Parasitology researcher and science enthusiast. Postdoc Kafsack lab Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City
Joined February 2016
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Kit Kennedy retweeted
It's here! Introducing the #MammothMeatball, the world's first meat made from extinct animal protein 🦣
With @WunThompson, we're starting a conversation on what the future of food looks like (and from our view, it's pretty exciting) 🍽
Watch now at mammothmeatball.com/
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Take a look through @metrotunnelvic's Parkville Station.
Better yet, fly though.
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It was a tough but exciting ride. This is a digest from #elife on the final paper of my postdoc. Hope it will make you interested in our original paper. #malaria with @fra_florini @DeitschKirk Solving a malaria mystery elifesciences.org/digests/83…
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We are going.
For the first time, the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.
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Elon Musk, the free-market entrepreneur savior who was supposed to innovate us out of climate change, is now telling people to vote Republican.
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We have some ✨📢BIG NEWS📢✨ to share, we have officially opened our very first factory (creatively named Factory 1) at our Sydney, Australia HQ.
A few key facts on Factory 1 🧵👇🏾
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You can’t eat cell-based meat anywhere except Singapore, but that hasn’t stopped start-up Vow opening a huge factory in Sydney. bit.ly/3rm3CPV
Nutritious and delicious
Costasiella kuroshimae (leaf sheep), is a sea slug performing 'kleptoplasty' = retaining the chloroplasts from the algae it eats, so that they can be used for photosynthesis [read more: buff.ly/2t9sPys] [📹️Catrin Pichler: buff.ly/3iASjgI]
teapaw.org/entobird/status/130848…
Wow!
Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one
[full video, from "Ants! Natures Secret Power": buff.ly/2ICATyB]
teapaw.org/Rainmaker1973e/status/…
Kit Kennedy retweeted
Using MRA to clear mycoplasma from cultures of apicomplexans because all other products kill the apicoplast? Our summer student Darlene Malave-Ramos from @uprm & @Molecular_Kit found you can safely use Sparfloxacin, which is 20,000x cheaper. tinyurl.com/2p8e9yed
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Today marks 25 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in parasites of humans and animals (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of lives.
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Me and Stu @sturalph posted a pre-print on bioRxiv today! It's about mRNA decay in the malaria parasite. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Can you teach an old drug new tricks? We love that azithromycin kills the malaria parasite apicoplast, but it acts too slowly to be a great antimalarial. @amyburns39 & @Wilson_LabUofA found tweeks that make it work both 'fast' and 'slow', so yes you can.
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
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Trump just signed an executive order blocking all new temporary #immigration visas, including #H1B and #J1. This should be of great concern to all US scientists who are no longer able to hire international students and postdocs. #AcademicTwitter
washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
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Hayley Buchanan and @McfaddenGeoff have a cunning plan to circumvent resistance to antimalarial drugs targeting the apicoplast
Hayley Buchanan from @McfaddenGeoff Lab tells us how to lay a "resistance trap" for parasites. Nice to see some work on mozzie stages... and use of emojis in slides! 😏💪#malariamelb19
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Congratulations @Molecular_Kit and @emcrisafulli on a lovely story and journal Cover @TrendsParasitol cell.com/trends/parasitology…
