Catarina A. Marques
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👩🔬Post-Doc at the @McCulloch_Group @WCIPGlasgow @UofGlasgow, DNA replication of Tryps & Leish 🧬 🔬 Sci-fi 👽 fan
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined August 2011
RT @jezielbqi: Pleased 2 share our new article: single-molecule replication mapping in Leishmania using DNAscent. We show widespread stoch….
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RT @LabWyllie: Delighted our latest paper is now published in Science Translational Medicine. Fantastic collab with @DrBhambra and his team….
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Quinazolines targeting Trypanosoma cruzi lysyl-tRNA synthetase show partial efficacy in a mouse model of acute Chagas disease.
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RT @JoanaRCF: Nice to have been involved in this study led by @MarketaNovotna6. Super elegant application of CRISPR precision editing!….
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Nature Communications - Transcription in trypanosomatids, such as Trypanosoma brucei, is predominantly polycistronic and involves unconventional RNA polymerase II promoters. This study uses...
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RT @goldenpipette: RA job open in Andrew Maclean's new lab at @edin_EID #parasitology #jobs @SPPIRITnetwork @BSPparasitology . https://t.co/….
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A research assistant position is available in the research group of Dr Andrew Maclean (Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh). We are looking for an enthusiastic...
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RT @rmc9z: Registration now open for the 2025 edition of MPM in Woods Hole. We hope you can attend! 👇.
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RT @ampliconX: Passionate about infectious diseases and brain organoids? We are hiring a Postdoc in our team!
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RT @ParasiteMatt: Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Ful….
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RT @JoanaRCF: So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypa….
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Antigenic variation is a sophisticated immune evasion strategy employed by many pathogens. Trypanosoma brucei expresses a single Variant-Surface-Glycoprotein (VSG) from a large genetic repertoire,...
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RT @KeithRMatthews: Please consider applying for this post doc position in our lab if you have excellent bioinformatics and wet lab skills,….
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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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RT @goldenpipette: Thrilled to share this new pre-print, led by @Goddard_P_ . If you have ever wanted to know "Where is the gut is the para….
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RT @Unique_charity: It's Undiagnosed Children’s Day! 🙌 🎈. Many families spend years searching for answers, living with the unknown, withou….
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RT @pogonogo: Seeking a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related fields to work on discovery o….
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PhD Project - Four year fully funded PhD studentship: Bioprospecting Marine Sponge Streptomyces for Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @AghabiDana: New preprint alert 🔔🎉 We are so happy to share that our latest work “ZFT is the major iron and zinc transporter in Toxoplas….
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Transition metals, such as iron and zinc, are indispensable trace elements for eukaryotic life, acting as co-factors in essential processes ranging from respiration and metabolism to DNA replication....
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RT @WeizmannScience: Are you a PhD graduate in the Life Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Math or Computer Science? Apply for th….
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RT @TDDeego: Exciting opportunity to join us as a PhD student and kickstart cryo-EM studies in our group 🔬🧬. Includes world class training….
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PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human Genetics, Genomics and Disease: Structures and mechanisms of genome replication at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @Filipa_Ferr: We are super excited about our lab's first manuscript & being selected for the cover of the issue! We found that when cloc….
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RT @Ariel_Lab: A great opportunity here 👇for people looking for a Post-Doc. Great group, great topic, great sceintific environment at a tru….
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RT @carlos_robello: 32 T2T!!!.Happy to share our preprint showing the molecular karyotype of #Trypanosomacruzi .@GonzaloGreif @fdiazviraque….
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Trypanosoma cruzi , the causative agent of Chagas disease, exhibits remarkable genomic plasticity and possesses an expanded genome rich in multigene families. However, its precise chromosomal...
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RT @JoanaRCF: Delighted to have been part of this great work driven by Marketa Novotna in the Horn lab, showing the power of precision edit….
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Transcription of protein coding genes in trypanosomatids is atypical and almost exclusively polycistronic. In Trypanosoma brucei , approximately 150 polycistrons, and 8000 genes, are constitutively...
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