July 6, 2020
Welcome to Dominik Brokatzky
Lab News
February 5, 2020
CAGECONTROL
Congratulations to Ana Teresa López Jiménez who was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to discover factors that control Shigella flexneri entrapment in septin cages.
February 5, 2020
INCAGE
Damián Lobato-Márquez’s INCAGE project has been selected for publication in the ‘Results in Brief’ section of the European Commission’s CORDIS website:
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/413232-power-struggle-between-shigella-bacterium-and-its-human-victims-involves-tails-and-cages
February 5, 2020
Use of zebrafish to understand dysentery incidence
Congratulations to Vincenzo Torraca who was awarded a Wellcome ISSF / LSHTM Fellowship to explore Shigella sonnei biology in vivo using zebrafish infection.
January 8, 2020
Lister Institute Summer Studentship 2020
Lister Institute Summer Studentships now available, we are happy to receive applications from undergraduates interested in cutting edge science.
Find more info here: https://www.lister-institute.org.uk/summer-studentships/
December 31, 2019
Modeling Human Infection in Zebrafish
Thank you Trends in Microbiology for highlighting our work with Trends’ Editors’ Picks and Jan 2020 cover
http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/trends-editors-picks-the-best-new-reviews-for-december
November 3, 2019
MRC-LID PhD position available on future of zebrafish infection biology
How to apply (deadline January 1 2020): http://mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/apply/
Project: http://mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/files/2019/10/Mostowy-Osborn-Pittman.pdf
November 3, 2019
Check out new preprint from the lab
In vivo control of Toxoplasma gondii by zebrafish macrophages
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/828624v1
October 7, 2019
Bacterial ‘striptease’ evades antibiotics – BBC News
Happy to work with Katarzyna Mickiewicz and Jeff Errington at Newcastle University, innovative use of zebrafish to follow bacterial cell biology in vivo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49826085
October 7, 2019
Zebrafish Infection and Immunity 2019 meeting report highlighted in Lab Animal
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-019-0400-0
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