Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
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Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
@yasmiinadrissi.bsky.social
PhD student at @FWO, @itmmalaria.bsky.social & @LMPH_UAntwerpen
Working with #Plasmodium #falciparum #gametocytes!
Reposted by Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
Host genetics affect #plasmodiumfalciparum #gametocytedevelopment.
Our new preprint shows that sexual conversion is higher in erythrocytes with #hemoglobin AS and AC.🦠🩸Check it out!

@itmantwerp.bsky.social, CRUN (Burkina Faso), @cortesmalaria.bsky.social & Guy Caljon's lab.
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
New preprint out! We made a #Plasmodium knowlesi A1-H.1 #transcriptome time course for asexual blood stages🩸. tinyurl.com/mwd9b8vx
👩‍💻Webtool to compare temporal expression to P. vivax: tinyurl.com/bdz2ndsj

@itmantwerp.bsky.social @eknuepfer.bsky.social @cortesmalaria.bsky.social
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Reposted by Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
📣📣See our new preprint in Biorxiv, in which we explore the role of the primary DNA sequence 🧬 in de novo heterochromatin formation and maintenance 🔍📊🧩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Heterochromatin de novo formation and maintenance in P. falciparum
In the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the expression of many genes is regulated by heterochromatin (HC) based on the histone mark tri-methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me3). HC assembly...
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Yasmina Drissi El Boukili
First post on bluesky. Here is a pretty #Plasmodium falciparum Schizont and #gametocyte stage 1 stained in green. Not a fan of staining IFAs but the images are worth the while. More coming up soon @itmantwerp.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM