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So happy to have started this a long time ago along a great group of PhD students. Do participate at this amazing meeting in the year EMBL turned 50.

Thanks, I like the red cell basketball

just WOW

What happens when you apply design principles from bottom-up synthetic biology to immunology? In Heidelberg and together with Freddy Frischknecht @platten_michael & Oliver Fackler we compiled the prospects of bottom-up synthetic immunology Nature Nanotechnology rdcu.be/dR0r0

My 5 cents on #parasites translated from the original German by AI (making it a 'funny' read) as a short introductory text for non-experts: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

CONGRATS to Franziska Hentzschel for obtaining an European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to work on the 'weird' but wonderful biology of the Arp2/3 complex in #malaria #parasites: klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/newsroom/en/er…

Happy to see our first 'blendered' cover out EMBO Mol. Medicine featuring an 8 year journey towards a new type of attenuated #malaria #parasite: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… - just wondering what that ring is doing there

After 4 years of revisions (ok, not exactly working 24/7 on it) Jessica Kehrer and Emma Pietsch got this manuscript to the next level. Using APEX-based proximity labelling in #malaria #parasites we found a new protein important for Plasmodium gamete egress+ookinete migration.

Can’t be at MPM24 ⁦parasitesrule⁩ so sending greetings with ⁦BiologyofParasitism⁩ 24 Tshirt. Please all: give big hugs to David Roos and ⁦Omar Harb 🍉⁩ for their incredible efforts towards keeping ⁦VEuPathDB⁩ up and running.

🎉 We're excited to announce the brand new EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Infection: pathogens, hosts, and microbiomes'. Join #EESInfection and be part of discussions that will fertilise the transfer of technologies across fields. Learn more and register: ➡️ s.embl.org/ees25-04

Looking forward to an exciting two weeks of infection conferences EMBL in May. This one just following the classic BioMalPar. For people from far away, why not stay for both?

New preprint with Ulrich Schwarz (also @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social) and Johanna Ripp for Physics of Parasitism: Traction force generation in motile #malaria #parasites is modulated by the Plasmodium adhesin TLP. Sporozoite still running in circles, but in many colors. Red: strong force. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out in Nature Physics: great work by Christina Hueschen, Rob Phillips, Alex Dunn and coworkers on gliding motility of apicomplexa, combining imaging of surface flows with continuum mechanics modeling. Read the open access paper here nature.com/articles/s4156…

I stared off doing neuroscience and dwindled into the abyss of infection research. So happy that Misha Kudryashev 🔬 ❄🕊️ took up the torch.

Go BiologyofParasitism 2025

You can celebrate success in science as if it's sports. So proud and happy for the amazing students Uni Heidelberg and their fearless leaders. What a joy to watch.

How come we know so little about a protein that is the basis for the currently available malaria vaccines? New review on the Plasmodium circumsporozoite protein, with Photini Sinnis and Mirko Singer out now: authors.elsevier.com/c/1k7sK5Eb1xJI…

Save The Date : The Next EMBO Workshop « Host-parasite relationship: from mechanisms to control strategies », organized by LabEx ParaFrap, will be held October 5-8, 2025 EMBO Events #Science #Parasite #France

Wonderful personal science story. More people should write them. Congrats Misha.

I am now at @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social. But wanted to share a last wish granted: I always wanted to name a protein after a Greek goddess or nymph and here we go: journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… Happy holidays everyone