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Professor of Parasite Biology and Dean of Bioscience Partnerships, University of Edinburgh; views my own

Edinburgh, UK
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Keith Matthews
2 months
Update: contract duration extended to 2029 (i.e. now a ~almost 4 year contract duration). Please apply by 6th June.
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Keith Matthews
2 months
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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Keith Matthews
3 months
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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Keith Matthews
5 months
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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6 months
RT @goldenpipette: Dream job alert! @SPPIRITnetwork @BSPparasitology Postdoc job with the amazing Joana at @BiologyatYork . Amazing mentor,….
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6 months
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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7 months
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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Keith Matthews
7 months
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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Keith Matthews
8 months
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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Keith Matthews
8 months
I’m now findable on @keithrmatthews.bsky.social.
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Keith Matthews
8 months
I’ve made it to 50000 unread emails 🏅🏅🏅
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Keith Matthews
11 months
RT @YBRI_UoY: #JobAlert Dr Mathieu Cayla is seeking a postdoc to characterise the signalling pathways during the lifecycle differentiations….
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Keith Matthews
1 year
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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Keith Matthews
1 year
Been doing some real science today
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Keith Matthews
1 year
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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Keith Matthews
1 year
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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