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Andreia Wendt

@albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social
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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 Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📢 Looking for a PhD in Biosciences at Warwick in 2027? 🔗 MIBTP: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 🔗 CENTA: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... 🔗 Warwick Life Sciences funded PhD opportunities: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... 🔗 Warwick Life Sciences PhD: warwick.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Exciting news! 🎉 Later in 2027, I’ll be joining the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor and starting my own lab. 🔬🪰 I’d love to hear from graduating PhD students/ECRs interested in developing postdoctoral fellowship applications to join us. 1/2
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SCNAT @scnat.ch · 08/10/2025
🧪 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
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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 · 11/07/2025
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
Fast & Fair peer review
A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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
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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...
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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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 · 02/07/2025
Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers. annas-archive.org/scidb
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🧬 SciDB - Anna’s Archive
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
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Shaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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 Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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 · 10/06/2025
💼 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 · 07/06/2025
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 Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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...
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
www.instagram.com/stories/swis... Happy Chagas day!
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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 Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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 Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1/... I don't know if you had a chance of participating on a DEI session before, but today I participated on my first. To be frank, at first, I thought, why am I being put forward to be part of a panel for diversity, equity and inclusion? Am I supposed to be representing diversity?
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Inspired by the upcoming diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) session @ the Joint Parasitology Meeting in Würzburg, I did a bit of unconscious bias selfcheck & reading. Highly recommend: tinyurl.com/4jx4tz7p #herminthology tinyurl.com/4s7awp8j #whatsinaname @scnat.ch synthesis video 1/3
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A Synthesis of the 9 webinars about Gender Equality and Diversity in the natural Sciences
YouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So excited to be back again in Würzburg and to meet up with old (and new!) friends and colleagues! Such a rich diverse program covering all things parasite <3 See you soon parasite gladiators!! #parasitesrule #parasites #parasitology
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 04/03/2025
🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻
nature.com
'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Pubmed and NIH websites are down. Probably consequences of the trash sitting in the white house. Here is an attempt at an alternative. europepmc.org Also, consider submitting your manuscript to preprint servers like connect.biorxiv.org/now/. #sciencewontstop #sciencedoesnotcareaboutyouropinion
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Marketa Novotna @marketanovotna.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you are a budding parasitologist and you would like to spend a great summer full of science, networking, and fun with your peers, there is still time to apply for Biology of Parasitism course at @mblscience.bsky.social! Deadline 29th of January. tinyurl.com/applyBoP
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Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches | Marine Biological Laboratory
A unique course for advanced graduate students, postdocs, and independent investigators, who are seeking in-depth training in modern approaches to the study of protozoan parasites and parasitic worms.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
rdcu.be/d5o3U it's out!!
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TransLeish: Identification of membrane transporters essential for survival of intracellular Leishmania parasites in a systematic gene deletion screen
Nature Communications - A systematic gene deletion screen targeting all predicted transmembrane transporters of the protozoan parasite Leishmania identified forty mutants that had a significant...
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If today you had to feed your lab "children" before saying goodbye to 2024, you are not alone 🙏🏼🧘🏻‍♀️🦠🔬👩🏻‍🔬🦟🪰 Happy new year everyone! May 2025 bring us all more health and all the good things one can hope for.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I feel seen.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
It has been a while since I last used those cookie cutters :)
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
My spouse is trying to make baby 3D printed cages for me. Prototype 1 ☑️
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Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre @nadia-izadi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
📣📣Group leader positions @pasteur.fr 👇
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Went to a second hand shop in Basel, look at what I found! #parasitesrule
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Cool parasite science alert.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Folks. 🙃 Anyone else suffering with narrative CVs? #help #narrativecv
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Is this Christmas?Join me in welcoming the wonderful Czech Society for Parasitology to Blue Sky!! @parazitologiecz.bsky.social They are also selling really amazing 2025 calendars with amazing pictures, reach out to them to see whether they have any left ;)
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am soooo happy to see @bspparasitology.bsky.social joining this platform! YES! Me running to update that starter pack --> 🏃🏻‍♀️
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We are advertising a funded PhD project to work on bumblebees and their brains! If you are a non-UK applicant, please get in touch with me by the **6th of December** with your CV and Cover/Motivation letter. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus2.ac.uk
Brain evolution and comparative anatomy across bumblebee species
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Mum's visiting Basel and I took her to #kunstmuseumbasel to see an exhibition on her favourite paintor - Paula Rego. I got particularly drawn to this tapestry. Is that a mosquitoe?!
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Interesting update of CanL in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Updating the epidemiology of canine leishmaniosis in the United Kingdom through the use of electronic health data
Dogs infected with Leishmania infantum have been increasingly reported in the UK mostly related to imported/travelled dogs. Up-to-date epidemiologic d…
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social
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Shirley Luckhart @shirleyluckhart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Several PhD opportunities available for Oct 2025 related to #OneHealth #PlanetaryHealth #HealthInequalities & #GlobalHealth in @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social availabile through the College Future Programme. 3.5 yrs & £17.5research budget. Details 🔽 - Please share www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences - MVLS Graduate School - PhD Research Opportunities - College Futures PhD ProgrammeSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon...
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There are articles about the #science migration now! 😄 That makes it official ❤🦋 #Xodus #eXit #nature #bluesky #bsky #sciencetwitter #sciencebsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Success!! 🩸🦟 #sandfly #newcolony #mybabies
A female phlebotomine sand fly fully engorged with blood (bright red) is visible behind a fine nylon mesh.
Another pair of sand flies are also visible in the corner mating.

Phlebotomine sand flies are the recognised most common vectors of the neglected tropical disease leishmaniasis.
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Have I mentioned how awesome @swisstph.bsky.social is? So proud to be able to work in this safe and wonderful environment ❤️🙏🏼
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I don't usually share very many pictures, but this was such an outstanding weekend, I want to remember this for years to come! I was so honoured to be part of this and share the stage with other passionate talented parasitologists. It was really great to meet old and new friends :)
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Do you think I should leave one of these at the mini hotel library?
Leishmaniasis comic book in a shelf containing other books
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Please circulate 💼 Post doc opportunity in York with Mathieu Cayla: Interested in trypanosomes, and have a background in molecular/ cell biology, or microbiology? Then apply here to work with a great PI in a fantastic location: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
jobs.york.ac.uk
Jobs - The University of York
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :) Feel free to extend the gap!! go.bsky.app/JWGLWrd
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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In case you are resistant to the transfer from that other place, to bsky, because of all the contacts you do not want to loose. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
zdnet.com
How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers
This extension lets you easily migrate your follows and block list from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, but you need to act fast because its functionality may be short-lived. Here's why.
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