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Ana Matias
@anaamatias.bsky.social
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PhD student investigating Toxoplasma 🦠 in Treeck’s Lab. If you can’t find me in the lab I’ll probably be home reading a book 📚
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Ana Matias @anaamatias.bsky.social · 23d
You’re the sweetest 🥰
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Ana Matias @anaamatias.bsky.social · 24d
Had an amazing time at #ParaFrap!
Learning about parasites is always guaranteed fun ☺️ #EMBOWorkshop #IlesdesEmbiez
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LabEx ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social · 27d
The #EMBOWorkshop : Host–parasite relationship has come to a close! Thank you to all speakers, participants, and organizers for four inspiring days of science, discussion, and human connection. Until next time! 🧫✨
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Ana Matias @anaamatias.bsky.social · Jul 28
Congratulations, Bishara!! Super cool
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · May 19
Researchers from the Crick and @gimmfoundation.bsky.social have identified a family of proteins found in the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite that could be promising targets for future malaria drugs which are less susceptible to resistance.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite P...
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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · Apr 16
🎉 Finally online 🎉 GRA12, the first identified common virulence factor across Toxoplasma strains and murine subspecies! Check this improved manuscript after reviewers’ helpful suggestions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GRA12 is a common virulence factor across Toxoplasma gondii strains and mouse subspecies - Nature Communications
CRISPR screens reveal Toxoplasma’s GRA12 as a strain- and mouse species-transcendent virulence factor. GRA12 protects parasites from IFNγ-activated macrophage clearance and parasitophorous vacuole col...
www.nature.com
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Feb 14
Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️

This image shows a section of a human trunk organoid, precursor to the spine and nervous system, grown from human stem cells. The green spot is a notochord, a rod-shaped tissue that acts as a kind of GPS system.

Credit: Tiago Rito.
A heart-shaped figure with lots of small, grey blobs in the middle and outlined with a thick line of small blue blobs. There is a small group of green blobs to one side of the heart, where the blobs in the outline are pink instead of blue.
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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · Feb 6
Rumors are true! I joined the very welcoming @jennyrohn.bsky.social lab at UCL to dive into 3D organoids, persistent bugs and GAG layer! Exciting times ahead ✨
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Feb 5
This image shows cultured human cells called fibroblasts in purple, infected with a kind of parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.
#microscopy 🧪🔬

Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social
Thin, wispy purple tendrils cover the image, with a few small green blobs scattered in the foreground.
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