ghostpathogen.bsky.social
Used to be funny, now i make parasites kiss. Incoming PI at GIMM, working on Cryptosporidiosis: @epi-api-lab.bsky.social (Postdoc at The Francis Crick Institute, UK; PhD at USyd, Australia) Host-pathogen interactions, cytoskeleton, immunity, community.
👤 Joined on 01 December 2023
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@ghostpathogen.bsky.socialI really love being a scientist and doing benchwork. To me, it's an artisan craft - working with your hands, techniques honed with years of practice and intuition, training apprentices, creating new and interesting things. I hope that that type of science will endure
Show Post1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky
Show PostToday marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.
Show PostPlease check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development.
Show Post#WorldHepatitisSummit poster - our team shared #CommunityEngagement experience from our 'EVOLVE' #HBV project in #SouthAfrica to enhance interventions for #hepatitis #elimination. 🧪 👏 #WHS2026 #NoHep #MedSky #LiverSky @ahri-news.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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