Job Lopez

@BStevensonLab @AlexKneubehl Thanks again, Brian. Here’s a picture I took.

Anyone have any recommendations for free online course(s) or textbooks/reviews that give a good overview of disease ecology?

@Rojelio @BCM_TropMed Congrats! Super happy for you!!!

Great news, officially a Tenured Associate Professor! Not bad for the son of immigrants hardworking parents. Many thanks to countless mentors, friends, family, and colleagues for their time and advice. @BCM_TropMed

Hoy es el día! Llega a término el doctorado de @EdwinVazGro con mi dirección y la de @JobLopezRF . Today is the day for Edwin’s PhD defense!! @CQB_IPN @IPNENCB @IPN_MX

Our paper describing O. turicata in the Mexican states of Aguascalientes and Zacatecas is now published!! DOI 10.1007/s10493-023-00830-2 congrats @EdwinVazGro & thanks to all our collaborators @JobLopezRF , @AlexKneubehl , @pestradas @krishnavajhala and the rest of the team!

Isolation and genetic characterization of tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes from #ticks collected by a home in Camayeca, #Mexico. We believe this disease is being misdiagnosed in the Americas #infectiousdisease #publichealth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@BStevensonLab @TickEurope I miss being there. I enjoy this meeting!

International Relapsing Fever Conference begins. Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic @TickEurope

@c5486112 @BCMFromtheLabs @AlexKneubehl Love hearing your work!

@BCMFromtheLabs Thanks for @JobLopezRF to invite me and Wen-Hsiang Chen (not on twitter) to give talk there. @AlexKneubehl , you asked a great question! Hope you like those birds in my talk

Look forward to tomorrow at @BCMFromtheLabs Baylor College of Medicine to share our multidisciplinary work in dissecting the underlying mechanisms of the host tropism using Lyme disease system!

@BStevensonLab @ackrusen @UKyMIMG That’s a cool idea

Lab tradition: customized cup for trainee's 1st first-authored publication. Congratulations to @ackrusen @UKyMIMG journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

@JedMSP @AlexKneubehl I see your future

excited to publish an approach to amplify entire tick mitochondrial genomes and sequence them for ~$10/sample. cost effective approach for phylogenetic studies that should be applicable across different taxa. ⁦⁦⁦⁦Good job ⁦@AlexKneubehl⁩ nature.com/articles/s4159…

@BStevensonLab @LymeScience I am not up to date on this subject and could use help. Ticks acquired spirochetes but the bacteria could not be cultured. How were bacteria detected in ticks and does that mean spirochetes were viable in enough densities to be acquired by ticks and then detected in ticks?

@LymeScience Outliers, in my opinion. But these observations need to be addressed, and not ignored. B burgdorferi have been acquired by feeding ticks on antibiotic-treated humans and lab animals. But they were uniformly non-culturable. Loss of essential genes may explain that phenomenon.

Zombie Borrelia? Some humans and lab animals can be infected with B. burgdorferi (Lyme disease), treated with antibiotics, yet sometimes ticks can feed on those people/animals, and acquire B. burgdorferi (although the bacteria fail to grow in culture). A hypothesis: 🧵

@drbourret Here, enjoy a Dr. Evil picture. Helps brighten my day.

Morning: looking forward to a productive day at work. Currently:

@NianticHelp @PokemonGoApp What about the serval research with battling with your buddy. Is there a glitch because I’m doing battles but I’m not getting the reward. I’ve even given my buddy treats and he’s adventuring with me.

Trainers, a visual bug is causing Pokémon attracted to Incense and Lures to appear after they have already fled from the Map. We are working on resolving this issue, thanks for your patience. #PokemonGO

Behind on tweeting but excited to get this manuscript out. Characterization of Immunological Responses to Borrelia Immunogenic Protein A (BipA), a Species-Specific Antigen for North American Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever | Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

@AlexKneubehl @nanopore Congrats, Alex. This has been something I’ve wanted to do for years and you did a really good job with this project.

My first first author paper went live today! Comp. genomics of W. Hemisphere sTBRF spirochetes using complete chromosome & plasmid-resolved genomes thanks to @nanopore sequencing. Shout out to @JobLopezRF for his mentorship, our lab, and our collaborators. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@AAFaccini @AlexKneubehl Thank you. I was happy to get that report out.

Great manuscript! @AlexKneubehl @JobLopezRF”serum from patients with early and disseminated LD do not cross-react with rBipA from B. turicatae, B. parkeri, and B. hermsii. This is important in regions where Lyme borreliosis is being diagnosed but epidemiological support is absent

@DrAdrianaTroyo @JodyBugsMeUNL From the different people I talked to they seem to be biting people but I don’t know if they’re having reactions. I emailed you a little bit ago with some ideas

@JodyBugsMeUNL @JobLopezRF Have they been biting people and are they getting allergic reactions?

Tick hunting 🤩… in a bedroom!! 🤯 Story still developing…

Enjoying giving a training exercise for the Texas health department this week on collecting soft ticks in Austin parks. It’s also fun working and hanging out with @Budetlanin and @AlexKneubehl in the field. Where’s Waldo?