TRAINING: Swiss TPH, Ifakara to offer field malaria course in Tanzania @Ifakarahealth, Swiss TPH will host a 4-week postgraduate course on malaria prevention, control and elimination in Tanzania in May 2023. Those interested to attend should send applications by Feb 28, 2023.

Today’s profile comes from Dr. Rina Fu Rina Fu, a lecturer & scientist-artist Edith Cowan University (ECU) who engages all ages & abilities using #song, #workshop, #book, #video & #craft. Her research focuses on #indigenous medicines & new drugs to fight #malaria. #WomenInParasitology

Fantastic seminar by Mattie Christine Pawlowic today! So nice to see the new developments in Cryptosporidium transmission featuring work by Ross Bacchetti Emma Beatrice Colon @jackchanna Simona Seizova PhD Stunning microscopy images 🤩 York Biomedical Research Institute Biology at York WCAIR Univ of Dundee

Schisto day in Cameroon on July 26th, 2023. A unique experience for local awareness talks and local networking in the fight against schistosomiasis. Save the date, disseminate and register now. Visit impm-cm.org and register by June 09th, 2023. #IMPM #MINRESI

Congrats Laura-Isobel! McCall-Lab Women In Parasitology

Registration & abstract submission is now open for the 34th Molecular Parasitology Meeting #MPM2023 Manuel Llinas Lebrun Bibo Li Omar Harb 🍉 Deepali Ravel 👉🏼1: Register & get confirmation code 👉🏼2: Submit abstract -confirmation code required 🔗parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxiv

American friends and colleagues – Another open call, The Fulbright Program this time for US citizens to apply for a postdoc position at the Hebrew University. We have a couple of cool projects waiting just for you! Email or DM me for more details. Please RT🤩

Congratulations to Dr. Regina Cordy, WFU Biology Assistant Professor, at Wake Forest University.👏🎩 - Dr. Cordy was awarded the 2022-23 Award for Excellence in Research at WFU! #WomenInStem - Click 🔗 in bio for more 2023 WFU Biology Faculty Honors & Announcements under News & Events.

Congratulations to our amazing co-Director, Faith Osier, who has won a Julia Higgins Award. It celebrates her work as a role model and champion for EDI and her mentoring and support of female staff/students. So very well deserved!😀You are certainly an inspiration to us.

We will shortly be hiring a lab tech. If you've just finished your undergrad/masters in the UK, this is a great opportunity to get more lab experience before taking your next step. Will share the application link once it's live! Pls retweet SPPIRIT Network

It’s Vector Biology Day at the @Gordonconf Malaria Research Conference #GRCMalaria and Photini Sinnis and I are in our matching mosquito clothing, enjoying presentations from an all-star, all-female group of speakers!

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

Brillant talk by Grace from the ⁦@MuralidharanLab⁩ 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…

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

Read the latest paper from UoD Life Sciences WCAIR Univ of Dundee Anna Trenaman, Michele Tinti, Richard Wall & David Horn in Nature Communications buff.ly/4dfc3C6 @BSParasitology@AmSocParasit @wiparasitology #trypanosomes

We’ve taken a break, but are looking to make a comeback! We will likely feature a #BugOfTheMonth again and would love your input. Where should we start???

🎉 Congrats to Anju Abraham from WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) on receiving a SEED grant. The project aims to improve the sensitivity of an established assay that detects P. vivax antigens in the blood. This would enable detection of individuals with asymptomatic and hidden P. vivax infections.

SAVE THE DATE Dr. Maria-Jesus Pinazo from Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative will be presenting at the United States Chagas Disease Providers' Network Virtual Presentations Grand Rounds, provided by BCMHouston. For zoom info ➡️ bit.ly/3NAjjye BCM_TropMed Eva Clark Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD ASTMH Rojelio Mejia, MD