This week we are sharing a video where our group leaders, Carlota Dobaño and @moncunill.bsky.social, explain our research on immune responses, vaccines and longterm impact of infections. It was filmed in our new lab space at the Barcelona Science Park, where we moved this September.
Such a great experience! 😊
1/ This week our research group made an important discovery: scientists look fantastic in Dutch academic togas 🎓✨ Our two PIs went to Leiden to take part in not one, but two PhD thesis defenses! This experience was filled with rich scientific discussions… and a definite Hogwarts-like atmosphere.
1/ Last week, @moncunill.bsky.social and Rebeca Santano attended the #LongCOVIDIntl in Boston, where they presented our work on antibody signatures and T-cell phenotypic differences between long COVID and recovered individuals, a work carried out in collaboration with IDIAPJGol.
1/ This week, part of our team attended the CIBER-BBN-INFEC Annual Meeting in Sevilla.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820
👋 Hi Bluesky!
We are the Malaria Immunology Lab at @isglobal.org
Our research focuses on understanding immune responses not only to malaria but also to COVID19, long COVID, helminth infections and other infectious diseases 🦟💉🦠🪱
Follow us for updates on our projects, publications and lab life!
This week our PhD student Silvia Ruiz Rius led our Journal Club session with an excellent presentation on recent findings about Tfh cells and their associations with antibody responses in malaria.
💬 What papers or topics have sparked interesting conversations in your journal clubs lately?
Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold.
Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Greetings from the #WORMVACS annual meeting in Siena! 👋
🪱💉We are discussing the past year’s progress in the search for a #helminth vaccine and agreeing on the next steps in tackling #NeglectedTropicalDiseases.
Learn more ➡️ wormvacs.org
#HaDEA @ec.europa.eu @isglobal.org
Longitudinal cohort studies are essential to understand diseases, identify risk factors and guide #PublicHealth action.
During #COVID19, #ENDVOCproject united 33 cohorts from 24 countries to study emerging variants and the burden of #LongCovid.
@horizoneu.bsky.social
Pre-print alert 🚨
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?
The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Just hot out of the press! Rory developed a 3D microvessel model that recapitulates physiological pericyte coverage. We found that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt the barrier and halt ang-1 secretion. The activator AKB-9778 could rescue barrier disruption! Congratulations, Rory!
#Noma has been reported for the first time in Mozambique, revealing an incidence similar to Ethiopia & Nigeria.
Despite being preventable and treatable, this devastating disease still affects children living in extreme poverty and remains overlooked by health systems.
La ferroviària basca CAF, una de les empreses "responsables de sostenir" un govern genocida que apareixen documentades en un nou informe d'Amnistia Internacional
Els científics Europeus hem de demanar que Israel sigui expulsat amb efecte immediat de l’Àrea de Recerca Europea
L'opinió de l'investigador Javier del Campo
La comunitat científica ha de sumar-se a la pressió a Israel per aconseguir aturar el genocidi a Gaza.
Mantenir-se neutral és ser-ne còmplice.
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Feu una ullada a l’opinió que em publiquen les companyes de @ladirecta.bsky.social 👇
directa.cat/ciencia-cont...
Explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social offers this nice example of measles vaccines in @plosglobalpublichealth.org article [Artwork by Fahim Akbar]
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
La Plataforma de Resposta Immunitària i Biomarcadors d’#ISGlobal rep la certificació ISO 9001:2015.
Un reconeixement internacional a la qualitat i eficiència en l’àmbit de la recerca biomèdica.
We just published a piece about the participation of people deprived of liberty in #tuberculosis vaccine trials. Should they be protected from research, or through research?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social @isglobal.org @mtbi.bsky.social
We are travelling back in time! So tragic!!
As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do
Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid
@themrise.bsky.social
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
🆕 Out now in JEM (@jeukmicro.bsky.social)! Using rrn gene and organelle phylogenies from recovered cysts, we describe 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘢, an apicomplexan parasite found in the ovaries of the Japanese sea cucumber 🥚 🥒 🇯🇵 dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #ProtistsOnSky
#OPINIÓ | Catalunya, un refugi per a la investigació acadèmica només d’alguns països https://directa.cat/catalunya-un-refugi-per-a-la-investigacio-academica-nomes-dalguns-paisos/ ✍️ Un text de Javier del Campo, Investigador de l’Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC – Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Cuando surgen nuevas amenazas sanitarias, la #inmunología ofrece respuestas que salvan vidas. ¿Estamos escuchando a la ciencia?
En el #DíaMundialDeLaInmunización, Carlota Dobaño, @moncunill.bsky.social y @sarukhan.bsky.social hablan de ello en @lavanguardia.com:
www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025042...
Figure showing simulated vaccine efficacy estimates based on the month of vaccination completion using data from the highly seasonal site of Nanoro (Burkina Faso). Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
Non-biological factors linked to disease transmission can affect vaccine efficacy estimated in clinical trials.
In @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social, authors explore the impact of disease transmission on #malaria vaccine efficacy estimates: tinyurl.com/2dpke6ma #WorldMalariaDay
Since 2000, 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted.
It’s #WorldMalariaDay
The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000.
The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled.
bit.ly/MalariaDay2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Vaccines have saved 154 million lives globally since the launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization by the World Health Organization in 1974 and are one of the great triumphs of medicine”
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
www.science.org/content/arti...
Feliç #SantJordi! In Catalunya, today we celebrate love, literature and dragons, exchanging books and roses🐉 🌹 📖 . Honoring the dragon of the legend of Sant Jordi, today’s #Midweekmicrobe is Dracomyxa pallida, a giant ameboid freshwater foraminifer #ProtistsOnSky
📷 Wylezich et al. 2014
