November 2020: I am updating this website. I realise as a lab we have more cats than lab members. Please identify below the cat of the truest Toxoplasma lover in the lab.
September 2020: Wei Lun Ng returns to Asia to take up a postdoc in Singapore. Good luck Wei Lun and we will miss you!
September 2020: Daniel Fisch becomes Dr Daniel Fisch by passing his viva with no corrections! Many thanks to Ali Hakimi and Paras Anand for examining and to Avinash Shenoy for co-supervising Daniel.
Summer 2020: Setting up the lab under Covid restrictions. (This was not a chapter in the “How to set up a lab manual”)
Lockdown 2020: We hire two new research technicians and one new postdoc! Welcome to the lab William, Imtiaz and Samuel!
May 2020: We are in lockdown. Daniel Fisch publishes a paper in Cell Reports. Congratulations Daniel!
March 2020: The Frickel lab has unpacked and about half the boxes and equipment and then… goes home….
February 2020: The Frickel lab leaves the Crick and moves to the University of Birmingham. Barbara Clough moves with us after >20 years at MRC/Crick. I’m putting this on my CV.
June/2019: Barbara Clough, Daniel Fisch, Nagisa Yoshida will travel to ToxoXV in Colombia! Looking forward to lots of great science!
June/2019: Congrats Daniel! New paper out in EMBO Journal! Great collaboration with Avinash Shenoy at Imperial college. Check out his website here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.shenoy
March/2019: Joseph Wright defends his thesis – congrats Joe!
September/2018: HRMAn goes public. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/408450, www.hrman.org
May/2018: We welcome the fourth Frickel lab baby: Leopold
April/2018: Asha Patel joins the Frickel lab as laboratory scientist. Asha has extensive experience with Leishmania and Plasmodium parasites. We are looking forward to working with her on Toxoplasma!
March/2018: Nagisa Yoshida and Daniel Fisch will present talks at WHIP in April. We are looking forward to sharing the latest unpublished Frickel lab progress! See you in the Hole…
February/2018: Robert Evans and Weilun Ng join the Frickel Lab as postdocs. Welcome to both, we are looking forward to exciting new projects involving human host control of Toxoplasma gondii! Stay tuned!
September/2017: Postdoc opportunity!
We are looking for a motivated, ambitious and collegial person interested in joining us as a postdoc to pursue projects centered around host-pathogen interaction in human stem cell derived macrophages. Prior exprience with stem cells or high throughput microscopy is required. Please contact Eva directly with your CV or with queries if you are interested.
August/2017: Daniel and Barbara contribute to WHIP 2018 Flyer! Great work!
August/2017: Another Post-doc position available in the Frickel lab!
We are looking for a motivated, ambitious and collegial person interested in joining us as a postdoc to pursue projects centered around host-pathogen interaction in human stem cell derived macrophages. Prior exprience with host-pathogen interaction studies, stem cells or high content imaging is required. Please contact Eva directly with your CV or with queries if you are interested.
July/2017: Our paper on TRIM21 during in vivo Toxoplasma infection is out in Scientific Reports! Congrats Clem! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05487-7
July/2017: Daniel Fisch is awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship! Congrats Daniel!
May/2017: Post-doc position available in the Frickel lab
We are looking for a motivated, ambitious and collegial person interested in joining us as a postdoc to pursue projects centered around host-pathogen interaction in human stem cell derived macrophages. Prior exprience with stem cells or high throughput microscopy is required. Please contact Eva directly with your CV or with queries if you are interested.
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