TrypsClub is back! Join us for the next journal club! Date: 16th July 2026 Time: 3:00pm BST Register here: lnkd.in/eh9nSkGA Link to the paper: lnkd.in/e_qhSi5F

Its all a game of Hide and Seek for African trypanosomes says BugBitten's new blogger Leon Walther -In the evolutionary arms race between humans and pathogens, our immune system has evolved a clever solution to fight with an unlimited diversity of pathogens go.nature.com/4eeZpHa

An exciting online journal club hosted by the SPPIRIT Network @sppirit-network.bsky.social !

SPPIRIT Network@sppirit-network.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for a journal club from the SPPIRIT Forum series on the 5th June! With @scottchisholm.bsky.social, the 1st author, we will discuss a preprint, in which he used the hyperLOPIT spatial proteomics to shed light on organelle biology in Plasmodium. Register on: tinyurl.com/3rjzh3m5

Join us for our next TrypsClub event! Everyone is welcome!

British Society for Parasitology@bspparasitology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re excited to welcome Lina Pinto-García @linapintogarcia.bsky.social as our special guest speaker to discuss her recent book, Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia. Time: Thursday 28.05.2026 , 3 PM BST Location: Zoom (Link available after registration) forms.gle/cVADyb6F5Dmh...

As part of our BSP miniseries showcasing the work and journeys of our members, Christina Naula @christina-naula.bsky.social interviews @glasgow.ac.uk -based PhD student Shannara Eilean Smith @shannaraeilean.bsky.social about her idea and inspiration for the this year's BSP Spring Meeting logo.

Thank you to Prof Mike Barrett & @christina-naula.bsky.social & anyone else involved in organising our post-#BSP2026 field trip to see William Leishman's former home in Blairmore! We learned so much & got lucky again with the sunshine! www.blairmorehall.com <- Village Hall link to support them!

Deeply disappointing to see the UK reducing help of millions of people in need of basic essential health care. Years of bad policy making running the country against a wall while scapegoating foreigners for their own misfortune is resulting again in innocent people suffering around the globe.

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting@healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌍 UK aid cuts are hitting African health systems hard. Clinics are scaling back services for maternal health, HIV, and malaria. Years of progress are at risk. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @who.int @unicef.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

As part of our "Supporting equity and diversity in Parasitology" Workshop, Dr Rafael Henry-Venson from @glasgow.ac.uk is showcasing the concept of Rainbow Office Hours - dedicated office hours hosted by LGBTQ+ staff to support LGBTQ+ students. 🏳️‍🌈

Join us for the next TrypsClub Career Talk!😊

British Society for Parasitology@bspparasitology.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Career Talk hosted by the BSP TrypsClub 📅 Date: 30 April 2026 🕒 Time: 2:00 PM BST 📍 Location: Zoom Register using the link or scan the QR code on the poster: lnkd.in/drypyMD8 The TrypsClub Team

The BSP spring meeting is not just offering great talks - we also have an exciting breakout program! @christina-naula.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk and co-host of @microbetv.bsky.social This Week in Parasitism is interviewing Prof Poppy @lamberton-lab.bsky.social about her scientific career.

(1/7) How does T. brucei achieve a 140-fold stoichiometric excess of VSG mRNA over upstream ESAGs from a single polycistronic unit? Our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reveals a mechanism of spatially regulated RNA decay to fine-tune expression of virulence genes

The BSP TrypsClub is back from its winter break! Join us for a discussion about #NTDs with Dr. Sabine Specht, Global Clinical Program Excellence Lead at Bayer AG, Switzerland. Sign up here: forms.gle/tXK62GWeqqfr...

Registration is open for our next TrypsClub Journal Club! 😊 If you fancy some cool Trypanosome science and a friendly supportive environment to discuss science then join us!

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! 🦟

Researchers from CSSB & @mpi-nat.bsky.social have generated a highly potent nanobody that neutralizes a protein essential for the herpes virus infection. Published in @nature.com, the findings promise new therapies to treat & prevent infections @leibnizliv.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de t1p.de/cxt7a

Join us for the first Career Talk of the 2025–2026 Tryps Club season! Prof. Paul M. Selzer will give us an insight into anti-parasitic drug development in industry. 📅 Date: 24.09.2025 🕒 Time: 12:00 pm BST 📍 Location: Zoom Register following link or the QR code on the poster lnkd.in/eA7b9QRx

The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Tryps Club is pleased to share our upcoming series of events. These sessions will bring together leading experts and the wider community to exchange knowledge, highlight research, and foster collaboration in parasitology. (1/5)

We’re pleased to share our new study, led by @jezieldamasceno.bsky.social, that used long-read, single molecule sequencing to reveal the full (?) picture of Leishmania DNA replication. Thanks, Mike Boemo and helpful reviewers @uofgsii.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Leishmania major chromosomes are replicated from a single high-efficiency locus supplemented by thousands of lower efficiency initiation events

DNA replication initiates at genome sites termed origins. Previous origin mapping approaches in the populations of the protozoan parasite Leishmania m…

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Drs @singh-parul.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social‬ Maureen Cabahug @fariatrypslab.bsky.social & @jessmbryant.bsky.social review #Plasmodium & #Trypanosoma #genome organization. #Trypanosome #Transcription #Chromatin #Epigenetics #Nuclear #Compartment www.cell.com/trends/paras...

How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social ! @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What a great first experience to take part in a review with such awesome fellow scientists!

Jessica Bryant@jessmbryant.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We @singh-parul.bsky.social teamed up with the amazing @fariatrypslab.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social to highlight how recent technological advances have revealed exciting new features of parasite genome architecture and its impact on survival and pathogenicity: www.cell.com/trends/paras...

New preprint alert! 🚨👇 I'm delighted to share the latest research from @jemmabetts.bsky.social in our group: ‘A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting’. Huge congratulations to Jemma for the first manuscript of her PhD! ✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting

Programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is a ubiquitous translational control mechanism in RNA viruses, allowing them to change the relative abundance of proteins encoded in different reading fram...

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Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes. An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification. Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

Postdoc in Structural Biology of RNA processing complexes

Postdoctoral positions in structural biology of macromolecular complexes are available in the laboratory of Dr. Eva Kowalinski at the EMBL Grenoble, France. We are looking for highly motivated and amb...

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🧬 Join us for the 3rd Journal Club hosted by the BSP TrypsClub! 🧬 Everyone is welcome — whether you're deep into Trypanosomatid research or just curious to explore fascinating biology, this is a great space to connect, learn, and discuss exciting new science!

So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

Specialised RNA decay fine-tunes monogenic antigen expression in African trypanosomes

Antigenic variation is a sophisticated immune evasion strategy employed by many pathogens. Trypanosoma brucei expresses a single Variant-Surface-Glycoprotein (VSG) from a large genetic repertoire, whi...

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Join us in our first TrypsClub Career Talk featuring Julius Lukeš! Everyone interested in Trypanosomes is welcome (except PI's - sorry)!

Guy Oldrieve@goldrieve.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re excited to kick off our first BSP-supported TrypsClub Career Talk with Prof. Julius Lukeš, Director of the Biology Centre at the Czech Academy of Sciences – an internationally renowned expert in parasitology and evolutionary protistology. 15th May, 2 pm (GMT) Sign up: forms.gle/uyiAUsjNSLd7...

🎬 This #WorldChagasDay, we're excited to announce our next short film, 'The Children of the Sierra,' about working with Indigenous Wiwa communities in #Colombia to test and treat people affected by #ChagasDisease. 📽️ Moronga Films

#ChagasDisease has the most severe impact among Latin America's impoverished communities but it is increasingly detected in other parts of the world. 100M people are at risk of infection. bit.ly/3vFipLv

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