Keith Matthews
@KeithRMatthews
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Professor of Parasite Biology and Dean of Bioscience Partnerships, University of Edinburgh; views my own
Edinburgh, UK
Joined July 2013
Update: contract duration extended to 2029 (i.e. now a ~almost 4 year contract duration). Please apply by 6th June.
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Please consider applying for this post doc position in our lab if you have excellent bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!.
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This project will seek to understand the basis of increased virulence after long term coinfection by a combination of genomic, transcriptomic and laboratory manipulation of the selected parasite...
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Exploring the chromatin proteome of Trypanosoma brucei repetitive elements (telomeres, centromeres, 70bp repeats, 177bp repeats) using TALEs. Another great collaboration with @Allshire_Lab .
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We've previously looked at the developmental biology of trypanosome infections in mice, but parastaemias are unnaturally high in mice compared to cattle. Read what happens in cattle when blood parasitaemias are low and so quorum sensing may be limited. .
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Tsetse-transmitted Trypanosoma parasites infect a wide host range and cause Human African Trypanosomiasis and Animal African Trypanosomosis in sub-Saharan Africa. The primary hosts of Trypanosoma...
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RT @goldenpipette: Dream job alert! @SPPIRITnetwork @BSPparasitology Postdoc job with the amazing Joana at @BiologyatYork . Amazing mentor,….
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RT @ParasiteMatt: It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks fo….
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SPPIRIT: a network connecting Scottish early-career researchers in parasitology: Trends in Parasitology
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The Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation, and Training (SPPIRIT), founded in 2021, connects parasitology researchers in Scotland with a focus on early-career researchers (ECRs)....
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RT @PeteSteks: It's been an honour to take over from LSTM and keep this tsetse colony going at @roslininstitute. The @DrLiamMorrison group….
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RT @SBSatEd: Great to see this new work published from @GuyOldrieve and @KeithRMatthews @edin_eid showing how the parasites that cause slee….
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Discover how non-tsetse transmitted trypanosomes lose the ability to make stumpy forms (and adapt to the monomorphic life style) and so can spread outside Africa. Read it via the link available via @keithrmatthews@bsky.social.
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Well done to all involved! “Matched with the colourful and comedically timed lighting designed by Rebecca Matthews.” #prouddad
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Them Is Brothers Comedy presents ‘A Dame of Two Halves!‘, a rip-roaring two-act adventure following two sister dames in Panto Land. Presented at Capital Theatre’s The Studio, this show was written …
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When I said someone in my lab was in our culture hood my daughter thought it was a science equivalent of the ‘neighbourhood’. We were cool for a very brief period. #gangstalab.
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Mechanisms of life cycle simplification in African trypanosomes A huge effort from @GuyOldrieve exploring how monomorphic trypanosomes can escape dependence on tsetse for their transmission and what it tells us about mechanisms of stumpy formation.
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African trypanosomes are important parasites in sub-Saharan Africa that undergo a quorum-sensing dependent development to morphologically stumpy forms in mammalian hosts to favour disease transmiss...
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RT @BastinLab_Paris: Exciting 3-year post-doctoral position open in the group of Brice Rotureau @institutpasteur in collaboration with @Glo….
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