Paige Hansen

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Yesterday was such an awesome day @waldenpondstate for our inaugural #TalGroup #LymeTeam #Lymeplooza! My heart is so full ♥️

Does it matter if you’re sweating at the time you get a tick bite? Do you have #Lyme fighting proteins in your sweat? Check out our latest preprint with @HannaMOllila where we take a deep look at the genetics of people who get Lyme disease. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Have you ever wondered what factors affect risk for #Lyme disease? Our new study in @finngen_fi finds two host factors that affect disease risk: one at canonical immune locus, HLA, and one at a quite unexpected locus, SCGB1D2! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Woohoo! This is getting a prize spot on display on my office wall!!! Incredible work @PhoebeYiu1, @PaigeSHansen and all! I'm so proud of you!

Turns out u can blur your work/life boundary even further by making your own super niche CAH cards to play with your cohort

@cineflek The way I overthink some things haha... trying to get better about that

If you met an exact clone of yourself, what would be the first thing that got on your nerves about you?

Dear ALL voting Californians. You have been entrusted with the opportunity to fund a life-saving research initiative that in the last decade has more than proven itself. We talked to Miss California about this just now. I hope that you vote Yes on prop 14. stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/2gxc…

Our new ex-vivo Human skin explant system to investigate Powassan virus and Borrelia (and other TBD agents) transmission!! If successful, it opens up endless possibilities to understand the biology of disease transmission by ticks (and other bloodsuckers!)

1/3 Helping process samples on the back-end of a clinical trial is a different experience from Drs interacting with patients. But when you've got a sample with hardly no PBMCs because the patient had severe lymphopenia, you really do think about the person and not just the sample

The bacteria that cause #Lyme disease, Bb, have lots of tricks they use to evade clearance by the immune system. Here's a pic of the detectives on this case trying to understand these tricks and how to beat Bb at their own game @BalynZaro @PaigeSHansen @Sarah00Galloway

My talk at Stanford (and on Zoom) from today on coronavirus. The talk starts just after 2 minutes in. Slides to follow in the thread and will also be available by PPT upon request. Huge thank you to @florian_krammer for giving me his slides to build off of stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/2MVM…

We think of macrophages as these Pac-man cells but I think we should think of them as elasti-macs. Watch as some eat themselves to death trying to eat the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. #TakeABiteOutOfLyme #Cellfie