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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt

@albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social

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https://linktr.ee/andreia.wendt Molecular Parasitologist Cute aggression over protozoa under a microscope 🔬🦠🧫 #transporters #leishmania #sandflies #drugs | Charles University 🇨🇿 | SwissTPH🇨🇭 | GHTM/IHMT 🇵🇹

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ever wonder how Leishmania survives in a sand fly’s gut?
We just dropped a preprint where we CRISPR’d our way through the parasite’s transporter genes—and found the VIPs that keep it alive in its insect host. 🧬🦟

Check it out 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Leishmania #sandflies #parasitesrule

Identification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand flies

Leishmania amastigotes ingested by female phlebotomine sand flies are exposed to a harsh and dynamic environment, markedly different from that of their mammalian host. Within the sand fly s alimentary...

www.biorxiv.org

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SCNAT @scnat.ch · 1d

🧪 Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

SCNAT @scnat.ch · 16d

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 1d

whyyyyy?

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jul 20

If you never petted a bumblebee you are seriously missing out. Go do it. Be gentle. Share the feelings.

bumblebee collecting polen from lavender flowers.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Jul 11

Looking to get involved in peer review?

Check out the Fast & Fair initiative run by @biologyopen.bsky.social.

journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

#PeerReview #PaidWork #Journals #Academia #Research #Biology #BiologyOpen

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jul 10

Identification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand flies

www.biorxiv.org

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wondering about the role of the Leishmania promastigote flagellum at the initiation of infection? It is essential but not via its motile function! Great work by Tom Beneke, Eva Gluenz @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social and colleagues 👍
www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · Jul 2

Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers.

annas-archive.org/scidb

🧬 SciDB - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

annas-archive.org

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am very much looking forward to this!

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Shaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social · Jun 21

Have a postdoc position to start October 2025 to develop vector-borne pathogen genomic assays on ONT platforms. International travel will be required to Southeast Asia (Singapore and Malaysia). Looking for a hybrid position of wet lab and bioinformatics. DM me for more information. Please share!

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jun 18

"Wrong and Wronger"

a man wearing a helmet and goggles is riding on the back of another man on a motorcycle

ALT: a man wearing a helmet and goggles is riding on the back of another man on a motorcycle

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Join me as I dive in another fantastic piece by the group of Tom Beneke and colleagues using the recently Leish-adapted cytosine base edit approach. #leishmania #cytosinebasedit #genediting #crispr

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

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LabEx ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social · Jun 10

💼 PostDoc position (2 years) on Trypanosoma brucei | Bordeaux, France | Lab MFP with Dr. Frédéric Bringaud @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

🔬 Glycerol and differentiation in Trypanosoma brucei

🗓️ Deadline: September 15.
Start: by November 2025

labex-parafrap.fr/fr/emplois/4...

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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · Jun 7

PhD's log:

You aren’t a real researcher until you’ve had someone say to you

“I have more of a comment than a question.”

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Jun 4

this.is.not.a.sandfly.

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · May 30

Is it fascism?

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · May 27

Also not this one.

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Apr 28

Scary to see your family and friends freaking out because there are no conclusive explanations from trust worthy sources on what the cause of this is. Crossing fingers for this to be just a scary few hours and for everything to go back to normal soon 🙏🏼
#blackout #Portugal

CNN @cnn.com · Apr 28

Large parts of Spain and Portugal experienced major power outages, reports said.

Parts of Spain and Portugal hit by major outages, reports say | CNN

Large parts of Spain and Portugal experienced major power outages, reports on Monday said.

www.cnn.com

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Apr 21

you can remember it is the XXI century and there are a bunch of tools out there that can help you overcome this challenge.

Example:
Go to saymyname.io or www.name-coach.com/events/name-...
write the name & its origin, let's say "Andreia", "Portugal", hear it & say it out loud.

Works like a charm.

www.name-coach.com

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Apr 21

Saying someones' name accurately in an international context can be challenging.

If you are chairing a seminar or conference session I can highly recommend you either find your speakers ahead of time and ask them how you can pronounce their name to the best of your abilities or...

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Apr 14

www.instagram.com/stories/swis...

Happy Chagas day!

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Apr 13

Contemplating my tulips in my upcycled @bspparasitology.bsky.social beer bottles from the Spring meeting in Aberystwyth in 2018 ❤️🥰

Beer bottles with illustrations of parasites, being reused to hold colourful tulips on a table towel displaying colourful beetles.

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Mar 21

Speaking of spelling---> letting not leeting.

lol

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hi everyone, (usully I don't care, but today I guess I do) just leeting everyone know, in case you don't already know...

My name is Andreia.

Not Andrea.

Not Andria.

Not Anderia.

Not Andiria.

Not Andra.

Andreia.

Thanks.

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Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Mar 14

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This steals their rightful time to do science, write science, grants.

More lucky privileged need to invest their time to champion DEI.

Stop the excuses to miss these meetings.

Andreia Albuquerque Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · Mar 14

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care either way) but I want to highlight "outloud" the unfairness that is to have the already disasvantaged minorities that champion DEI meetings worldwide, to stop science for the time they are doing so, to teach other lucky priviliged people like me and others how we are discriminating them.

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