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freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social
Cell biologist working on malaria parasites and interested in host pathogen interactions, imaging, teaching, space exploration, gardening.
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📅 Save the Date! The EMBO Workshop "Host-Parasite Relationship: From Mechanisms to Control Strategies" organized by @ParaFrap will take place on October 5-8, 2025, at Les Embiez Island. Stay updated on registration opening —enter your email here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-83 #Science #Parasite

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Germany, verscholzt.

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Last day to submit an abstract for BioMalPar 2025, don’t miss out

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Happy to announce that we are running the third edition of the EMBL-UNESCO residency on infection biology. If you are an African female scientist and would like to do a research stay at EMBL, my lab is a possible hosting group. Deadline March 31st! www.embl.org/about/info/s...

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Infection: pathogens, hosts, and microbiomes EMBO:EMBL meeting - great line up of speakers. Abstract deadline is less than a month away! You don't want to miss this one if you are interested in infection biology.

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Gametes and sporozoites: Happy to see our paper probing the importance of #microtubule inner proteins in #Plasmodium published in final form @pnas.org - Sporozoites can do without MIPs but gametes cannot. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Review in this collection: The #Plasmodium #circumsporozoite protein #CSP, authored by Mirko Singer, Sachie Kanatani, Stefano Garcia Castillo, @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social, and Photini Sinnis. #Malaria #Vaccine #Mosquito #Oocyst #Adhesion #GPIanchor www.cell.com/trends/paras...

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I usually prefer wearing @mblscience.bsky.social BoP course T-shirts, but seeing a Hugo Boss sporozoite shirt, I could no resist. That Stefan had nearly the same left no doubt that the two projects would be funded 🙂

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Join the Biology of Parasitism (BoP) course at MBL Woods Hole for an unforgetttable summer of science and fun, meet wonderful teachers and make friends for life: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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Superb and authorative historical review by Julien Guizetti on imaging malaria parasites. From Laveran to live-cell STED in Journal of Microscopy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Happy 2025 from Heidelberg

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I always wanted to name a protein after a Greek goddess or nymph and here we go: journals.plos.org/plospathogen... Happy holidays everyone

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Exciting opportunity for students from Africa: a master program on infection biology in Lambarene, Gabon and Germany: uni-tuebingen.de/en/study/fin...

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Beautiful blendering of #Plasmodium sporozoites migrating in 3D. Thanks and congrats to Leon @lettermann.bsky.social for being included in this lovely calender from @dfgpublic.bsky.social. Happy to just receive renewal funding for this project within our network on Physics of Parasitism.

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Our new outreach movie without words in an attempt on being creative illustrating how pathogen exit can be blocked to stop diseases. Thanks to Matthias and Yvonne and to @spp2225.bsky.social @dfgpublic.bsky.social for funding

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End of year fireworks: the cover showing fully formed Plasmodium sporozoites in an oocyst by expansion microscopy accompanies our review on the functions of circumsporozoite protein; blue: anti-CSP antibody, magenta: DNA. Congrats Kevin and Maren for the beautiful image.

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Amazing friday: two paper revisions submitted and a €6 million grant banana found. Time for pizza.

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How come we know so little about a protein that is the basis for the currently available malaria vaccines? New review on the Plasmodium circumsporozoite protein, with Photini Sinnis and Mirko Singer out now: authors.elsevier.com/c/1k7sK5Eb1x...

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