2025
December 2025 - Congratulations to Cagla for winning the prize for best talk at the SSTMP student meeting!
September 2025 - Welcome to the lab, Fiona and Roem!
July 2025 - Welcome to the lab, Tamara!
July 2025 - new preprint on bioRxiv. Identification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand flies. Read it here.
July 2025 - Paper published: Leishmania mexicana pathogenicity requires flagellar assembly but not motility. Read it here.
June 2025 - Congratulations to Sophia for winning the prize for best conference talk at the UK Cilia Meeting in London!
May 2025 - Congratulations to Sandro for completing his Master’s thesis!
March 2025 - Paper published: Evolutionary adaptations of doublet microtubules in trypanosomatid parasites. Read it here.
January 2025 - Paper published! TransLeish: Identification of membrane transporters essential for survival of intracellular Leishmania parasites in a systematic gene deletion screen. Read it here.
2024
November 2024 - Andreia is leaving the lab to start her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at Charles University Prague and the Swiss TPH.
October 2024 - Welcome to the lab, Himaja
October 2024 - We are excited to start a new SNSF-funded project on the regulatory mechanisms of ciliary motility
February 2024 - Welcome to the new BSc students Romina, Nicolas and Dana
2023
Summer 2023 - Welcome to new lab members: Çağla, Sidonie, Sandro and Roman
January 2023 - Welcome to the lab, Ruth Etzensperger!
2022
December 2022 - Huge congratulations to Sophia Fochler for passing her DPhil viva!
November 2022 - Now also @GluenzLab@mstdn.science
03/10/22 - Welcome to the lab, Ana Raquel Pereira!
August 2022 - The Gluenz Lab is moving from Glasgow to Bern!
08/04/22 - Congratulations to Andreia for winning a poster prize at the 3rd UK workshop on membrane proteins / European SMALP!
27/01/22 - Saying goodbye to James Smith who is leaving to start a PhD in Australia.
2021
December 21 - Welcoming George to the lab for his MSci research project.
05/07/21 - We look forward to supporting the MSc research projects of Leah, Binglei and Xiaojun over the summer.
21/06/21 - Jeziel Damasceno and Matthew Young have joined the LeishGEM team.
06/05/21 - Watch our new animation showing why we are interested in Leishmania’s membrane transporters.
25/03/21 - Apply here for a Postdoc or a Research Assistant position (closed 22nd April).
We are recruiting - check out the LeishGEM website for more information.
12/02/21 - Congratulations to Andreia for gaining SULSA ECR Development funding
February 2021 - We have a new website!