Dr Megan Sloan

  • Research Fellow (Parasitology)

Publications

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Number of items: 12.

2025

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Scott, Adam, Aghabi, Dana, Mrvova, Lucia and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2025) Iron-mediated post-transcriptional regulation in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens, 21(2), e1012857. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012857) (PMID:39899594) (PMCID:PMC11801735)

2024

Maclean, Andrew E., Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Renaud, Eléa A., Argyle, Blythe E., Lewis, William H., Ovciarikova, Jana, Demolombe, Vincent, Waller, Ross F., Besteiro, Sébastien and Sheiner, Lilach ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-2307 (2024) The Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial transporter ABCB7L is essential for the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur cluster proteins and cytosolic translation. mBio, (doi: 10.1128/mbio.00872-24) (PMID:39207139) (PMCID:PMC11481526) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Aghabi, Dana, Sloan, Megan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Gill, Grace, Hartmann, Elena, Antipova, Olga, Dou, Zhicheng, Guerra, Alfredo J., Carruthers, Vern B. and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2023) The vacuolar iron transporter mediates iron detoxification in Toxoplasma gondii. Nature Communications, 14, 3659. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39436-y) (PMID:37339985) (PMCID:PMC10281983)

2021

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Aghabi, Dana and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2021) Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites. Microbiology, 167(12), 001114. (doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001114) (PMID:34898419) (PMCID:PMC7612242)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Sadlova, Jovana, Lestinova, Tereza, Sanders, Mandy J., Cotton, James A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5475-3583, Volf, Petr and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2021) The Phlebotomus papatasi systemic transcriptional response to trypanosomatid-contaminated blood does not differ from the non-infected blood meal. Parasites and Vectors, 14, 15. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04498-0) (PMID:33407867) (PMCID:PMC7789365)

2020

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2020) Tools for the genetic manipulation of Herpetomonas muscarum. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(5), pp. 1613-1616. (doi: 10.1534/g3.120.401048) (PMID:32205316) (PMCID:PMC7202032)

2019

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Brooks, Karen, Otto, Thomas D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Sanders, Mandy J., Cotton, James A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5475-3583 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2019) Transcriptional and genomic parallels between the monoxenous parasite Herpetomonas muscarum and Leishmania. PLoS Genetics, 15(11), e1008452. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008452) (PMID:31710597) (PMCID:PMC6872171)

Wang, Lihui, Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2019) Intestinal NF-κB and STAT signalling is important for uptake and clearance in a Drosophila-Herpetomonas interaction model. PLoS Genetics, 15(3), e1007931. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007931) (PMID:30822306) (PMCID:PMC6415867)

2017

Alharbi, N. K. et al. (2017) ChAdOx1 and MVA based vaccine candidates against MERS-CoV elicit neutralising antibodies and cellular immune responses in mice. Vaccine, 35(30), pp. 3780-3788. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.05.032) (PMID:28579232) (PMCID:PMC5516308)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2017) Immunology of insect vectors: midgut interactions of sandflies and tsetse with kinetoplastid parasites as a paradigm for establishing infection. In: Ligoxygakis, Petros (ed.) Insect Immunity. Series: Advances in insect physiology (52). Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 231-248. ISBN 9780128117750 (doi: 10.1016/bs.aiip.2017.04.003)

2015

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Reaves, Barbara J., Maclean, Mary J., Storey, Bob E. and Wolstenholme, Adrian J. (2015) Expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits from parasitic nematodes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 204(1), pp. 44-50. (doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2015.12.006) (PMID:26747395) (PMCID:PMC4729587)

2014

Thomas, Benjamin, Sloan, Megan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Wolstenholme, Adrian and Kner, Peter (2014) 120nm resolution in thick samples with structured illumination and adaptive optics. In: MEMS Adaptive Optics VIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 01-06 Feb 2014, 89780H. ISBN 9780819498915 (doi: 10.1117/12.2040931)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 04:03:06 2025 BST.
Number of items: 12.

Articles

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Scott, Adam, Aghabi, Dana, Mrvova, Lucia and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2025) Iron-mediated post-transcriptional regulation in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens, 21(2), e1012857. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012857) (PMID:39899594) (PMCID:PMC11801735)

Maclean, Andrew E., Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Renaud, Eléa A., Argyle, Blythe E., Lewis, William H., Ovciarikova, Jana, Demolombe, Vincent, Waller, Ross F., Besteiro, Sébastien and Sheiner, Lilach ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-2307 (2024) The Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial transporter ABCB7L is essential for the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur cluster proteins and cytosolic translation. mBio, (doi: 10.1128/mbio.00872-24) (PMID:39207139) (PMCID:PMC11481526) (Early Online Publication)

Aghabi, Dana, Sloan, Megan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Gill, Grace, Hartmann, Elena, Antipova, Olga, Dou, Zhicheng, Guerra, Alfredo J., Carruthers, Vern B. and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2023) The vacuolar iron transporter mediates iron detoxification in Toxoplasma gondii. Nature Communications, 14, 3659. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39436-y) (PMID:37339985) (PMCID:PMC10281983)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Aghabi, Dana and Harding, Clare R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-0374 (2021) Orchestrating a heist: uptake and storage of metals by apicomplexan parasites. Microbiology, 167(12), 001114. (doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001114) (PMID:34898419) (PMCID:PMC7612242)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Sadlova, Jovana, Lestinova, Tereza, Sanders, Mandy J., Cotton, James A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5475-3583, Volf, Petr and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2021) The Phlebotomus papatasi systemic transcriptional response to trypanosomatid-contaminated blood does not differ from the non-infected blood meal. Parasites and Vectors, 14, 15. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04498-0) (PMID:33407867) (PMCID:PMC7789365)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2020) Tools for the genetic manipulation of Herpetomonas muscarum. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(5), pp. 1613-1616. (doi: 10.1534/g3.120.401048) (PMID:32205316) (PMCID:PMC7202032)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Brooks, Karen, Otto, Thomas D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404, Sanders, Mandy J., Cotton, James A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5475-3583 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2019) Transcriptional and genomic parallels between the monoxenous parasite Herpetomonas muscarum and Leishmania. PLoS Genetics, 15(11), e1008452. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008452) (PMID:31710597) (PMCID:PMC6872171)

Wang, Lihui, Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2019) Intestinal NF-κB and STAT signalling is important for uptake and clearance in a Drosophila-Herpetomonas interaction model. PLoS Genetics, 15(3), e1007931. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007931) (PMID:30822306) (PMCID:PMC6415867)

Alharbi, N. K. et al. (2017) ChAdOx1 and MVA based vaccine candidates against MERS-CoV elicit neutralising antibodies and cellular immune responses in mice. Vaccine, 35(30), pp. 3780-3788. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.05.032) (PMID:28579232) (PMCID:PMC5516308)

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Reaves, Barbara J., Maclean, Mary J., Storey, Bob E. and Wolstenholme, Adrian J. (2015) Expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits from parasitic nematodes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 204(1), pp. 44-50. (doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2015.12.006) (PMID:26747395) (PMCID:PMC4729587)

Book Sections

Sloan, Megan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069 and Ligoxygakis, Petros (2017) Immunology of insect vectors: midgut interactions of sandflies and tsetse with kinetoplastid parasites as a paradigm for establishing infection. In: Ligoxygakis, Petros (ed.) Insect Immunity. Series: Advances in insect physiology (52). Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 231-248. ISBN 9780128117750 (doi: 10.1016/bs.aiip.2017.04.003)

Conference Proceedings

Thomas, Benjamin, Sloan, Megan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-4069, Wolstenholme, Adrian and Kner, Peter (2014) 120nm resolution in thick samples with structured illumination and adaptive optics. In: MEMS Adaptive Optics VIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 01-06 Feb 2014, 89780H. ISBN 9780819498915 (doi: 10.1117/12.2040931)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 04:03:06 2025 BST.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • An iron lens for translational regulation in Toxoplasma gondii
    Wellcome Trust
    2022 - 2027