The Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir Mike Ferguson CBE FMedSci FRS for major contributions in discovery science and application to the treatment of neglected infectious diseases. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/leeuwenhoek-lecture/

The United Kingdom as seen from the International Space Station.

-Credits: NASA

Great opportunity for a Research Assistant to join us on a project involving genomics and big-data analysis in molecular & cellular parasitology.
Apply by 10 July: jobrxiv.org/job/universi...
Interviews: 18 July

#ScienceJobs #CellBiology #MolecularBiology

Good news all round: Cat is promoted to principal investigator. The Cell Surface has its first IF released=6.2! And we are recruiting another research assistant to join the team and work on DRiF-Seq projects. Apply [here] (jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...) until 10 July; interviews 18 July.

Thank you Matteo Bonazzi @irim-life.bsky.social
#infectiousdiseases #inflammation #cellbiology #autophagy #endocytosis #plasmamembrane #celladhesion

By the way, the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM) is recruiting new group leaders! More info here:
application.igmm.cnrs.fr

And what a vibrant city Montpellier is! With its lively student population, crisscrossing trams, Mediterranean location and 75 research institutes! What a place to live and work it must be! @umontpellier.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

Really stimulating week in the South of France, working with colleagues at the forefront of host-pathogen cell biology research: @sergemostowylab.bsky.social , Sandrine Bourdoulous, Jean-Christophe Paillart, Matteo Bonazzi, Pierre Diamante, Patricia Bassereau and Nathalie Chazal.

We really enjoyed the Royal Society team’s visit to the lab this morning, to mark Majeed’s first year in his Career Development fellowship. The scheme is running for the second time, and hopefully a third round will open in September 2025.
#STEM #science #postdocs #fellowships
@royalsociety.org

Mark Carrington’s symposium: the combination of intellectual stimulation from the scientific content and the joy of reconnecting with colleagues and friends made the day a memorable and enjoyable one for all participants, and specially for Mark!
#parasites
@cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Mark Carrington’s symposium: the combination of intellectual stimulation from the scientific content and the joy of reconnecting with colleagues and friends made the day a memorable and enjoyable one for all participants.
#parasites
@cambridgeuni.bsky.social

It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks, particularly if you are fascinated by trypanosomes.

Being cartographers of parasite surfaces, at the molecular, functional and fitness levels, we’ve enjoyed reading this series of papers on data collection to atlas integration and beyond. Check it out:
‪@humancellatlas.bsky.social‬
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The Royal Society CDF scheme is a pilot, closed for this year, but more information can be found here: royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

Majeed and Cat are enjoying the Career Development Fellowship welcome event at the Royal Society – 3 days of science talks, networking workshop, library tours, video interviews and delicious vegetarian meals. A fantastic start for a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship.

Congratulations to Majeed! Last October, he was awarded a Royal Society Career Development Fellowship to decode the mechanism of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma vivax in the lab. Expect great developments soon!

royalsociety.org/news/2024/09...

Last year we celebrated our 10th lab anniversary! 10 years of experiments, socials, zillions of eppendorfs and tissue culture flasks, and lots of tea, coffee and cake. Looking forward to the next decade!

We are excited to join the BlueSky community and share our work here – the folks in the lab will keep you updated. To kick-start, we'll migrate some past posts from a different platform to BlueSky.

For more information on our work, visit gadelhalab.co.uk.

We combine several approaches, including genomics, molecular biology, computational and chemical methodologies to investigate conserved and unique biology of these organisms, with an emphasis on mechanism-based research in basic and pre-clinical sciences.

In the lab, we use African trypanosomes to model many of these interactions, including the role of novel receptors and transporters in scavenging macromolecules from the host, communication between parasites inside the host, or modulation of infection and immune response.

Hello BlueSky, I'm Cat, a cell biologist interested in the molecular interactions that take place at the surface membrane of single-celled parasitic organisms.