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.

Open to all, these webinars allow ParaFrap members to present their research activities, and participants to ask questions.

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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.

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.

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

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).

1stSTSM_call_for_applications_CA21111_-_Guidelines.pdf

Grant-Awarding-userguide_Nov2021.pdf

STSM-application-template_CA21111.docx