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International graduate students in energy and climate at Harvard or anywhere where the government is impeding your ability to pursue your education, my door is open to listen and brainstorm options for you to continue your studies. csamaras@cmu.edu
I was lucky enough to see Dr Hamey’s presentation and it was definitely a highlight of the conference, such interesting work!
Me standing at a lectern on a black stage with title presentation slide behind.
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to present some of my PhD work yesterday at #AUSoMicS2025
My supervisor thinks I’m obsessed with Alba proteins and to be honest, he’s probably not wrong. It was a joy to talk about them uninterrupted for 15-minutes 😂
#ausomics #Science #parasitology #malaria
A box containing a mass spec Lego set.
Okay, but this mass spec Lego I got from Thermo today 🥰
#AUSoMicS #ausomics2025 #science #proteomics #massspectrometry
Please consider. An excellent cause to commemorate a great guy.
Exciting work at EMBL around malaria, including our lab!
Thrilled to share my first paper, now out in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com! Huge thanks to my amazing supervisor @hakimi.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to this work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our recent study found human antibodies developed against proteins in the saliva of malaria transmitting mosquitoes can serve as markers to estimate how often people are bitten. Read why this is important, particularly today on World Malaria Day: www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...
Since 2000, 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted.
It’s #WorldMalariaDay
The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000.
The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled.
bit.ly/MalariaDay2025
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Wait, am I doing autism wrong? Am I not supposed to be doing a PhD? Or holding a job? Or paying taxes? Goddammit.
I completely agree with you 🙌
Look, I think we all know that, come September, he’s just going to find a way to say it’s vaccines. Any legitimate evidence to the contrary be damned.
Freshly ruptured parasites are one of my favourite things to look at. They’re always so pretty 🥰
It’s a vibe is what it is.
Two light coloured pigeons sitting in a flower box hanging on a balcony railing.
Two light coloured pigeons sitting on top of an outside air conditioning unit.
It is quite funny to observe 😂 but I suppose it serves its purpose, because the ones in nest two have grown into beautiful pigeons and both fledged this past week 😊
Barbie-like doll on pink background. Doll has brown wavy hair, glasses, green dress and white lab coat. Doll is holding a microscope and Petri dish. Accessories pictured are a pink handbag, pink sunglasses, book on blood stage malaria, and binoculars.
Highly recommend asking ChatGPT to generate an image of you as a doll. I am not disappointed.
#science #parasites #malaria #parasitology
6:30 am on the first day of semester and I've already had someone ask me for directions. Which is why I keep a small stash of campus maps for when the Undergrads come back. I recommend.
Two small white pigeon eggs in the middle of a best made of small twigs and leaves. Nest is inside a planter box.
Balcony pigeon nest #2 now has two eggs so parents have started incubating and we'll have more baby pigeons in ~18 days.
For Valentines Day, my partner bought me a little camera for one of the pigeon nests on our balcony (yes, there are now 2 nests).
"scientists are cold and unfeeling by custom" I took some shrimp into the lab for live photography, but I could not find a single female in one particular pond. Felt bad for the three males just sitting in there with nothing, so I put in some females from another pond down the road for them to court
Solving 25 years of frustration, Daniel Abbühl managed to tag trypanosome tubulin and to express it in an inducible manner, hence revealing flagellum assembly! A tour-de-force!
Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
More recent work from the McCulloch lab! Check out Jeziel's @jezieldamasceno.bsky.social recent paper on R-loops, DNA replication and genomic stability in Leishmania major www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @naturecomms.bsky.social @rmc9z.bsky.social @marquescata.bsky.social
A mostly greyish coloured pigeon sitting atop a nest of twigs.
A mostly greyish coloured pigeon sitting atop a nest of twigs.
Two small white eggs in a twig nest. Black circles indicate small cracks in the eggs.
Very excited to announce that I shall once again be the proud landlord of 2 baby pigeons!
I had calculated that they would hatchbon Wed/Thurs but they've started pipping a couple days early, perhaps due to the ungodly hot weather?
#BirdSky
Two oval shaped pink and purple malaria parasites cosily sharing a red blood cell. Several uninfected red blood cells off to the side.
Me, everytime I see two parasites sharing an erythrocyte: Awww, look, they're cuddling!
#Plasmodium #malaria #SciSky #Science
South Australia's draft Biodiversity Bill is out for consultation until 18th Feb. It replaces key legislation, so is a fundamental change in how SA's nature is protected - or not. It's a big bill (153 pages). So if making a submision, start reading early!
yoursay.sa.gov.au/draft-biodiv... 🌏
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