Dr Joanne Power
@hanniepower.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research scientist at the University of Glasgow Centre for #Parasitology.
10 yrs in #malaria transmission research! 🦟🔬🧪
From the Emerald Isle🇮🇪, working in bonnie Scotland 🏴
10 yrs in #malaria transmission research! 🦟🔬🧪
From the Emerald Isle🇮🇪, working in bonnie Scotland 🏴
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Dr Joanne Power
@hanniepower.bsky.social
· Sep 11
Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
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In case you missed it: last week, @novartis.bsky.social & MMV announced positive Phase 3 results for GanLum, a novel, non-artemisinin antimalarial. This milestone comes amid urgent calls to tackle emerging drug resistance. Read more in @npr.org: bit.ly/4oTKuVx
New malaria drug could be a life-saver as the standard drug shows signs of weakness
The best drug to fight malaria is facing increased resistance from the parasites it fights. Now there's an alternative in the pipeline and it looks promising.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In case you missed it: last week, @novartis.bsky.social & MMV announced positive Phase 3 results for GanLum, a novel, non-artemisinin antimalarial. This milestone comes amid urgent calls to tackle emerging drug resistance. Read more in @npr.org: bit.ly/4oTKuVx
Someone give the @pacbio.bsky.social marketing team all the awards! The first image here is the PacBio Vega (yes, on a bench- they can now fit on benchtops!) and the second 2 are PacBio Vega socks. How good are these? Like, the data I just got back is also spectacular, but look at these!!! #pacbio
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Someone give the @pacbio.bsky.social marketing team all the awards! The first image here is the PacBio Vega (yes, on a bench- they can now fit on benchtops!) and the second 2 are PacBio Vega socks. How good are these? Like, the data I just got back is also spectacular, but look at these!!! #pacbio
When your work has a Halloween event with art but you've been staring at UMAPs all day. #bioinformatics
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When your work has a Halloween event with art but you've been staring at UMAPs all day. #bioinformatics
Thank you so much to @striepenlab.bsky.social for continuing to run these free & fantastisch #Parasitology seminars! Students and ECRs- make sure you're signed up to get updates! What a great talk by Prof Manuel Llinás of @ciddpsu.bsky.social! Fascinating work on AP2-G differences in SEA & Africa!
🧬 #PennVet Global Parasitology Seminar
➡️ Exploring the Complexities of Sexual Development in Malaria Parasites
🗓️ 20 Oct 2025 | ⏰ 12 PM US ET
📍 Hybrid – Penn Vet, Hill 132 & Online
🔗 Join online: tinyurl.com/3metek98
➡️ Exploring the Complexities of Sexual Development in Malaria Parasites
🗓️ 20 Oct 2025 | ⏰ 12 PM US ET
📍 Hybrid – Penn Vet, Hill 132 & Online
🔗 Join online: tinyurl.com/3metek98
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thank you so much to @striepenlab.bsky.social for continuing to run these free & fantastisch #Parasitology seminars! Students and ECRs- make sure you're signed up to get updates! What a great talk by Prof Manuel Llinás of @ciddpsu.bsky.social! Fascinating work on AP2-G differences in SEA & Africa!
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Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️
A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria
A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria
Endogenous structure of antimalarial target PfATP4 reveals an apicomplexan-specific P-type ATPase modulator
Nature Communications - Here, the authors present the 3.7 Å cryoEM structure of native sodium efflux pump PfATP4 from Plasmodium falciparum, revealing a bound protein that they term...
rdcu.be
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️
A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria
A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria
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I regularly try to brush up on my #Bioinformatics and Bioinformaticians are genuinely funny people wherever I go! I love this Burrows-Wheeler explanation. I think my brain processes information this way though. It zips stuff. 😄
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I regularly try to brush up on my #Bioinformatics and Bioinformaticians are genuinely funny people wherever I go! I love this Burrows-Wheeler explanation. I think my brain processes information this way though. It zips stuff. 😄
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We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the HR link (elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...). Find out more about us in the link below.
The Matthews Lab | Biology
The Matthews Lab
biology.ed.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the HR link (elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...). Find out more about us in the link below.
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Great work by @ukhsa.bsky.social team on 4 yrs of invasive #mosquito surveillance in UK. Sporadic detection of Aedes albopictus on transport routes in England & one-off detection of aegypti at Heathrow don't confirm establishment, but show value of surveillance
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Invasive mosquito surveillance in the United Kingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus
Here, we provide an update on invasive mosquito surveillance activities coordinated by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) between May 2020 and November 2024. Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti are ...
journals.plos.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Great work by @ukhsa.bsky.social team on 4 yrs of invasive #mosquito surveillance in UK. Sporadic detection of Aedes albopictus on transport routes in England & one-off detection of aegypti at Heathrow don't confirm establishment, but show value of surveillance
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
Wow- proud of Ireland, but that's a very eye-opening map. Thinking especially of the journalists in Palestine and Sudan at the moment.
#pressfreedom
#pressfreedom
2025 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Estonia
3 Netherlands
4 Sweden
5 Finland
11 Germany
18 Belgium⬅️ born here
20 UK
21 Canada
25 France
27 S Africa
29 Australia
52 Ghana
57 US
58 Gambia
61 S Korea
63 Brazil
66 Japan
112 Israel
151 India
171 Russia
173 Vietnam ⬅️ I live here
178 China
rsf.org/en/index
1 Norway
2 Estonia
3 Netherlands
4 Sweden
5 Finland
11 Germany
18 Belgium⬅️ born here
20 UK
21 Canada
25 France
27 S Africa
29 Australia
52 Ghana
57 US
58 Gambia
61 S Korea
63 Brazil
66 Japan
112 Israel
151 India
171 Russia
173 Vietnam ⬅️ I live here
178 China
rsf.org/en/index
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Wow- proud of Ireland, but that's a very eye-opening map. Thinking especially of the journalists in Palestine and Sudan at the moment.
#pressfreedom
#pressfreedom
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
cleaning up our first batch of Keyence images, IMO you can't get a better test subject than a tingid
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
cleaning up our first batch of Keyence images, IMO you can't get a better test subject than a tingid
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism
Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism
Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Quackolini wants to delay Hep B shots until age 12. Problem: the danger is vertical transmission at birth, when 9 in 10 infections become lifelong. That’s not a health plan—it’s an epidemiology experiment with your child as the control group.
"Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted, no reason to give a baby hepatitis B. Wait until the baby is 12 years old and formed and give them hepatitis B."
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Quackolini wants to delay Hep B shots until age 12. Problem: the danger is vertical transmission at birth, when 9 in 10 infections become lifelong. That’s not a health plan—it’s an epidemiology experiment with your child as the control group.
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
The last time the administration recklessly hawked a drug as a cure-all for something it hadn’t been shown to do, numerous people taking HCQ lost access to their meds - and the HCQ harmed the Covid patients it was used on.
Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur
Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur
September 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The last time the administration recklessly hawked a drug as a cure-all for something it hadn’t been shown to do, numerous people taking HCQ lost access to their meds - and the HCQ harmed the Covid patients it was used on.
Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur
Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur
I don't know if they have a presence on Blue Sky, but I just want to remind people in Scotland that you can sign up for SHARE for free: www.registerforshare.org SHARE takes the excess blood from regular blood tests & uses it for research purposes. You can also sign up for further health studies. 👍🏻
SHARE | RegisterforSHARE
SHARE | RegisterforSHARE
www.registerforshare.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I don't know if they have a presence on Blue Sky, but I just want to remind people in Scotland that you can sign up for SHARE for free: www.registerforshare.org SHARE takes the excess blood from regular blood tests & uses it for research purposes. You can also sign up for further health studies. 👍🏻
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In 2wks, our #VectorsGlasgow team will do #GreatScottishRun for @malarianomoreuk.bsky.social They do crucial work to raise awareness & advocate for investment in #malaria control- never more needed with recent global health funding cuts
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- ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...
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- ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...
September 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In 2wks, our #VectorsGlasgow team will do #GreatScottishRun for @malarianomoreuk.bsky.social They do crucial work to raise awareness & advocate for investment in #malaria control- never more needed with recent global health funding cuts
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- ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...
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- ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...
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At LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED event experts discussed the threat of false or misleading health information
Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.
📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...
#PublicHealth
Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.
📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...
#PublicHealth
September 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
At LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED event experts discussed the threat of false or misleading health information
Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.
📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...
#PublicHealth
Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.
📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...
#PublicHealth
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world
Aedes aegypti further adapted to life around humans when it arrived in the Americas, study of hundreds of mosquito genomes reveals
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Dr Joanne Power
Hospitals ‘overflowing’ amid double outbreak of mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh
Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hospitals ‘overflowing’ amid double outbreak of mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh
Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...