Our latest story on Clofazimine resistance in Cryptosporidium! What started as a side project turned into one of the most interesting stories.

Genetics 101 😊

#Cryptosporidium #Apicomplexa #Clofazimine #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #ParasiteResearch

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After this weekend’s extensive firings at NIH and CDC - focused mainly on young scientists - like the ENTIRE class of epidemic intelligence service - I have a hard time to choose my music. This is the closest I have been to bitter - in my 30 years in US science.

Global Parasitology Seminar next Monday: Ira Blader on Toxoplasma & oxygen. 2/10/25 12 pm EST in person & zoom. ⁦‪@TrendsParasitol‬⁩ ⁦‪@BSPparasitology‬⁩ ⁦‪@parasitesrule‬⁩ ⁦‪@AmSocParasit‬⁩ ⁦‪@AS_Para‬⁩ ⁦‪@pennvet‬⁩ ⁦‪@SFParasitologie‬⁩ ⁦‪@CTEGD‬⁩

As the days begin to wear on me and I wake up with more worry than usual I saw this (posted by ‘English Literature’) … and it saved some part, of a day I rued.

First Global Parasitology Seminar of 2025: Nathan Schmidt on Malaria & Microbiome. Monday 01/27 12 pm US EST. @womeninmalaria @BSPparasitology @FightingMalaria @AmSocParasit @UPenn_I3H @MBLBoP

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York!

Please share!

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Come and celebrate the exceptional career of Mark Carrington (24th March at University of Cambridge)!

Go and see a new picture of the handsome Dr. Hunter who was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the The American Association of Immunologists for 2025! Congrats! https://www.aai.org/Awards/Career-Awards/Distinguished-Fellows-of-AAI/Current-Recipients?utm_source=community_alert&utm_medium=email_header…

Delighted to share our study on a major Toxoplasma virulence factor that prevents lytic host cell death.
Many thanks to @parafrap.bsky.social for support, constructive reviews and all labs involved: Melissa Lodoen, Hiba El Hajj, @gissotlab.bsky.social, Karine Le Roch
Link : rdcu.be/d6m3G

First meeting of 2025 this Wednesday!

Don’t miss Yi-Wei summarizing his amazing work as an Assistant Professor. This will be both, great science and a lot of fun!

Terrific new paper on C. hominis pathogenesis: Multicopy subtelomeric genes underlie animal infectivity of divergent Cryptosporidium hominis subtypes | Nature Communications https://buff.ly/4fPE4li

My neighborhood has a cool new mural!

Belated holiday wishes everyone! I don’t have a Christmas sweater in me but Bethan Wallbank suggested this as closer to my persona. BTW if you (like me) are still figuring out whether to ditch X for bluesky, try the app called buffer where you can do both with one post for now.