BioMalPar XII: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite conference will address fundamental questions of the biology of the malaria parasite, its vector, and the disease that it causes, and will showcase the latest technological approaches. This will be the 12th BioMalPar conference at EMBL Heidelberg. The conference series has built on the success of the EU funded Networks of Excellence, EviMalaR and BioMalPar and has for the last decade brought together malaria researchers from across Europe with their colleagues and collaborators from around the world, to present and share recent groundbreaking findings on fundamental malaria research in an integrated and highly collaborative environment.