Molecular Parasitology

News overview

All news at a glance.

25/07/2025 Image-activated cell sorting
It was a pleasure to contribute to this review highlighting the power of image activated cell sorting.
14/07/2025 Next generation genetic screens in kinetoplastids
The state of the art and future applications of image-based and single-cell sequencing based genetic screens in kinetoplastids.
05/05/2025 Yan-Ting joins us as a Research Technician
13/03/2025 Genomic Determinants of Antigen Expression Hierarchy in African Trypanosomes
A highly sensitive single-cell RNA sequencing approach sheds light on the VSG-selection mechanisms in Trypanosoma brucei.
23/12/2024 Micro-C reveals T. brucei genome organisation at high resolution
Inter-chromosomal transcription hubs shape the 3D genome architecture of African trypanosomes
14/12/2024 RNA processing and stability contribute to gene expression
We implemented SLAM-seq and TT-seq in African trypanosomes to study RNA maturation
30/10/2024 Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for trypanosomes
Sleeping sickness: pathogens play hide-and-seek. Great collaboration with the Mugnier lab
21/03/2024 Smoother: on-the-fly processing of interactome data using prefix sums
Check out our latest manuscript to learn how Hi-C and RADICL-seq data can be processed and visualized using an interactive interface
31/07/2023 Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites.
Our review describes the importance of 3D genome architecture in the regulation of antigen expression.
23/07/2022 Vanessa promotes science at Marienplatz
01/07/2022 Esteban joins our group as a technician
01/07/2022 DFG funding to study antigenic variation in Uganda and Kenya
Application for PhD position opens soon.
23/06/2022 Keisuke Goda receives award from Humboldt foundation to work with us at LMU
21/04/2022 Negin joins our group as a technician
17/03/2022 ERC consolidator grant awarded to Siegel lab
03/01/2022 Rifat joins the lab to study H3.V and H4.V
16/09/2021 Our most complete and most accurate 427 Lister diploid genome assembly
The peer-reviewed version is now online
07/06/2021 We are excited to have Markus join Lab as bioinformatician
01/06/2021 The CRC Chromatin Dynamics received funding for another 4 years
We still have one open PhD student position - apply now
11/01/2021 Spatial integration of transcription and splicing in a dedicated compartment sustains monogenic antigen expression
Our new manuscript has been published by Nature Microbiology.
23/11/2020 Vanessa is awarded a PhD fellowship
01/10/2020 Prateek joins our group for his PhD
01/09/2020 Zhibek is joining the Siegel lab
01/05/2020 Anna is joining our group
06/04/2020 Kirsty wins LMU postdoc fellowship
27/03/2020 T. brucei has more than 150 histone modifications
28/01/2020 Can RNA-processing hotspots serve as post-transcriptional enhancers?
Our new manuscript is now on bioRxiv

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