Leger-Abraham Lab

The latest Global Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 2025, reveals that global official development assistance for NTDs fell by 41% between 2018 and 2023, threatening to reverse the hard-won gains. Unite. Act. Eliminate NTDs. Report bit.ly/4q4uuQg Press release bit.ly/45D1gki

@abrahamlabhms @CellCellPress @HarvardMicro Congrats on the beautiful work!

We are excited to share our new @CellCellPress paper revealing mechanisms of action of promising drugs against the helicase–primase of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) 🤩@HarvardMicro cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

@silvirouskin @albericlajarte @YvesMartinDT @bongrandp Congrats Silvi;)))

NEW PAPER from the lab , if we can afford the publication fees 💀🤣. BIG CONGRATULATIONS to the people who did the work esp ⁦@albericlajarte⁩ ⁦@YvesMartinDT⁩ , ⁦@bongrandp⁩ and all the rest most of whom are on BlueSky :) MORE to come !

@WeingartenShira @biorxivpreprint @CristinaGVx @HarvardMicro @HC2EM Thank you so much Shira;)

@LegerAbrahamLab @biorxivpreprint @CristinaGVx @HarvardMicro @HC2EM Congratulations Mel and Cristina! ✨

So excited to share our work @biorxivpreprint, which shows the ribosome structure of the tick-borne pathogen Babesia divergens! Congratulations @CristinaGVx @HarvardMicro and @HC2EM biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

As babesiosis incidence continues to rise worldwide 🌎, our Babesia divergens ribosome structure lays the groundwork for studying newly reported rRNA modifications and identifying parasite-specific vulnerabilities for therapeutic intervention.

Combining single-particle cryo-EM and nanopore sequencing enabled us to map rRNA modifications in the Babesia ribosome, including nearly half that have not been reported in any organism 😲 These novel modifications span minimized expansion segments and key functional regions.

@abrahamlabhms @HMS_BCMP @HarvardMicro Ditto!

Thankful for the opportunity to tell the story of how @LegerAbrahamLab and I met at a departmental happy hour @HMS_BCMP! Now lucky to be neighbors @HarvardMicro. hms.harvard.edu/news/love-medi… ♥️♥️♥️

Excited to visit the NYSBC today with #CSHLlab cryo-EM group;)

We are hiring! Tenure track position at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. Please retweet. Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4934…

@AJamesMcCarthy Wowww, great admiration for this gigantic beautiful planet (my son’s middle name). Amazing shot!

After spending all night shooting around 600,000 photos of it, I’m thrilled to show you my sharpest Jupiter shot so far. This was captured using an 11” telescope and a camera I usually use for deep sky work.

The 9th New England Cryo-EM Symposium will be hosted this year at Harvard Medical School on Nov 9th, 2022. We look forward to welcoming researchers from New England and beyond to @harvardmed! More details and registration: tinyurl.com/2xtyauzx

Fun to be back @CSHL! Awaiting the beginning of translational control meeting;)