Thank you so much to everyone who made it to #BSP2026 in beautiful, sunny Glasgow!!! (We asked the weather to behave while everyone was around)! The @bspparasitology.bsky.social 2027 meeting will be in Cardiff! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! Like Glasgow, People Make #Parasitology! 🥳🧬🧫🔬

🆕T. brucei Kozak sequences are unusual, hard to detect, but important for translation regulation - Check out the work conceived💡, carried out🔬and written up ✍️ by Philip Stettler, with only a minor contributions from me and the Polacek group - CONGRATULATIONS🎉👏 academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Kozak sequences regulate gene expression in Trypanosoma brucei

Abstract. The Kozak consensus sequence around the AUG start codon of mRNAs allows efficient cytosolic translation initiation in eukaryotes. It has not yet

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🚨 Postdoc position 🚨 I’m moving back to Switzerland this summer to launch my lab at the University of Zurich and am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (start: late 2026). Details & application: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie.... Please share! 😊

UZH: Postdoc

The newly founded Cryptosporidium lab at the Institute of Parasitology focuses on the genetic and transcriptomic basis of parasite virulence and persistence in Cryptosporidium and is committed to incl...

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How many mechanistically different protein insertases are there? Maybe fewer than you think! Check out our tale of pATOM36, MIM, MTCH1/2 and YidC in the preprint by Stephan Berger of the Schneider and the Ballmoos Labs. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A metal transporter in the plasma membrane of the pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. 🔗 buff.ly/wWqd5IR

We are actively recruiting a Post doc to work on the regulation of Toxoplasma différenciation. Please send a CV and cover letter if interested. ciil.fr/teams/apicompl…

Beautiful study by @macleanlab.bsky.social and co 👏👏 Perfect addition to holiday reading list! 🎉🎁

SheinerLab@sheinerlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Perkinsus marinus is an important marine pathogen yet we know little about its biology. @macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Why do we care? Because very little information is available for proteins found in #parasites, despite parasites causing a third of the total global burden of human #disease (!!!) #MPM2025 @parasitesrule.org 2/2 More about this problem is explained nicely here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploiting structural biology in the fight against parasitic diseases

Despite spectacular advances in structural biology over the past half-century, only approximately 2% of the structures in the Protein Data Bank are fr…

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Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026! Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission! Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟

Parasites need mitochondrial respiration to infect and spread. Effective anti-malaria and ani-toxoplasmosis drugs target respiratory complexes (e.g. atovaquone)! But how do the parasite complexes work and how do drugs inhibit them? Read Andrew Maclean and Alex Mühleip phenomenal work on this! 👇

Andrew Maclean@macleanlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share our latest paper. Result of a great collaboration between @sheinerlab.bsky.social @oninopantsu.bsky.social and Alexander Mühleip’s new group. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to have contributed to this wonderful study about #Toxoplasma #supercomplex led by @macleanlab.bsky.social, @sheinerlab.bsky.social and Alex Mühleip. Parasite mitochondria never cease to amaze! Please go checkout 👇

Andrew Maclean@macleanlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share our latest paper. Result of a great collaboration between @sheinerlab.bsky.social @oninopantsu.bsky.social and Alexander Mühleip’s new group. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A GRIP-ing and Tryp-ing seminar tomorrow - Joana Faria from the University of York! 2 pm (GMT) | 3 pm (CET) | 9 am (EDT) Link - uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8897218018... Passcode: 987702

As Sheinerlab is joining the trend, Chat seem to have known that @macleanlab.bsky.social started his own lab recently and took the executive decision to remove him from the photo 😲😆

It was a pleasure! Thanks for visiting and the wonderful talk.

André Schneider, University of Bern@schneian.bsky.social · last yr.

I enjoyed my stay in Glasgow a lot – Many thanks to Shikha @shikhas.bsky.social and Lilach @sheinerlab.bsky.social for hosting us! - They even arranged a kDNA network -themed carpet in our Hotel room.

GRIP-ing seminar this Friday from André Schneider from University of Bern. Don't miss it! Link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8255427338... Passcode: 984619

🏅 | @uofgsii.bsky.social's Professor Lilach Sheiner (@sheinerlab.bsky.social) was recently awarded the prestigious C.A. Wright Medal by the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for outstanding contributions to the discipline. Congratulations, Professor Sheiner! 🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

Thanks to the organisers for #EMBLRBP meeting! Can’t wait for day 3 to begin! Come to poster #148 to hear about how the most successful parasite might use RBPs to steal from you! The perfect poster to get you in the mood for @shikhas.bsky.social to dazzle you with some funky mitoribosomes @6:30PM!

Woohoo 🥳 So excited for you Andrew! Congratulations 🥂🎉

Andrew Maclean@macleanlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to start my lab at the University of Edinburgh studying sulfur metabolism in apicomplexan parasites. Kindly supported by an MRC Career Development Award. Watch this space for job opportunities!

Our Jan issue highlights @sppirit-network.bsky.social connecting #Scottish #parasitology #ECRs, written by R. Edgar @jackhanna.bsky.social @marketanovotna.bsky.social @martacampillo.bsky.social @mukul1190.bsky.social @shikhas.bsky.social @vfrank.bsky.social & M.Ridgway www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Trends in Parasitology@cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our 2025 January issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews #type2 #immunity in #gut #homeostasis & #Plasmodium transmission, #malaria elimination in Thailand, male & female #schistosome interactions, #placental malaria & #circumsporozoite protein-specific immunity, #community #ecology of #invasive #ticks, & more

Lovely work from @shikhas.bsky.social et al. 😍

SheinerLab@sheinerlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our structure-function analysis of the Toxoplasma mitoribosome reveals a novel role for poly A tails and repurposed protein domains in mending tens of rRNA pieces into a functioning ribosome www.nature.com/articles/s41... @shikhas.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social

Thrilled to have this out now! Go checkout our paper about the crazy #Toxoplasma #mitoribosome. Huge thanks to co-authors, collaborators and everyone involved 🙌

SheinerLab@sheinerlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Remember learning that ribosomes are made of 1 large subunit RNA + 1 small subunit RNA? Well, some cells defy this rule, and the most extreme case is Toxoplasma which makes its mitoribosome from >50 RNA pieces! Wanna know how? Read below

Welcoming place, exciting project, wonderful mentor! What are you waiting for?

Abhinay Ramaprasad@abhinay.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥁🥁 Job alertttt!! Interested in weird biology of malaria parasites? Inducible genetic screens? Single-cell RNAseq? Come postdoc with us - www.parafugelab.com ! International applicants or applicants just finishing up their PhD, both welcome!! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Excellent start to the year with @sloanmegan.bsky.social paper being accepted! Watch this space......

Interested in doing a PhD in parasitology? Lots of great projects available at the University of Edinburgh through the EastBio DTP (number 5 looks especially interesting…).

British Society for Parasitology@bspparasitology.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Multiple #parasite -based PhD opportunities from the EastBio Doctoral Training Programme at Edinburgh Uni! 🚨 - Deadline for all are the 17th Jan '25 1. Trypanosoma co-infections: tinyurl.com/vyv855kw 2. Mitochondrial genome complexity in #trypanosoma: tinyurl.com/c6hk652f #Parasitology #ntds

8/ Trainees at different career stages proposed 7 actions that academic institutions and departments can take to improve their science training. https://buff.ly/3VbDo1X

Research Culture: Actionable recommendations from trainees to improve science training

Early-career researchers propose seven actions that can be taken by research institutions and departments to improve science training.

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