Mostowy Lab

Olivia Hill awarded joint studentship with the Lister Institute and Microbiology Society

Lister Institute Summer Studentships: https://www.lister-institute.org.uk/summer-studentships/

Mostowy Lab receives RMS Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020

Thank you to Royal Microscopy Society for recognising our work.

https://www.rms.org.uk/study-read/news-listing-page/mid-career-scientific-achievement-award-winners.html

Welcome to Dominik Brokatzky

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.

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

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.

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/

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

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

Check out new preprint from the lab

In vivo control of Toxoplasma gondii by zebrafish macrophages

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/828624v1