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Bronze Medal CNRS

 

RITA BATISTA GOMES AnaAna Rita Gomes, a CNRS Research Associate at the Laboratory of Pathogens and Host Immunity in Montpellier, and former Postdoctoral fellow of the LabEx ParaFrap, has been awarded the prestigious CNRS Bronze Medal in 2023.

This esteemed recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to the field of Parasitology and her dedication to advancing our understanding of pathogens. This Bronze Medal, awarded by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), is highly esteemed within the scientific community. It aims to honor early-career researchers and serves as an encouragement from CNRS to continue well-established and fruitful research in their respective fields. Ana Rita's receipt of this medal highlights her significant impact and potential as a scientist.

Ana Rita Gomes' research utilizes omics approaches to explore DNA replication and cell cycle regulation in malaria-causing parasites. With a background in microbiology, she pursued her doctoral program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge (United Kingdom) under the supervision of Oliver Billker, where she studied the functional genetics of the malaria parasite (2010-2015). During this time, she developed large-scale reverse genetic screening technologies, paving the way for high-throughput malaria research. As a postdoc, she continued to develop this technology at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Imperial College London. In 2015, she relocated to Montpellier and initiated a new research line focusing on DNA biology in Plasmodium in Dr. Jose-Juan LOPEZ-RUBIO's team (ParaFrap fellowship). She was subsequently recruited by CNRS as a CRCN (Chargée de recherche de classe normale) at the end of December 2018, joining the LPHI unit in Montpellier. Her group was initially funded by a starting grant ANR JCJC (2020-2024) and i-SITE MUSE (2021-2023). Ana Rita is also the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2023.

By honoring Ana Rita Batista Gomes with the CNRS Bronze Medal, the scientific community not only recognizes her past achievements but also eagerly anticipates the discoveries to come in her promising career.

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Happy New Year 2024! To kick off this new scientific year, here is the ParaFrap webinar schedule.

Since January 2021, ParaFrap has been organizing a series of webinars. This monthly event, held every 2nd Thursday of the month, aims to strengthen cohesion within the consortium and share the latest advances in the Parasitology community.

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The team of Dr. Mohamed-Ali Hakimi, in collaboration with Isabelle Coppens (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA), has developed a new (epi)genetic method to produce in vitro Toxoplasma pre-gametes.

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Published in Nature : Ana Vera Antunes, Martina Shahinas, Christopher Swale, Dayana C. Farhat, Chandra Ramakrishnan, Christophe Bruley, Dominique Cannella, Marie G. Robert, Charlotte Corrao, Yohann Couté, Adrian B. Hehl, Alexandre Bougdour, Isabelle Coppens & Mohamed-Ali Hakimi (2023) In vitro production of cat-restricted Toxoplasma pre-sexual stages. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06821-y.

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Success for ParaFrap students at MPM2023 

Parafrap students won numerous awards at the MPM 2023, Woods Hole USA, 17-21 September 2023. 
A warm congratulations to all !

  • Parul Sharma (2nd year PhD under the supervision of Brice Rotureau in Philippe Bastin’s team, Paris) - Talk Award,
  • Sheena Dass (alumni, former Cyrille Botté PhD, Grenoble) - Honorable Mention Talk Award,
  • Mohammad El Kadri (2nd year PhD in Frédéric Bringaud’s lab Bordeaux) and Pratima Gurung (alumni, former Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio’s PhD, Montpellier) - Honorable Mention In-person Poster Awards

In addition, 3 other prizes were awarded to members of the ParaFrap labs

  • Martina Shahinas (Mohamed-Ali Hakimi Lab) and Parul Singh (Artur Scherf /Jessica Bryant Team) - Honorable Mention Talk Awards
  • Marta Mendonça Cova: (Maryse) - In-person Poster Award
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Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) within the OneHealthdrugs (CA21111) network
1st CALL for applications 2023
 

The 1st STSM Call of the Action CA2111 OneHealthdrugs is launched. Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) is for PhD students and postdocs, or young scientists, wishing to spend 3 months in a European or associated country, or in Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, Togo, ...). These grants (about 9 grants of 3000 euros) have to be spent before the end of August 2023.

Evaluation process: on a ”first come first served” basis.
Call closure: when all STSMs are granted/STSM budget is allocated.

NOTE: STSM must be concluded before 31/08/2023.

Each Application must be submitted form the Applicant’s user profile on the e-COST portal: www.cost.eu, and then : https://e-services.cost.eu/activity/grants

The documents that the Applicant must upload into the e-COST are:

  • STSM grant Application (based on the "STSM-application-template CA21111"; disregard the e-COST template)
  • Confirmation of the host on the agreement from the host institution in receiving the applicant
  • Other documents required by the Action [i.e. 1) Letter of support from the Home Institution; 2) CV; 3) Signed statement. The contents of the documents 1, 2 and 3 are detailed in pp6-7 of the "1stSTSM call for applications CA21111 - Guidelines"]

In attachment the Application Form template, Guidelines for this call and Userguide for applications into the e-COST portal. For inquiries, please refer to the Grant Award Coordinator, Dr. Elisabeth Davioud-Charvet (elisabeth.davioud (at) unistra.fr).

pdf1stSTSM_call_for_applications_CA21111_-_Guidelines.pdf

pdfGrant-Awarding-userguide_Nov2021.pdf

docxSTSM-application-template_CA21111.docx

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