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Alex Cook

@alexandercook.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Biochemistry, Oxford. Wanting to know how trypanosome parasites outsmart their host. Imaging wildlife in the lab or the wilderness.

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Alex Cook @alexandercook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited to share a new preprint: we've discovered a new complement system inhibitor on the African trypanosome surface! It traps the short-lived C3 convertase in a catalytically inactive state. It was a fun journey discovering and characterising this protein! Read it here: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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