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Official Twitter account of Edkins lab and the Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Unit (BioBRU) at Rhodes University, RSA. Views personal not Rhodes Uni.
Grahamstown, South Africa
Joined May 2015
📢 Join our next @CoRE_GHA webinar session w/ talks from Adrienne Edkins @Rhodes_Uni 🇿🇦 & Prince Makay from University of Kinshasa👇 📅 Monday, November 10, 2025 ⏰ 12:00 - 13:00 SAST | 11:00-12 CET 👉 Read more & Register to attend: https://t.co/c7o2PxcWAL
#EqualFooting
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📢 Join our next @CoRE_GHA webinar session w/ talks from Volker Thiel @unibern 🇨🇭& Tendai Muronzi @Rhodes_Uni 🇿🇦👇 📅 Monday, October 13, 2025 ⏰ 12:00 - 13:00 CEST | SAT 👉 Register: https://t.co/LOfbFixiTI
#EqualFooting #malaria #vaccins
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📣The @CoRE_GHA Career Opportunity Announcement – Issue #8 ➡️ live! 🔍 6 exciting opportunities for African & European researchers. Don’t miss out – your next big move could be just a click away! 👀 https://t.co/OzPnbTQ5cE
#Fellowships #Conferences #Awards
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First of many! Thanks for all your hard work Jennifer.
My first, first author research article is out now! With @kmeluni , we explore how post translational modifications affect Hsp90 inhibitor binding, then use AI to predict these PTMs across Hsp90. A cool project important for further development of these anti-cancer drugs!
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📣Are you a researcher or PhD student from a @CoRE_GHA affiliated institution? Want to improve your profile?🎆 The GHA- SciEx exchange program offers a unique opportunity to grow both personally & professionally. 👇🏻7 reasons to apply👇🏾 ➡️ https://t.co/5i58c52bS4 Thx @unibern🏋🏾♂️
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📣The @CoRE_GHA Career Opportunities – Issue #6 is now live! 🔍 Six exciting new career opportunities in Africa or Europe. Don’t miss out – your next big move could be just a click away! 👀 https://t.co/tVskXfoggL
#Fellowships #Training #Conferences #AfricaEuropeCore
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What a surreal feeling seeing my first preprint manuscript 🤩🥳 Please go have a look at our “hot off the press” preprint from the Birkholtz Lab where we validate a PfArk1 tool compound and use it to investigate the biological function of PfArk1 during multiple parasite stages
Targeting Aurora kinases as essential cell cycle regulators to deliver multi-stage antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum https://t.co/xjDqiNrnPI bioRxivpreprint
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Please come join us for a wonderful evening of celebrating a wonderful academic!
Save the date! Join us as we celebrate the work of Professor Candice Christie at her Inaugural Lecture this July RSVP: events@ru.ac.za
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Apply for this rare opportunity to be a #SANTHE Fellow. DEADLINE 31 JULY. Appy here: https://t.co/wpUC889s9j
@AHRI_News @UKZNCHS @BotswanaHarvard @KEMRI_Wellcome @EmoryRZHRG @CWRUSOM @cidrzinfo @SciforAfrica @GileadSciences @Aidsfonds
@wellcometrust #EmpoweringAfricanScience
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📣Call for Applications: Short-Term Research Visits 📌For junior & early-career researchers > genomic of #RareDiseases, familial syndromes, or #infectious diseases w/in @CoRE_GHA institutions. 📅 2025 spots still available! 🧏🏽♀️Discover 👇🏽 https://t.co/5i58c52bS4 Thx @unibern 🏋🏾♂️
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Congratulations to @DuhitaMirikar for presenting her work on multisite Hsp70 phosphorylation fine tuning the DNA replication stress response in yeast! 🔥@UNCCBiology @unccharlotte
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Snippet 3/10: If you are interested in applying for Doctoral funding, below is some need-to-know information. Please do not try to create an application or submit queries without reading all of the funding call documents in detail here: https://t.co/zXpmo2owRk
#NRFfunding2026
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We are thrilled to welcome @alessiociulli to the #ChemBioParis2025 conference in Paris Oct 6-9, 2025. Sign up at https://t.co/vetw6zheVc—early bird discounts available until Jun 10 for members of @ChemBioSociety, @EuChemS, @EuOpenscreen, @SCF_ChemBio. #ChemBioEvent
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Congratulations to my students, Harrison Banda (right) and Mukuka Mukuka (left), for graduating with an MSc in Chemistry degree and a BSc in Chemistry degree respectively. These guys are behind the pioneering drug discovery work we continue to do in Zambia.
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I am glad to be part of this effort as we pioneer drug discovery in Zambia. https://t.co/Ovk54xsAc3
h3dfoundation.org
PRESS RELEASE – RAFIKI, an African and European research consortium, which includes the H3D Foundation has received €1.5 million from the European Union and additional resources from the Swiss...
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❗REMINDER❗ Applications for our AI2050 AI/ML Tools for Drug Discovery workshop in Nairobi, Kenya close on Friday (21 March).
📢Calling all East African scientists with an interest in AI/ML📢 Apply for our 4-day, fully supported AI2050 AI/ML Tools for Drug Discovery workshop. Presented in collaboration with Ersilia Open Source, it will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, 8-11 July 2025.
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Join us for a hybrid webinar on Thursday, 20 March at 2 PM (SAST). Dr Tim Wells, CSO at @MedsforMalaria will present on new medicines for malaria control and elimination. In Cape Town? Join us in-person at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at @UCTIDM . https://t.co/gN5mpChJdl
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Join us for our next webinar on Wednesday, 19 March at 12PM. Prof Grace Mugumbate from @MidlandsState will be presenting on in silico approaches to drug design. Register and join here: https://t.co/tBI9WLkSl7
#drugdiscovery #drugdevelopment #webinar
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Proud to share our recent review: "Mechanisms and applications of mitochondrial chaperone inhibitors" https://t.co/1LXFtUyU7g written by @mochigianna!
tandfonline.com
Heat shock protein (Hsp) molecular chaperones regulate the folding, stabilisation, and activation of dependent proteins, known as clients. By regulating the activity of several hundred client prote...
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Building on the great work of @ttukiainen, we find two additional completely skewed females in @GTExPortal. Using this unique genetic data we generate "A whole-organism landscape of X-inactivation in humans"! https://t.co/AfzG4tSYzM
@eLife. Great detective work by @BGylemo 🥳🙏
elifesciences.org
Genetic analyses of rare non-mosaic females define X-inactivation status for 380 genes and uncover widespread X-chromosome skewing in the general population, providing insights into sex-biased traits...
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