Elena Gómez-Díaz
@elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social
#Malaria Epigenomics Lab gomezdiazlab.wordpress.com at CSIC #STEMmum Feminist, womeninmalaria.es coordinator, SMBE councillor, #Outreach misionmalariacero.com
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The dynamic transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
To survive and multiply in different host niches, malaria parasites require sets of proteins that are expressed during the life cycle in a timely manner. Plasmodium malariae is a human malaria parasit...
www.biorxiv.org
🚨New preprint from the lab!
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
#NatMicroPicks
Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊
locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊
locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene-drive-capable mosquitoes suppress patient-derived malaria in Tanzania - Nature
Engineering of local Anopheles gambiae under containment enables the generation of a transgenic strain equipped with non-autonomous gene drive capabilities that robustly inhibits genetically diverse P...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊
locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊
locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking forward to this one 🙌
Do you want to join a community working to reduce the devastating toll of #malaria by pushing forward new ideas, innovations, and strategies? 🦟 🧬
Registration is now open for #EMBLMalaria: https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl
✍️ Submit your abstract by 18 Feb
🗓️ 27 – 29 May 2026
#BioMalPar
Registration is now open for #EMBLMalaria: https://s.embl.org/bmp26-01-bl
✍️ Submit your abstract by 18 Feb
🗓️ 27 – 29 May 2026
#BioMalPar
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Looking forward to this one 🙌
It has been a pleasure and super enriching experience to host Abduramane at our lab this year. We wish him all the best being certain that we'll continue working together. Bon voyage de retour to Mali 🙏
Today, Abdouramane Traore, PhD, gave a WIP seminar in the IPBLN.
Title: Reducing malaria burden in Mali, a scientific journey from ICER to Gomez-Diaz Lab and back.
Title: Reducing malaria burden in Mali, a scientific journey from ICER to Gomez-Diaz Lab and back.
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It has been a pleasure and super enriching experience to host Abduramane at our lab this year. We wish him all the best being certain that we'll continue working together. Bon voyage de retour to Mali 🙏
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open!
Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts
And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts
And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open!
Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts
And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts
And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Excited to release the Herculean efforts of @scottchisholm.bsky.social &Co. defining the subcellular #hyperLOPIT spatial proteome of #Plasmodium schizonts. Proteomes defining 24 subcellular niches, including exported compartments in the blood cell, are identified.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Excited to release the Herculean efforts of @scottchisholm.bsky.social &Co. defining the subcellular #hyperLOPIT spatial proteome of #Plasmodium schizonts. Proteomes defining 24 subcellular niches, including exported compartments in the blood cell, are identified.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
¿Es ético que se lleven a cabo proyectos de investigación en países del Sur Global sin que participe ningún científico local?
Descolonizar las prácticas científicas: el caso del desierto de Atacama en Chile
¿Es moral, ético o simplemente aceptable que se lleven a cabo proyectos de investigación en países del Sur Global sin que participe ningún científico local? Un estudio cuantifica esta problemática en la zona de la Puna Seca y el desierto de Atacama, en Latinoamérica.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
¿Es ético que se lleven a cabo proyectos de investigación en países del Sur Global sin que participe ningún científico local?
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Publication alert! 🔔 Our recent work exploring how Plasmodium uses a Rad51 independent homologous recombination to diversify its var gene repertoire is now published in 🧬 Nucleic Acids Research! @oupprimary.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social Read more here.
tinyurl.com/794brb6h
tinyurl.com/794brb6h
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November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Publication alert! 🔔 Our recent work exploring how Plasmodium uses a Rad51 independent homologous recombination to diversify its var gene repertoire is now published in 🧬 Nucleic Acids Research! @oupprimary.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social Read more here.
tinyurl.com/794brb6h
tinyurl.com/794brb6h
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Just hot out of the press! Rory developed a 3D microvessel model that recapitulates physiological pericyte coverage. We found that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt the barrier and halt ang-1 secretion. The activator AKB-9778 could rescue barrier disruption! Congratulations, Rory!
Today my main PHD project in the lab of Dr. Maria Bernabeu was published!
Using a 3D brain microvessel model, we show:
1) an unappreciated role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria pathogenesis
2) Tie-2 activation by AKB-9778 as a potential therapeutic avenue
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Using a 3D brain microvessel model, we show:
1) an unappreciated role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria pathogenesis
2) Tie-2 activation by AKB-9778 as a potential therapeutic avenue
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Just hot out of the press! Rory developed a 3D microvessel model that recapitulates physiological pericyte coverage. We found that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt the barrier and halt ang-1 secretion. The activator AKB-9778 could rescue barrier disruption! Congratulations, Rory!
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
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Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program.
If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃
Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program.
If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃
Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
EVOMG-DN
EvoMG-DN is a European Doctoral Network funded by the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), composed of 14 beneficiaries and associated partners from both academic and non-academic sectors.
www.evomg-dn.eu
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program.
If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃
Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program.
If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃
Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Next, it was time for Elena Gomez-Diaz ( @elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social ), from Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra at @csic.es , talking about the regulatory plasticity of Plasmodium and its importance for malaria.
October 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Next, it was time for Elena Gomez-Diaz ( @elenagomez-diaz.bsky.social ), from Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra at @csic.es , talking about the regulatory plasticity of Plasmodium and its importance for malaria.
Un ‘filtro de Instagram’ contra la malaria, vital para África: inteligencia artificial para detectar parásitos en segundos elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Un ‘filtro de Instagram’ contra la malaria, vital para África: inteligencia artificial para detectar parásitos en segundos
El proyecto MultiplexAI, liderado por instituciones europeas y africanas y con tecnología española, convierte microscopios convencionales en dispositivos capaces de diagnosticar enfermedades tropical...
elpais.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Un ‘filtro de Instagram’ contra la malaria, vital para África: inteligencia artificial para detectar parásitos en segundos elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Delighted to report our publication on a divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein that regulates malaria transmission to mosquitoes. Great work by Domi Kwecka , @jennyregan.bsky.social @choel Kim #malaria #ookinete #mosquitoes #signalling journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
A divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein promotes Plasmodium ookinete infection of the mosquito
Author summary Malaria parasites complete their life-cycle within mammalian and mosquito hosts requiring specialised forms to invade and establish infection in host tissue. In order to transmit to the...
journals.plos.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Delighted to report our publication on a divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein that regulates malaria transmission to mosquitoes. Great work by Domi Kwecka , @jennyregan.bsky.social @choel Kim #malaria #ookinete #mosquitoes #signalling journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
Have you ever wondered what happens with your microvessels after exposure to high temperature in fever? In this preprint former postdoc (ans soon to be PI) Viola Introini found that high temperatures cleaves glycocalyx , having severe consequences in malaria www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Febrile temperature enhances Plasmodium falciparum cytoadhesion by disrupting the endothelial glycocalyx
Fever, a universal host defense in infection and inflammation, paradoxically contributes to neurological complications in malaria. While febrile temperatures enhance the expression of parasite virulen...
www.biorxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Have you ever wondered what happens with your microvessels after exposure to high temperature in fever? In this preprint former postdoc (ans soon to be PI) Viola Introini found that high temperatures cleaves glycocalyx , having severe consequences in malaria www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
new from the lab -- we investigate 100% ethanol, DMSO salt solution (DESS), EDTA, RNAlater, and AllProtect as possible approaches for short term room temperature preservation of mosquito HMW DNA, nuclei for Hi-C, and RNA towards high quality reference genome creation. the key findings/tips are ....
Breaking the cold chain: solutions for room temperature preservation of mosquitoes leading to high quality reference genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662936v1
July 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
new from the lab -- we investigate 100% ethanol, DMSO salt solution (DESS), EDTA, RNAlater, and AllProtect as possible approaches for short term room temperature preservation of mosquito HMW DNA, nuclei for Hi-C, and RNA towards high quality reference genome creation. the key findings/tips are ....
These days you will see a lot of posts from me in relation to the #GazaGenocide. I don't usually use this channel for non-scientific issues. But 1) it's unbearable, 2) it's not a political opinion, it's humanity.
I appeal to the scientific community to stand up for #Gaza
I appeal to the scientific community to stand up for #Gaza
May 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
These days you will see a lot of posts from me in relation to the #GazaGenocide. I don't usually use this channel for non-scientific issues. But 1) it's unbearable, 2) it's not a political opinion, it's humanity.
I appeal to the scientific community to stand up for #Gaza
I appeal to the scientific community to stand up for #Gaza
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?"
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?"
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
Bárbara Díaz Terenti PhD student at the Gómez-Díaz Lab presenting at @events.embl.org #EMBLMalaria #BIOMALPAR our latest work on Plasmodium malariae transcriptome in the mosquito
May 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Bárbara Díaz Terenti PhD student at the Gómez-Díaz Lab presenting at @events.embl.org #EMBLMalaria #BIOMALPAR our latest work on Plasmodium malariae transcriptome in the mosquito
Reposted by Elena Gómez-Díaz
🔬✨'Women in Malaria' peer-to-peer workshop at #EMBLMalaria
♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.
Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼
♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.
Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼
May 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔬✨'Women in Malaria' peer-to-peer workshop at #EMBLMalaria
♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.
Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼
♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field.
Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼
My first race in many years (after 2 maternities) is for @womeninmalaria.bsky.social
There we go!!
There we go!!
May 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My first race in many years (after 2 maternities) is for @womeninmalaria.bsky.social
There we go!!
There we go!!
Universidades obliga a una profesora a elegir entre la baja de maternidad y un contrato de investigación www.eldiario.es/1_bb5d50?utm...
Universidades obliga a una profesora a elegir entre la baja de maternidad y un contrato de investigación
Los plazos establecidos en la convocatoria y los tiempos del embarazo, previo a la concesión de la ayuda, hacen inviable que Yolanda Ortiz disfrute del derecho que le otorga su maternidad si quiere ac...
www.eldiario.es
May 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Universidades obliga a una profesora a elegir entre la baja de maternidad y un contrato de investigación www.eldiario.es/1_bb5d50?utm...
Gracias al equipo de "No es un día cualquiera" de @radionacional.bsky.social por la entrevista y el reportaje
www.rtve.es/television/2...
www.rtve.es/television/2...
www.rtve.es
May 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Gracias al equipo de "No es un día cualquiera" de @radionacional.bsky.social por la entrevista y el reportaje
www.rtve.es/television/2...
www.rtve.es/television/2...
🚨New preprint from the lab!
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
The dynamic transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
To survive and multiply in different host niches, malaria parasites require sets of proteins that are expressed during the life cycle in a timely manner. Plasmodium malariae is a human malaria parasit...
www.biorxiv.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🚨New preprint from the lab!
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
This work reports for the first time the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito
Impressive indeed discoveries about AP2 TFs, hypervariable multigene families and genes without orthologues, and of unknown function
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...