MIMS Group Leader at Umeå University. Exploring malaria parasite - host interactions.
Joined June 2009
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ellen bushell retweeted
13 May 2025
Thanks to all lab heads and group leaders who have filled out and paid invoices for a @veupathdb @fungidb @VectorBase subscription! Your contributions keep our data resources open access.
If you haven’t done so already, this is an URGENT need! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/…
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ellen bushell retweeted
Together with @mims_umea and the @scilifelab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), @umeauniversity is looking for an excellent young life science or computational researcher to become Group Leader.
Apply before 11 May 2025.
scilifelab.se/career/group-l…
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ellen bushell retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Our popular, encyclopedic GENE PAGES now have a facelift! ✨Search for your favorite gene on @veupathdb and take a look at the new and improved gene summary (top), contents menu (left) and main navigation pane on the gene page.
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ellen bushell retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Are you based in South America and work on helminths?
Join me & a great group of instructors on the Helminth Bioinformatics course in Montevideo during 18–24 May!
We'll cover expenses, you just need to come, interact, and learn.
Please share & apply!
coursesandconferences.wellco…
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ellen bushell retweeted
28 Jan 2025
We have a position available for a research assistant to join our team to test our rationally designed malaria vaccines. A fun job with a lovely team of people and an important project funded by the Gates Foundation. Come and join us!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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23 Jan 2025
We are hiring a postdoc to exploit our new PbHiT CRISPR/Cas9 system to adapt perturb-seq methodology to couple single cell RNA seq with CRISPR screens. Application closes 31 Jan, please apply below. academic.oup.com/nar/article…
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ellen bushell retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Our @Marti_Paoletta scalable CRISPR-Cas9 system (PbHiT) in Plasmodium berghei is now published in Nucleic Acids Research 🥂
doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf005
(Detailed overview in my previous 🧵 below)
@Bushell_Lab @umeauniversity @mims_umea @womeninmalaria
24 Apr 2024
FINALLY ONLINE 🥳 In our @Marti_Paoletta pre-print (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…) we present a scalable CRISPR system in Plasmodium berghei called PbHiT, providing detailed protocols and construct designs for anyone to use! 🧵@Bushell_Lab @umeauniversity @mims_umea @womeninmalaria
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ellen bushell retweeted
📢 Call open: Group Leader in Molecular Infection Medicine
The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, is looking for an excellent young researcher to become Group Leader for innovative research in molecular infection medicine. Visit: umu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…
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ellen bushell retweeted
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (@mims_umea) is hiring!
We are seeking: 1️⃣ Group Leader in Molecular Infection Medicine 2️⃣ Project Administrator 3️⃣ PhD Student 4️⃣ Postdoctoral Researchers
🔗 See details and apply: tinyurl.com/yc6mztf2
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ellen bushell retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Save The Date : The Next EMBO Workshop « Host-parasite relationship: from mechanisms to control strategies », organized by @ParaFrap, will be held October 5-8, 2025 @EMBOevents #Science #Parasite #France
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ellen bushell retweeted
23 Nov 2024
Targeted CRISPR Screens Reveal Genes Essential for Cryptosporidium Survival in the Host Intestine (full thread in the other place!) @_Lucy_Watson
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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22 Nov 2024
Science in the North pt 1: Good morning winter and hello snow! @mims_umea @umeauniversity
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13 Nov 2024
Such a super effort by @clairepsayers et al, combining scale and highly qualitative assays! The neat way of scaling up screening for male gamete motility defects by catching the swimmers is my fave. Congrats to everyone involved 🥳
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3 Oct 2024
Fantastic opportunity to work on a cool project with a terrific group leader in a beautiful part of the world. Don’t walk, run…
3 Oct 2024
📢Our team is seeking 2 postdocs to join a @ERC_Research funded project on cell cycle regulation of #malaria parasites!
#ParasitologyJobs #Academicjobs #Postdocposition
Deadline: 1/11; Start date: 1/1/2025 (Flexible)
Details here👇
lphi.umontpellier.fr/researc…
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3 Oct 2024
Thank you for the incredible commitment and effort by @veupathdb team to protect and bring back VEuPathDB so swiftly! Suspect you already know how much it means to all of us who rely on it.
2 Oct 2024
Welcome back! VEuPathDB resources are back online today! We will continue to provide bioinformatics services under a new organizational structure. Read more here: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/…
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ellen bushell retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at VEuPathDB.org to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future
🔗veupathdb.org/
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ellen bushell retweeted
18 Jun 2024
We have a fully-funded postdoc position in the
@cmholab in #NYC to study how #membraneproteins drive host-pathogen interactions in #malaria parasites using #CryoEM and #CryoET!🦠❄️🔬Email chi-min.ho@columbia.edu with your CV to apply!
tinyurl.com/5n96rkfm #teamtomo
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ellen bushell retweeted
3 Jun 2024
A CRISPR homing screen finds a chloroquine resistance transporter-like protein of the Plasmodium oocyst essential for mosquito transmission of malaria dlvr.it/T7ll5p
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30 Apr 2024
Postdoc project aimed at improving CRISPR scalability and targeting in Plasmodium berghei, with a chance to spend time in @HaapaniemiLab CRISPR lab and in our malaria lab. Information and links to apply below, or contact me or Emma for more information.
The NORPOD collaborative postdoc program by @NordicEMBL awaits applications from future postdocs! Apply before 31 May, and join one of the 4 Nordic EMBL nodes, where @mims_umea is the Swedish node. MIMS is involved in 2 projects (nr 1 and 3) with @bo_schroeder & @Bushell_Lab!
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