Nora M. Shamoon, M.S.

@JoVEJournal @UCSF Thank you! 😁

@NoraShamoon @UCSF Congratulations @NoraShamoon!

It was a great pleasure presenting our latest preprint (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…) today @UCSF which is now in press @JoVEJournal. Grateful to the wonderful infectious diseases research community in the Bay Area.

@pubity ❤️

MrBeast spent over $3 million building new schools in Africa, India, Mexico, and the U.S. for children in need.

An optimized protocol for Candida albicans infection in Schmidtea mediterranea to study fungal pathogenesis and host defense biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_micrbio

Friends 👩‍🔬🥼🧪 interested in preclinical models 🐁🪱 and fungal infection 🍄 -- check out our newest preprint 📰 describing a rigorous protocol to use the flatworm as a model for fungal infection. In a recent seminar I explain in detail 👩‍🏫: youtu.be/2K3Wbixto2Q

@KrugAlli ❤️

This piece in Unherd, coauthored with @VPrasadMDMPH, was written in early 2022 at a time when children were still being masked and many schools were either not open or in a hybrid mode of online and in-person. It was a call for balance and reason, an appreciation for our body's innate resilience, and an honest interpretation of the data. There is a group of people who from time to time choose to repost certain sentences from this piece that they take great exception to. They post them without context and suggest that I wanted to infect children in order to protect grandma. This is a grotesque and willful misinterpretation, and has been going on for the entirety of last week. I'm sharing this with my followers so that you can see the entire article. I appreciate fear and anxiety - I have a great deal of health anxiety that I am often grappling with due to being very sick and hospitalized as a child. Fear makes balanced decision-making difficult because I imagine the worst-case scenarios. Living in fear is harmful in its own right, though. My followers know that I am a person of nuance and character who appreciates good data, because with sound data good people tend to make good decisions. In this highly charged and polarized world, it would be so easy for me to block those who disagree with me, just so I can sleep easier at night and not have to take on deep feelings of concern for them and empathy with their fears. However, that's not the path for me. I don't block anyone, and I read every reply. I think it's vital for us to be open to considering other viewpoints. It is imperative that we proceed cautiously and without confirmation bias blinders on. We may agree to disagree, but I don't think it's ethical to ignore those we disagree with. We must engage - it is better for science and policy if we do. Here is what I said at the time, and I stand by it. But do not take what I said out of context. The data consistently shows that our bodies are resilient, and that vaccination is no substitute for mucosal immunity which we must win the hard way (through exposures inherent in living a full life). Vaccination can attenuate the most disastrous and rare outcomes of diseases, and I fully support vaccination - but not ALL vaccines for ALL humans. Shared decision-making is imperative. To allow truly informed consent we need to do the hard work of asking unpleasant questions and gathering honest data. That is what @DrJBhattacharya is doing and I fully support him and the team @DrMakaryFDA @RetsefL @TracyBethHoeg and @VPrasadMDMPH . unherd.com/2022/02/should…

The @pewtrusts have chosen to highlight professor Clarissa Nobile, UC Merced’s first Pew biomedical research fellow. You can read more about her research and fellowship here: 🔗 ucm.edu/3rta3o

@ucmerced @SloanFoundation @shaharsu @UCMChemistry you rock @shaharsu 👏👏👏

Prof. Shahar Sukenik is among this year's recipients of the @SloanFoundation research fellowship, the first faculty member on our campus to receive this award, for his research into intrinsically disordered proteins. Learn more about his work here 🔗 ucm.edu/nN4DqI

🎉It's finally out!! We show that intramolecular interactions in IDPs are strong enough to hold in the cell, but flexible enough to respond to cellular volume changes. A labor of love of many people, mainly recent graduate @david_c_moses and @the_KarinaG. shorturl.at/cdyR2

...and today the second Ph.D. defense from the lab!! @david_c_moses will talk about how disordered proteins can act as sensors of their environment. Welcome to join at 12:30 PST via zoom ucmerced.zoom.us/6677152089

So excited for the first PhD defense from the lab - Feng Yu @FengYu_Bio @QSB_UCMerced is defending this Friday!!

Interested in understanding how and why IDRs matter for cellular function? @BBKrage and I took a deep dive into this question and – with excellent feedback and critiques from colleagues & our amazing editor – put together our perspective on this: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our December issue is compiled! The cover depicts how the intrinsic disorder of proteins may act as cellular sensors of their #physicochemical environment (i.e. temperature, pH, redox state). @david_c_moses @GarrettGinell @alexholehouse @shaharsu cell.com/trends/biochem…

Sequence-ensemble-function relationships for disordered proteins in live cells biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

VALLEY FEVER: Possibility of an upcoming human vaccine for coccidioidomycosis is exciting. Workshop tomorrow on the vaccine (will talk about vaccine hesitancy in this era & how think vaccine uptake will be high among those at risk for this fungal pathogen) events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/we…

Check out our latest preprint! Big shout-out to @Nora__Margaret for her invaluable contributions to data collection🔬and @remenecker for spearheading GOOSE. 🪿

So glad to see this out after 3 years in the making! A Herculean effort by @the_KarinaG @remenecker and @Nora__Margaret. We test some long-standing axioms about disordered proteins using rationally designed #IDRs 🍝 in live cells! Comments welcome! shorturl.at/ALMS5

🚨NEW REVIEW🚨The flexibility of disordered proteins makes them ideal sensors of the cellular environment. Read how this happens and why YOU should care in this review! With dream team @david_c_moses , @GarrettGinell, and @alexholehouse. shorturl.at/diqY8 (Open access)

When disordered proteins are linked to a surface, they exert an entropic pulling force. @FengYu_Bio and @shaharsu show this entropic force depends on the structural biases encoded in disordered protein ensembles, as well as their chemical environment. go.acs.org/5zL