Beth Bakewell-Smith
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Beth Bakewell-Smith
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Structural biology of human-infective trypanosomes. Higgins Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Kavli INsD, University of Oxford.
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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.

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June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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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Pleased to share our review on two key families of proteins in the 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 arsenal: pfEMP1 and RIFINs. Both of these fascinating families facilitate immune evasion and survival within the human host during a malaria infection.⁣

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March 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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🧵 🙌🏾 Congratulations #Guinea for eliminating sleeping sickness (gambiense form) as a public health problem in the country!
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January 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks, particularly if you are fascinated by trypanosomes.
January 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Kuang-Ting! Expert on the gametocyte surface and structural characteriser of transmission blocking malaria vaccine immunogens. I’m a proud supervisor today!
December 13, 2024 at 5:04 PM