Professor of Parasite Biology and Dean of Bioscience Partnerships, University of Edinburgh; views my own
Edinburgh, UK
Joined July 2013
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I don't post much on here these days, but sad to say we lost our fabulous dog Gilbert today at 16 years. Despite many years of attempted science outreach for our parasite work, it was Gilbert who broke through with a feature in BBC Science magazine. He always stole the limelight.
We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the link below or share with your networks to join our team in Edinburgh
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New paper to assist all looking at VSG expression diversity-another excellent effort from @GuyOldrieve
vsgseq2: an updated pipeline for analysis of the diversity and abundance of population-wide Trypanosoma brucei VSG expression biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Please consider applying for this post doc position in our lab if you have excellent bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Exploring the chromatin proteome of Trypanosoma brucei repetitive elements (telomeres, centromeres, 70bp repeats, 177bp repeats) using TALEs. Another great collaboration with @Allshire_Lab
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We've previously looked at the developmental biology of trypanosome infections in mice, but parastaemias are unnaturally high in mice compared to cattle. Read what happens in cattle when blood parasitaemias are low and so quorum sensing may be limited...
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Dream job alert! @SPPIRITnetwork @BSPparasitology Postdoc job with the amazing Joana at @BiologyatYork . Amazing mentor, cool project, and lovely place to live and work.
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!
@UniOfYork @YBRI_UoY @BiologyatYork
Please RT!
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It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks for anyone fascinated by trypanosomes!
SPPIRIT: a network connecting Scottish early-career researchers in parasitology: Trends in Parasitology cell.com/trends/parasitology…
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Great to see this new work published from @GuyOldrieve and @KeithRMatthews @edin_eid showing how the parasites that cause sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to key genes
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Discover how non-tsetse transmitted trypanosomes lose the ability to make stumpy forms (and adapt to the monomorphic life style) and so can spread outside Africa. Read it via the link available via @keithrmatthews@bsky.social
Well done to all involved! “Matched with the colourful and comedically timed lighting designed by Rebecca Matthews.” #prouddad theatrescotland.co.uk/2024/0…
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#JobAlert Dr Mathieu Cayla is seeking a postdoc to characterise the signalling pathways during the lifecycle differentiations and host adaptation of T. brucei @BiologyatYork #parasitology #omics #pathogens
Deadline: 04/10/2024
Read more and apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post…
When I said someone in my lab was in our culture hood my daughter thought it was a science equivalent of the ‘neighbourhood’. We were cool for a very brief period. #gangstalab
