Dr Ellen Knuepfer
eknuepfer.bsky.social
Dr Ellen Knuepfer
@eknuepfer.bsky.social
Molecular Parasitologist and vaccinologist, Royal Veterinary College, London
Here is hoping that been given a new opportunity, finally, the courage is there within the directive of the Royal Society to do the right thing.
Royal Society's governing council will meet on 1 October to consider expelling Elon Musk.

Adrian Smith, its president, taking a new stance in light of Musk address to far-right rally in London last week.

@francesjones.bsky.social with the latest.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk - Research Professional News
Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by Dr Ellen Knuepfer
A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Happy to share that the #KnuepferLab has initiated change in culture at the #RoyalVeterinaryCollege as the first lab to participate in the lab sustainability challenge, LEAF. Onwards and upwards!
July 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The essential host genome for Cryptosporidium survival exposes metabolic dependencies that can be leveraged for treatment
An arrayed microscopy-based CRISPR screen revealed host genes affecting multiple infection phenotypes of the intracellular parasite Cryptosporidium. Hits in the host cholesterol biosynthesis pathway a...
www.cell.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Fantastic discovery. Beautiful work! Well done the whole international team. @parasitematt.bsky.social
When are you coming to the RVC to give a talk now @sam-chamberlain.bsky.social ?
Extremely happy to share the first paper of my postdoc work with @parasitematt.

It is the product of a great collaboration with Akihito Sakoguchi, Hisashi Arase and Shiroh Iwanaga at Osaka University as well as Marcus Widdess and Mike Dustin here in Oxford.

rdcu.be/eqx2J

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June 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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GIMM PhD Programme now open. 17 PhD positions and a few more to come.

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GIMM PhD Studentships 2025 – GIMMGIMM PhD Studentships 2025 – GIMM
Thank you very much for your generous donation and for sharing your testimony.We hope to more people feel inspired to join this mission of discovery and innovation!
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June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us!
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
June 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Nawsad presented our structure-guided design of RH5top, our latest blood stage-malaria vaccine immunogen, in talk and poster at the Malaria Gordon conference. The culmination of many studies from the lab and collaborators and doing well in pre-clinical testing! More soon.
June 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
This project will seek to understand the basis of increased virulence after long term coinfection by a combination of genomic, transcriptomic and laboratory manipulation of the selected parasite lines...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The KnuepferLab is hiring!

Our team is looking for a highly motivated, experienced molecular parasitologist to expand our group as a postdoctoral researcher at the RVC.

Follow either link below for more information on the project and the job offer:
lnkd.in/eprgmaE9
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY962/p...
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Fossils of Mesozoic monotremes are VERY rare so this is a big deal. I'm not aware of other Mesozoic monotreme postcrania. Just jaws/?skull bits and teeth.
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Crick researchers have uncovered how the intestinal Cryptosporidium parasite uses a protein to alter its host’s gut environment, enabling the parasite to survive and replicate.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
Researchers uncover how intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium alters host cells
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected intestinal cells, altering the gut environment and enabling the parasite to surv...
www.crick.ac.uk
April 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Keep VEuPathDB open-access to all by subscribing today! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥
Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5)

Please share!
April 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“If countries like the US neglect the research base, that would be bad for science, bad for the countries who have thrived on scientific progress, both socially and economically, and bad for the world.”

Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society

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Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How disappointing! Again a large and prestigious institution crumbles when it needed to step up and honour its values.
March 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The papers from Jenna Oberstaller and Brendan Elsworth use the piggy-bac transposing system to work out which of P. knowlesi’s 5000 genes are essential for blood stage growth - providing a treasure trove of data for the field to now exploit!
February 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM