Congrats Ross + team for first PI paper PLOS Pathogens on visualizing #actin dynamics in migrating #Plasmodium #sporozoites and showing role of divergent residues in filament localization and #malaria #parasite transmission: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Tell your friends📣 We have an open PhD position in our lab (funded by HFSP).

This student👩‍🔬 will work with the awesome woj_wie to study how thylakoid membranes are remodeled and repaired in response to changing light conditions☀️🌱

If you are interested, please DM or email📧

Excited to share our new study with the Müller and SchullerJM labs, online @nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2 . How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of the enzyme HDCR 🍩

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Almost 125 years ago, the #Plasmodium oocyst was discovered, revealing that #malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes 🦟. We wrote a little review how much we (don't yet) know about this stage. Check it out just for the beautiful oocyst drawings made by Giovanni Battista Grassi! 😊

We are thrilled to share our latest work of the atomic structure of the central apparatus (CA) within the famous '9+2' architecture of motile #cilia .
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Josie Ferreira shows a variety of cool different microtubule structures in the different live cycle stages of the Plasmodium parasite: different protofilament numbers, luminal helices, flat minus end caps, singlets, doublets triplets, quadruplets... #UKMT22

Today is #WorldMalariaDay ! The parasite that is causing the disease, #Plasmodium , is deadly, but beautiful at the same time. Look at this oocyst (a cyst-like stage that lives on the gut of the mosquito) forming thousands of daughter cells! (Magenta: Parasite, Cyan: DNA)

#Malaria #parasites are spat out by a #Mosquito ; today #Malaria Day2022 this will lead to over 600.000 infections leading to over 1000 deaths and again tomorrow...

Beautiful cryo-FIB paper ! And look at this conoïd in Plasmodium 🤩

'Microtubules in migrating mosquito forms consist of 13 protofilaments reinforced by interrupted luminal helices. Conversely, gametocyte microtubules consist of 13 to 18 protofilaments with doublets, triplets and quadruplets of varying arrangements' #MicrotubulePlasticity 🤩

Thank you to an incredible team Freddy Frischknecht Jan Kosinski Emma Pietsch Marc Siggel Franziska Hentzschel CSSB and to twiterless Vojta, Daven, Kay and Tim!

We are looking for someone who loves mosquitoes! Or is willing to learn 😉. In honour of #WorldMalariaDay why not apply to be our new Insectary Technician UNSW Medicine & Health & come help make tomorrow's malaria vaccines a reality external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5084…

Happy to complete our trilogy on #malaria #parasites EMBO Press on #Plasmodium sporozoites. After FORMATION in 2019, MIGRATION in 2021, it now is DISINTEGRATION. Breakup of sporozoites during skin passage limits transmission | EMBO reports embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Only one flagellar system? How boring. Manuscript under way and the main actor, Shewanella, on its way into the weekend.

We are looking for a Postdoc with a background in #AdaptiveOptics to improve cryo super-resolution FM and cryo-CLEM. Interested in a “cool” AO project at the interface of physics and biology here at the @CSSBHamburg? Get in touch!
uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenange…
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Many postdoc positions available ⁦Uni Heidelberg⁩ + partner institutes including on our interdisciplinary project with ⁦Hedda Wardemann⁩ + Nina Papavasiliou on #parasite surface proteins VSG and CSP. Check out link and apply health-life-sciences.de/jobs/interdisc…

Interested in integrating #cryoem and membrane #biophysics to understand how the immune system works? We’re recruiting! imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti… Mark Wallace