Ana Matias
@anaamatias.bsky.social
PhD student investigating Toxoplasma 🦠 in Treeck’s Lab. If you can’t find me in the lab I’ll probably be home reading a book 📚
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#NewResearch
The Toxoplasma gondii effector TgROP1 mimics host factors to bind VAPA/B, thereby establishing parasite–host ER contact sites.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Toxoplasma gondii effector TgROP1 mimics host factors to bind VAPA/B, thereby establishing parasite–host ER contact sites.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Toxoplasma effector TgROP1 establishes membrane contact sites with the endoplasmic reticulum during infection - Nature Microbiology
The Toxoplasma gondii effector TgROP1 mimics host factors to bind VAPA/B, thereby establishing parasite–host ER contact sites.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#NewResearch
The Toxoplasma gondii effector TgROP1 mimics host factors to bind VAPA/B, thereby establishing parasite–host ER contact sites.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Toxoplasma gondii effector TgROP1 mimics host factors to bind VAPA/B, thereby establishing parasite–host ER contact sites.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Had an amazing time at #ParaFrap!
Learning about parasites is always guaranteed fun ☺️ #EMBOWorkshop #IlesdesEmbiez
Learning about parasites is always guaranteed fun ☺️ #EMBOWorkshop #IlesdesEmbiez
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Had an amazing time at #ParaFrap!
Learning about parasites is always guaranteed fun ☺️ #EMBOWorkshop #IlesdesEmbiez
Learning about parasites is always guaranteed fun ☺️ #EMBOWorkshop #IlesdesEmbiez
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The #EMBOWorkshop : Host–parasite relationship has come to a close! Thank you to all speakers, participants, and organizers for four inspiring days of science, discussion, and human connection. Until next time! 🧫✨
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The #EMBOWorkshop : Host–parasite relationship has come to a close! Thank you to all speakers, participants, and organizers for four inspiring days of science, discussion, and human connection. Until next time! 🧫✨
Congratulations, Bishara!! Super cool
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 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations, Bishara!! Super cool
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Researchers from the Crick and @gimmfoundation.bsky.social have identified a family of proteins found in the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite that could be promising targets for future malaria drugs which are less susceptible to resistance.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite P...
www.crick.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Researchers from the Crick and @gimmfoundation.bsky.social have identified a family of proteins found in the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite that could be promising targets for future malaria drugs which are less susceptible to resistance.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
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🎉 Finally online 🎉 GRA12, the first identified common virulence factor across Toxoplasma strains and murine subspecies! Check this improved manuscript after reviewers’ helpful suggestions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GRA12 is a common virulence factor across Toxoplasma gondii strains and mouse subspecies - Nature Communications
CRISPR screens reveal Toxoplasma’s GRA12 as a strain- and mouse species-transcendent virulence factor. GRA12 protects parasites from IFNγ-activated macrophage clearance and parasitophorous vacuole col...
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🎉 Finally online 🎉 GRA12, the first identified common virulence factor across Toxoplasma strains and murine subspecies! Check this improved manuscript after reviewers’ helpful suggestions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️
This image shows a section of a human trunk organoid, precursor to the spine and nervous system, grown from human stem cells. The green spot is a notochord, a rod-shaped tissue that acts as a kind of GPS system.
Credit: Tiago Rito.
This image shows a section of a human trunk organoid, precursor to the spine and nervous system, grown from human stem cells. The green spot is a notochord, a rod-shaped tissue that acts as a kind of GPS system.
Credit: Tiago Rito.
February 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️
This image shows a section of a human trunk organoid, precursor to the spine and nervous system, grown from human stem cells. The green spot is a notochord, a rod-shaped tissue that acts as a kind of GPS system.
Credit: Tiago Rito.
This image shows a section of a human trunk organoid, precursor to the spine and nervous system, grown from human stem cells. The green spot is a notochord, a rod-shaped tissue that acts as a kind of GPS system.
Credit: Tiago Rito.
Reposted by Ana Matias
Rumors are true! I joined the very welcoming @jennyrohn.bsky.social lab at UCL to dive into 3D organoids, persistent bugs and GAG layer! Exciting times ahead ✨
February 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Rumors are true! I joined the very welcoming @jennyrohn.bsky.social lab at UCL to dive into 3D organoids, persistent bugs and GAG layer! Exciting times ahead ✨
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This image shows cultured human cells called fibroblasts in purple, infected with a kind of parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.
#microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social
#microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This image shows cultured human cells called fibroblasts in purple, infected with a kind of parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.
#microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social
#microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: @simon-butterworth.bsky.social