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@statnews Hopefully they learn more about #brain-eating amoeba! Some of the top 5 #deadliest diseases which can be treated successfully if caught or suspected early. Kerala is a prime example of this. Any meningitis case which they see they treat for PAM (Naegleria) while Dx comes back!

Medical schools must now prepare tomorrow’s doctors for yesterday’s diseases. trib.al/CUVxRjY

Brain-eating amoeba: Who is most often infected? @parasite_doc @universityofga rochesterfirst.com/news/national-…

Brain-eating amoebas are rare. But hot weather increases the risk @parasite_doc @universityofga @UGA_IDIS washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/…

Virulence of Naegleria fowleri isolates varies significantly in the mouse model of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@StephenTristram @ParasiteGal A classic.

@ParasiteGal Toxoplasma. Extra points if you understand the movie reference.

The #Parasite case 776 is now up: brain biopsy from a man with untreated HIV. Specimen appeared necrotic and bloody. Show are Giemsa-stained touch preps. ID? Answer later this week!

@AgriExperts @icarindia @irri @RiceIcar @AgriGoI @Ale_Raza6 @Gurjeet_AgSci @PIB_India @PotliNews Again, surname, not field of study. Get it right.

ICAR has developed two genome-edited rice varieties, marking the first products in the country to utilize #genome #editing technology. Hon'able MoA&FW Sh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan shall announce this landmark achievement to the nation on 04.05.2025 at 11.00 AM Image is symbolic

@medicinAlicia @Manetsch_Lab @NU_Chemistry Congratulations! Wishing you all the best in the next adventure.

belated, but I did it!! I defended!!! I'm the luckiest gal in the world to have all the love and support that I do in the @Manetsch_Lab and @NU_Chemistry ♥️🖤 excited to do some cool science before jetting off to my super secret next step, coming to a tweet near you eventually

Couldn’t resist adding #Mario and #Toad for #MAR10Day for a class today! Even if they thought it was cringe, I loved it! 😂 #nerd #parasites @LifeAtPurdue #boilerup

@MotherOfPhage All I can think about if you use mutatoes…..

I feel like we need to rename a lot of things so it’s obvious what they are for certain people. Like transgenic mice will now be mutatoes.

Hey @Apple, how do you know that this email accelerates the heart rate whenever we receive a notification? 😅😂 @NIH #Academia #grant #Boilerup #RareDisease 🤞🤞.

🚨New publication alert🚨 Happy to share that my first Ph.D. student, Chenyang Lu, had her first first-authored publication from our lab accepted in @ACSPublications, Journal of Natural Products! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jn… #drugdiscovery #amoeba #naturalproducts #peptides

@medicinAlicia There’s some lurkers, like amoeba. 😅😂

no one's here anymore right?? So I can just scream into the void????

@MotherOfPhage Maybe some amoeba 👀👀

I took some water from here to find some #phage. Maybe the water is too clean.

@CTEGD @parasite_doc @jcklab Congratulations! 🍾

Dennis Kyle and Jessica Kissinger were honored during the Georgia/Georgia Tech game Friday night for receiving the Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award this year. @parasite_doc @jcklab

Shreyes Kanumuru, a talented undergraduate researcher, in the Rice Research Group presented his UG research at @LifeAtPurdue Fall Expo today! He found many of the recommended therapies are ineffective against several strains of Balamuthia and that newer drugs are urgently needed!

In two weeks, @veupathdb is hosting a Protozoan Researcher Community Meeting to discuss where we stand, share future plans, and answer questions. We hope you will be there! Please register for a zoom link. upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

@reenwilson @KatrinaVelle Happy to jump on a video call and show you the videos which we’ve produced in the lab. I believe it is alleviating the initial symptoms due to the encystment, but then causing more relapse cases later on when physicians think they have treated the disease and take off drugs.

@RiceAmoebaLab @KatrinaVelle Wow - so possibly voriconazole may be harmful because the amoebae are encysting?? That would explain longer, more protracted disease, no??

For night 21 of #31nightsofhalloween #microscreepy here are some amoebae that are minding their own business until a drug is added (color change) and they attack each other! Okay, okay, they’re not really attacking, but they do tend to clump and crawl around each other!

@reenwilson @KatrinaVelle It can be traumatic for a patient seeing how amoeba behave, but these experiments help us researchers understand these organisms better. e.g. by using microscopy, I believe I know why we see more relapsing cases when AK patients are treated with azoles, it causes encystation.

@RiceAmoebaLab @KatrinaVelle It’s all quite horrific 😱😱😱 when you see the things that infected your eye up close!!

@ADTsaousis Thank you! Hope to see you at the Protistology-UK meeting in Liverpool next year! You’ll get to hear more about it then 🤞.

@RiceAmoebaLab This is awesome! Hope to find a suitable drug!

Today we received ~160,000 drugs to screen against #braineatingamoeba. This will be the worlds largest drug screen against these #neglected diseases! This will take us ~2 months to process 🥲. 🤞 we identify some more useful scaffolds to optimize in #drugs !