Grace Vick is a Department of Infectious Diseases, UGA Ph.D. candidate in the Vasant Muralidharan studying the molecular function of proteins in Plasmodium falciparum. ctegd.uga.edu/trainee-spotli…

UW-Madison is advertising a tenure-track faculty position in Infectious Diseases, broadly defined. Come join our expanding department in beautiful Madison! Please share and read more👇. (1/5) jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant… #TTjobs #academicjobs

Remember how many of us were super upset about NIH's proposal to limit K99 eligibility to 2 years? If you never managed to to submit your input to NIH yet, the feedback form is open until October - don't forget! rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6660cc1aa12…

Did you know the #apicoplast of #Plasmodium falciparum has a problem in decoding methionine and isoleucine codons unless it modifies the #tRNA posttranscriptionally? Read to know the story from the Prigge Lab Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Years ago, I struggled with visas Today, I see my students struggling with visas Unfair, unjust, inequitable systems are still in place

Dr. Usheer Kanjee from Duraisingh Lab opens the morning session of #MPM2024 DAY 2, sharing his work on Plasmodium vivax. parasitesrule

Congratulations 👏🏼🎉 to Dr. Usheer Kanjee is on a fantastic talk and your new position as an assistant professor at WashU . HE IS HIRING!!! parasitesrule

Wayne T Cheng, PhD student candidate at UGA from Dr. Chester J Joyner lab is presenting their work on getting P. Vivax in vitro culture That would be an absolute game changer to the field.

Thanks Boris! Grace Vick did such a great job! Super sad to be missing #mpm2024. The zoom only increases my FOMO!

The scale of loss caused by defunding VEuPathDB will be fully realized in the coming months. Not being entirely hyperbolic when I compare this to arson in the library of Alexandria. Our collective expertise in the Global health community resides here, but in danger of being lost

Just saw the same presentation at #mpm2024 It is clear that the funding decision was made without much thought about the end user or how we use the NIAID Bioinformatics BRC resources. The lack of transparency from a federal agency is troubling.

Looking for a faculty position? Join our department UW School of Vet Med UW-Madison. We are recruiting a tenure-track faculty in Infectious Diseases. An amazing campus, promoting cutting edge research in a collaborative environment, in the beautiful city of Madison. Please share!

Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at VEuPathDB.org to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future 🔗veupathdb.org

Not a great decision by NIH NIAID News IMO The piece doesn't mention that the database also includes FungiDB which covers many human pathogens. Not clear whether NIAID will replace this resource with anything. science.org/content/articl…

Leslie Vosshall PhD NIH Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli VEuPathDB is so much more than just another data repository. The ability to integrate results from different types of experiments and across species, expertly curated datasets to enhance accuracy, and lots of orphan data (no repository) like phenotypic screens.