The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) holds a biannual symposium devoted to the kinetoplastids, and seeks to cover the full gamut of research into these important organisms, and alternates with the Woods Hole Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology meeting that serves a similar community. While normally embedded within the main BSP Spring meeting, on several occasions the symposium has enjoyed the opportunity of being hosted on mainland Europe. In 2020, the BSP was fortunate to spend some time in Granada in Spain, where a superb meeting with excellent science in a spectacular setting was overshadowed by news of an emerging novel coronavirus. In this editorial, we hope to have captured some of that excellent science and to highlight aspects of the many great papers and reviews in this special issue, as well as provide a few images from the meeting, which we hope for this who attended will bring back some fond memories.

CNRS Microbiology Fundamental and Pathogenicity UMR 5234 F 33000Bordeaux France

Department of Biology York Biomedical Research Institute University of York YO10 5DD UK

Institute of Parasitology Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences 37005Ceske Budejovice Czech Republic

Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina Lopez Neyra Parque Tecnologico de Ciencias de la Salud 18016Granada Spain

School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK

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Čermáková P, Maďarová A, Baráth P, Bellová J, Yurchenko V and Horváth A (2021) Differences in mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase activities in trypanosomatids. Parasitology 148, 1161–1170. PubMed PMC

Ellis J, Barratt J, Kaufer A, Pearn L, Armstrong B, Johnson M, Park Y, Downey L, Cao M, Neill L, Lee R, Ellis B, Tyler K, Lun Z-R and Stark D (2021) A new subspecies of Trypanosoma cyclops found in the Australian terrestrial leech Chtonobdella bilineata. Parasitology 148, 1125–1136. PubMed PMC

Erben E, Leiss K, Liu B, Gil D, Helbig C and Clayton C (2021) Insights into the functions and RNA binding of Trypanosoma brucei ZC3H22, RBP9 and DRBD7. Parasitology 148, 1186–1195. PubMed PMC

Faria J (2021) A nuclear enterprise: zooming in on nuclear organization and gene expression control in the African trypanosome. Parasitology 148, 1237–1253. PubMed PMC

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Koeller C, Smith T, Gulick A and Bangs J (2020) P67: a cryptic lysosomal hydrolase in Trypanosoma brucei? Parasitology 148, 1271–1276. PubMed PMC

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Larson S, Carter M and Hovel-Miner G (2021) Effects of trypanocidal drugs on DNA synthesis: new insights into melarsoprol growth inhibition. Parasitology 148, 1143–1150. PubMed PMC

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Poláková E, Záhonová K, Albanaz A, Butenko A, Lukeš J and Yurchenko V (2021) Diverse telomeres in trypanosomatids. Parasitology 148, 1254–1270. PubMed PMC

Quintana JF and Field MC (2021) Evolution, function and roles in drug sensitivity of trypanosome aquaglyceroporins. Parasitology 148, 1137–1142. PubMed PMC

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