Our last manuscript is out! 🚨
We identify double stranded RNAs in embryonic stem cells - full of transposons, especially young LINEs and LTRs 🧐
🧬Happy Friday Reading🧬
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This week, our paper came out in @jem.org showing that:
This week, our paper came out in @JEM showing that:
1. Long-lived Tim-4+ macrophages are present in the lamina propria and submucosa/muscularis.
2. Macrophage-derived TGF-beta is key to instructing macrophage identity in the lamina propria.
🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Megan Sloan has been awarded a 2026 @sulsa.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize for work showing excellent potential to make an impact in the field of life sciences.
🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
📺 SULSA video: youtu.be/nJASKkxqMpA?...
Hi all, I'd like to share some news - I will soon be moving to Lisbon, Portugal to start my very own lab @gimminstitute.bsky.social!
The Epithelial Biology of Apicomplexan Infections lab (Epi-Api lab for short) will focus on the special relationship between #epithelial cells and #Cryptosporidium.
Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done!
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Sara MaciasRNA
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! 🥳🧬🧫🔬
Nature Microbiology - Single-cell RNA sequencing is used to study the sexual development of Toxoplasma gondii in cats, generating a transcriptional atlas and showing that the female-specific gene...
New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism.
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social
University of Glasgow School of Infection & Immunity
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Come and find us at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026! 👋
Find out about our upcoming events, share your feedback, and see how you can get involved with the committee.
And if nothing else... our goodies might just tempt you 😉
Dr Joanne Power
Jon Boyle
bishara marzook
Bungo Akiyoshi
Helen Price
We open with @sheinerlab.bsky.social introducing a scientist who needs no introduction - Dominique Soldati-Favre. Dominique was awarded lifetime membership to the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for her immeasurable contributions to the field. #bsp #parasites #peoplemakeglasgow
SPPIRIT Network
New study from Jayaraman, Prise, et al. from the Grainger & @tovah-shaw-lab.bsky.social labs @edinburghbiology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social challenges the prevailing paradigm that long-lived gut #macrophages are restricted to the muscularis. rupress.org/jem/article/...
