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Frank Venter

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🇿🇦 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Edinburgh Uni | Parasitology, Coinfection, and Drug Resistance | Views are my own

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SPPIRIT Network @sppirit-network.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Our next Parents of Parasites virtual coffee is almost here! ☕🍼 A chance to catch up and connect with fellow parents in academia. 📅 1 December ⏰ 10:30 AM (GMT) 👉 SPPIRIT members: check your inbox 👉 Non-members: DM or email us to join
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SheinerLab @sheinerlab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Busy and exciting poster session @sppirit-network.bsky.social conference. SheinerLab's Anil and Victor spotted checking out some cool work!
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
3+ year #postdoc #job with Keith Matthews, in Edinburgh, studying #trypanosome virulence and transmission. Using a combination of bioinformatics and wet lab techniques. Share wide and apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our team.
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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Funding by the CDC for two monthly peer-reviewed journals, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Preventing Chronic Disease, will be cut.” EID has published novel, important work that brings #IDSky issues to light. Its loss will hurt.
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Emma Marie Briggs @emmamariebriggs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Next @bspparasitology.bsky.social TrypsClub Journal Club will take place online on 2nd April - all students, research assistants, postdocs and techs are welcome! Discussing a paper form the Mugnier lab group, featuring a Q&A with Moinca! Sign up here - tinyurl.com/5n6pme36
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1. TrypsClub Journal Club Registration
We are pleased to invite you to the second BSP supported TrypsClub meeting! 2nd April, 2 pm (GMT) Our aim is to bring together ...
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Unconscionable Perhaps the most disgusting announcement of a week full of disgusting announcements. The impact PEPFAR has played in global fight against HIV/AIDS is a shining example of how investing in global health is in the national interest. www.cbsnews.com/news/funding...
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Funding for AIDS relief program to stop after foreign aid pause ordered
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV.
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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Our Jan issue highlights @sppirit-network.bsky.social connecting #Scottish #parasitology #ECRs, written by R. Edgar @jackhanna.bsky.social @marketanovotna.bsky.social @martacampillo.bsky.social @mukul1190.bsky.social @shikhas.bsky.social @vfrank.bsky.social & M.Ridgway www.cell.com/trends/paras...
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Marija Krasiļņikova @scotomorph.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Do tissue-dwelling trypanosomes sustain transmission populations? A hot off-the-press @cellpress.bsky.social spotlight article by Steve Larcombe, Jane Munday @janemunday.bsky.social and @rmc9z.bsky.social -- www.cell.com/trends/paras...
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Do tissue-dwelling trypanosomes sustain transmission populations?
Trypanosoma brucei infectious populations are marked by considerable diversity in the parasite’s major antigen, the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). However, most parasites in the bloodstream are non-replicating, questioning how VSG diversity arises. Beaver et al. show that extravascular parasites in host tissues many explain this paradox and provide insight into trypanosome transmission.
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SPPIRIT Network @sppirit-network.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hi everyone! We are SPPIRIT, a Scottish ECR network created by a group of postdocs, research fellows, and PIs motivated to develop and strengthen the parasitology community in Scotland. Follow us for research highlights, training opportunities, Workshops and much more!
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Dr Marta Campillo @martacampillo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Are you a parasitologist in Scotland? Are you looking for ways to create a scientific community focused on ECRs in your area? In this TrendsTalk, we explain how we have done it for the Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation and Training (SPPIRIT)! www.cell.com/trends/paras...
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Ross Fitzgerald @jrossfitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New MRC-funded postdoc with me on comparative bacterial genomics/phylodynamics @roslininstitute.bsky.social university of Edinburgh. Great multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners at Shanghai Jao Tong University. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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PDRA in Bacterial Genomics
We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics at the Laboratory for Bacterial Evolution and Pathogenesis (www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/research/divisions/bacteriology/lbep) at The...
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Please enjoy and share widely 😄 Our new paper, led by @goldrieve.bsky.social , details the mechanisms of lifecycle simplification in #trypanosomes.
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our new paper - led by Hend Abu-Elmakarem and Oscar MacLean - sheds light on #mutation dynamics and the challenges of using molecular clocks to date #malaria parasite #evolution. Full link here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39570730/
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Remarkable evolutionary rate variations among lineages and among genome compartments in malaria parasites of mammals - PubMed
Genes encoded within organelle genomes often evolve at rates different from those in the nuclear genome. Here, we analyzed the relative rates of nucleotide substitution in the mitochondrial, apicoplas...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Silva Pereira Lab (Parasite Vascular Interactions) @silvapereiralab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We developed two systems of artificial bovine vasculature and we used them to study how trypanosome parasites attach to blood vessels.
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#EID is a network of 900 infectious disease researchers across different institutes in Edinburgh. Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The neoliberal uni project is going well. Maybe if unis stopped spending money on status building projects, paying management inflated salaries & treating students as customers and the government was serious about properly funding unis we might not be in this situation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Edinburgh University warns staff to expect job cuts
The institution blamed "unsustainable" funding and a fall in student numbers for the decision.
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Jane Munday @janemunday.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New preprint from others in the lab - Mapping origins of DNA replication in Leishmania. Great work Jeziel, Gabriel, @marquescata.bsky.social, Marija, Craig, Dario and the boss! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nuclear DNA replication in Leishmania major relies on a single constitutive origin per chromosome supplemented by thousands of stochastic initiation events
Understanding genome duplication requires characterisation of the locations where DNA replication initiates, termed origins. Genome-wide mapping of DNA replication origins has mainly been derived from...
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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...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Ramiro Tomasina @rtomasina1993.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🚨🚨🚨paper alert!!!!! Finally out!! Our small contribution to the trypanosomatids field! Using UExM we explored the journey of Trypansoma cruzi inside the host cell mdpi.com/2076-0817/13/1… @carlos_robello @paraymicologia
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Looking to connect with other researchers working on trypanosome and kinetoplastid biology? Then here's a started pack. go.bsky.app/5TQRGZE Please let me know if you'd like to be added, so we can grow this community.
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Matthew Sinton 🏳️‍🌈 @mcsinton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Please share the advert, either on here or with your departments, if you’re able to 😊
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
A huge blow to the global #parasitology research community. Baffled by the #NIH decision to end funding for such a valuable resource... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Parasitologists up in arms as NIH ends funding for key database
Trove of data-mining resources on malaria and other killers set to go dark this weekend
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Why is it taking so long for #mpox vaccine to reach Africa? In Context Newsroom Jimmy Whitworth discusses global vaccine inequity & says action urgently needed to tackle outbreak of 'lethal new variant' #publichealth 👉 bit.ly/3AZaM4A
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There's an mpox vaccine. Why is it taking so long to reach Africa? | Context
Democratic Republic of Congo is desperate for mpox vaccines while some nations have stockpiles they may never need. Why the delay?
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance. I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South). T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
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