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Paula MacGregor

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I am a @BBSRC David Phillips Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer. My group studies the molecular basis of host-parasite interactions in African trypanosomes.

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Joined November 2017
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To all Research Groups/Departments in the Downing Site/Town Centre: The Clinical School have requested donations of any FACE MASKS that might be available. If you have any spares, perhaps in cupboards or next to balances, please could you hands these in at BioPath Stores (1/n)
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Vaccine-preventable diseases include: Cervical cancer Cholera Diphtheria Hep B Influenza Japanese encephalitis Measles Meningitis Mumps Pertussis Pneumonia Polio Rabies Rotavirus Rubella Tetanus Typhoid Varicella Yellow Fever #VaccinesWork!
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Don't forget, Professor Vish Nene from the @ILRI (pictured), Nairobi, will be speaking on vaccine development research for livestock diseases this afternoon, Weds 10th, at 4pm in the Sanger Building Lecture Theatre - all welcome! @GlobalFood_Camb
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A little behind the scenes photo from our recent Away Days at @MadingleyHall. Aren't our Research Group Leaders a photogenic bunch?! Check out our website to find out what they're all researching: bioc.cam.ac.uk/research
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@wellcometrust8 Mar 2019
𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 was a real giant of genetics. She discovered the delightfully-named phenomenon of 'jumping genes', whereby DNA sequences physically shift around in the genome, creating genetic mutations. #IWD2019
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Alice McDowell is a PhD student in the @MacGregor_Lab studying surface proteins of African trypanosomes! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience #scicomm
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Next in our celebration of the amazing women in our Department is Nicola Moloney, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the @MacGregor_Lab! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience #scicomm @nicoloney
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Siegel Lab@siegel_lab22 Nov 2018
Please RT. We are looking to hire a postdoc interested in antigen variation, #single_cell biology, #chromatin or #3Dgenome architecture, go.nature.com/2AeGDwy. For our recent publications: bit.ly/2TAw2DJ, bit.ly/2qZrOs7, bit.ly/2TAsjpR @parasitesrule
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KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya is advertising a two-year post-doctoral social scientist post. For more information and/or to apply, visit careers.kemri-wellcome.org/c…. Deadline 23rd January 2018.
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PhD project – Cardiff University. 'Cryptosporidium movement in water: impact of eutrophication and climate change on the zoonotic disease agent.' Part of GW4 FRESH Centre for Doctoral Training. See bsp.uk.net/jobs. Closing date 15/02/18.
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Check out the flyer for the year's BSP Spring Meeting! Please post to your departments, and register for the event: bsp.uk.net/2016/10/04/bsp-sp…
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#wtccghr Mark Carrington from Cambridge Dept of Biochemistry talks about his research collaborations with Theresa Manful Gwira of the University of Ghana, to better understand trypanomiasis infection (sleeping sickness) in cattle in Ghana.
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BSP has received a request for environmental parasitologists - can anyone help a TV documentary crew to analyse a sewer 'fatberg' for evidence of parasites?
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#ICYMI Professor Richard Farndale was in the @guardian newspaper yesterday discussing the stem cell approach to replace heart transplants theguardian.com/lifeandstyle… #stemcells #Transplant

Change of heart: can we do better for heart patients than a transplant?

Fifty years after the first heart transplant, the operation remains very expensive with mixed outcomes. A new approach focuses on repair instead of replace

theguardian.com
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Want to attend a conference? Apply for our General Travel Grants by 1 Jan & get £500 to support your trip abroad ow.ly/FLWw30f7dAJ
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Today's the @CamInfectDis Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting of Minds, with talks from our own Dr Mark Carrington (10:10am) and Dr Martin Welch (1:30pm) 😀 It looks like a great programme! infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk/… #cidminds17 #infectiousdiseases #annualmeeting
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We're very pleased to announce that Professor Steve Oliver is to be presented with the @GeneticsGSA Yeast Genetics Meeting's Lifetime Achievement Award! bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/award-pr… 🏆🎉#Yeast18 #LifetimeAchievementAward #CelebrationTime
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In the latest #PLOSBiology, Peter Hotez writes about 'The poverty-related neglected diseases: Why basic research matters' dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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Which #finalfive UK species get their genome sequenced? You decide! #Vote in the @sangerinstitute #25genomes project 25genomes.imascientist.org.u…
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