Peter Kasson @[email protected]

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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com

Peter Kasson @[email protected]

@kassonlab

We study physical mechanism at the pathogen-host interface. Professional account @[email protected]

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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
Been away for a while. Elon's latest outrage makes me loath to support this site, though I miss the people. Heading back into Mastodonia for a bit. Come find me there.
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
Challenge factor of assembling children's furniture is substantially enhanced when toddler wants to participate.
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
@vijaypande The thing I always wonder is how much of the rest creates the environment where the sqrt(N) people want to work. Clearly not the -1x but...?
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Vijay Pande
Vijay Pande@vijaypande·
Company with N employees: - sqrt(N) doing most, with the rest: - junior people with reasonable attitudes and minimal skills & contributions - 0.1x lifestyle workers - Good talkers, look like stars but are smoke and mirrors, spending time lobbying others instead of doing (-1x)
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Dr. Kimberly Carlson
Dr. Kimberly Carlson@tropicalscience·
@kassonlab Gloves (less frustrating once on) with a fun image on palm (like trucks). But also, in frostbite inducing weather, a few minutes without is pretty convincing!
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
We have shown previously that membrane deformability does have a big effect. So for influenza entry, it's not where you start that matters but how you climb the barrier.
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
Our article on measuring genome exposure in influenza viral entry is posted in final form (available as preprint first). Great work by Ana! Surprisingly, starting membrane curvature doesn't affect fusion kinetics 1/2 doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.…
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
and commentary nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… "how high will we allow the societal costs to be, and who will bear the greatest costs? Universal masking policies distribute a small cost across society, rather than [...] onto populations that have already been made vulnerable"
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
Nice study and thoughtful commentary in NEJM: "the lifting of masking requirements was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid-19 cases per 1000 students and staff during the 15 weeks after the statewide masking policy was rescinded." nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
been away from the bird for about a week. Lots happening in the real world. And, well, interesting changes here. Waiting to see how it all plays out.
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
@hardsci Highly variable. I usually employ the criterion of having enough information to say "yes, I think this is a good person" in a professional context. Could be working with them, interactions at conference, an extended professional conversation.
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Peter Kasson @peterkasson@med-mastodon.com
@RommieAmaro Thanks! I'll be interested to compare your omicron findings because we get weaker kinetic activation for fusion by the omicron spike we've used. If the binding affinity and the activation kinetics are decoupled, that would be really cool. But need to compare closely.
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