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🎉 Join Us for Parasite Day with PiP 2025! We are thrilled to announce Parasite Day with PEERs in Parasitology (PiP) on June 27, 2025, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EDT! This virtual symposium will spotlight groundbreaking work in parasitology by scientists from historically excluded backgrounds.

Parasites need mitochondrial respiration to cause disease. Indeed, common anti-malaria drugs target respiratory enzymes (e.g. atovaquone). But how do the parasite enzymes work and how do drugs inhibit them? Read Andrew Maclean and Alex Mühleip phenomenal work to find out! 👇

For those of you voting in Philadelphia: advice from the housemate: vote yes on the urgently needed prison oversight board!

Sebastian Shaw ⁦Shaw Sebastian⁩ organizes a cheese bracket for the lab. Who will win?

It's summer and time for our swimming pool associated outbreaks of Cryptosporidium! Here, Maria Merolle Penn IGG Boris Striepen lays out the challenges to making a vaccine for this enteric pathogen. doi.org/10.1016/j.muci…

One of my new fascinations following #EESInfection talks - Rhoptry-mediated secretion - seems almost like a eukaryotic version of TTSS? An apical membrane complex for triggering rhoptry exocytosis and invasion in Toxoplasma | The EMBO Journal embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

My lab uses a highly sophisticated AI system to manage access to PCR machines that appears to hinge on an army of continuously recycled pieces of tape with your name on it.

Parasite of the Month: #Cryptosporidium #hominis, the most common cause of #cryptosporidiosis in humans, authored by Wanyi Huang, Yaoyu Feng & Lihua Xiao. authors.elsevier.com/a/1l04j5Eb1xN6…

Just looking at this in West Philadelphia used book store. Quick reminder that Philadelphia Canoe Club has a few spots left for its 2025 kayak or canoe whitewater novice training. Starts this Friday! Go to philcanoe.org

Congratulations, Sam Kurup, on receiving the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award from The Burroughs Wellcome Fund bwfund.org/news/announcin…

Must be pride weekend!

So there are some clear ups of working for a vet school - for one the library offers the stuff you really want to read this summer! Hedgehogs, miniature pigs and musteloids - I already feel happier! ⁦Penn Vet⁩

Registration now open for the 2025 edition of MPM in Woods Hole. We hope you can attend! 👇

For the immunologists still on X science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Microbial Pathogenesis Peeps - New Investigators - this one is for you! Easy first round one pager. Break out your imagination and think of those high risk-reward projects and risks you want to take.... bwfund.org/funding-opport…

Federal science cuts aren’t just halting medical research or disrupting clinical trials. They are already costing us $8.1 billion and 35,000 jobs. The projected loss is $16 billion and 68,000 jobs every year. This reaches every corner of America.

Dr Honorine Ward highlights Adam Sateriale & colleagues’ recent Cell Host & Microbe article on a #virulence factor, #Cryptosporidium #MVP1, modulating #intestinal #microvilli by interacting with host #EBP50 & #CDC42. Tufts Medical Center The Francis Crick Institute authors.elsevier.com/a/1lH505Eb1xN6…

Four in five UK dairy farms battling cryptosporidiosis, study finds ift.tt/HaRVpN4

Just a Wednesday at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Spring has sprung and there are -so- many flowers. Plant something new and grow it with a BWF PATH award. Letters of Intent are due July 17. If your lab is shifting into a higher gear, don’t talk yourself out of applying!