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
Congratulations to Vincenzo Torraca who was awarded a Wellcome ISSF / LSHTM Fellowship to explore Shigella sonnei biology in vivo using zebrafish infection.
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/
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
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
In vivo control of Toxoplasma gondii by zebrafish macrophages
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/828624v1
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
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-019-0400-0
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Shigella sonnei infection of zebrafish reveals that O-antigen mediates neutrophil tolerance and dysentery incidence
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/719781v1