Erica Martins Duarte

Toxo Meeting 18 registration will open soon!

Open position for a PhD student in my lab at UFMG.

SAVE THE DATES: June 14-17 2026, at Hotel Atlântico Buzios, Armação de Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!

I'm editing a new special issue for @Micro_MDPI Original and review papers focused on parasitic infections are welcome

Our newest work is out! Investigation of Virulence-Related Markers in Atypical Strains of Toxoplasma gondii from Brazil mdpi.com/3159994 #mdpimicroorganisms via @Micro_MDPI

For more information follow @toxo18brasil

It is confirmed! Next Toxo Meeting will be in Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Almost arriving in Berlin for Toxo Meeting 2024.

Se os 3 mil bilionários do planeta pagassem 2% de impostos sobre o rendimento das suas fortunas, poderíamos gerar recursos suficientes para alimentar as 340 milhões de pessoas que, segundo a FAO, enfrentam insegurança alimentar severa na África. Muitos países em desenvolvimento já formularam políticas eficazes para erradicar a fome e a pobreza. E nosso objetivo, no @g20org, é mobilizar recursos para ampliá-las e adaptá-las a outras realidades. Por isso, convidamos os países africanos a se somarem à nossa Aliança Global de Combate à Fome e à Pobreza, que estará aberta a adesões a partir de julho. #CooperaçãoBrasilBenim

Two ancient membrane pores mediate mitochondrial-nucleus membrane contact sites, say Jana Ovciarikova (@JanaOvciarikova), Lilach Sheiner @sheinerlab @UofGSii & colleagues: hubs.la/Q02n_1jJ0 @shikha_tweets @AliceLacombe2 @UofG_Microscopy @EricaMaDu @MGissot @AndrewEMaclean

Our first stab at finding routes of communication between the #nucleus and the #mitochondrion in #Toxoplasma discovered #contacts between the mitochondrion and the nuclear pore. doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20…

Nuclear-mitochondrion contacts functions are not known. Cell adaptation to stress(1) and for drug resistance in #malaria(2) was proposed. But we are still exploring what is the role of the contact we just reported - stay tuned! 1 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 2 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34044591/

I'm really happy to have collaborated in this beautiful work.

A study in @JCellBiol of how the critical #nucleus & #mitochondrion interact, performed in the protozoan parasite #Toxoplasma, reveals a contact mediated by abundant & ubiquitous complexes in their membranes #TOM #NuclearPore hubs.la/Q02nL0m90 @sheinerlab @UofGSii @MGissot

A study of how the critical #nucleus and #mitochondrion interact, performed in the protozoan parasite #Toxoplasma, reveals a contact mediated by abundant & ubiquitous complexes in their membranes. #TOM #NuclearPore hubs.la/Q02nKSMQ0 @sheinerlab @UofGSii @MGissot

📚Findings in the fight against Toxoplasma gondii! 💊 Explore the Medicines for Malaria Venture Pandemic Box In Vitro Screening, identifying compounds highly active against the Tachyzoite Stage. Read the full paper here: mdpi.com/2414-6366/8/12…

Congratulations 🥳 for @alati_dr first paper, and thank you to @martorellibd @HarryDeKoning2 for inviting us to join this nice collaboration frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Wow

@SheinerLab @AndrewEMaclean 👏👏👏

Mariana Silva, @AndrewEMaclean and colleagues show that a critical metabolic enzyme (#ComplexII) of the parasites causing #toxoplasmosis has many more parts than its human parallel - another nail in the parasites are "reduced" / 'simple" coffin. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…