Web site: moreno-lab.franklinresearch.uga.edu

🆕 | We are delighted to announce that UofG Sii's Lilach Sheiner (@SheinerLab), an expert in eukaryotic parasite cell biology who has been researching apicomplexan parasites since 2005, has been promoted to Professor!

Congratulations, Professor Sheiner!

A nice review on the peculiar aspects of the apicomplexan microtubule cytoskeleton, such as the beautiful conoid but also the absence of the famous K40 on alpha-tubulin in some lineages! We like it a lot!😃

If you are interested in studying the cell biology of apicomplexan parasites as a PhD student in the burdalab.org and oliaslab.org at the IVP in Germany, get in touch.
Details: bit.ly/PhDmalaria and bit.ly/PhDcrypto

Excellent talk by Andrew Maclean
- 'Structural insight into the apicomplexan drug target cytochrome bc1'
British Society for Parasitology