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Isobel Ronai

@isobelronai.bsky.social
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Ticks + tick-associated diseases research | Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow of HHMI + Harvard University | www.isobelronai.com/

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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
U. Dirnagl on Academic publishing: doom – Or dawn of a new era? Lots of discussion about open access, preprints and AI. #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ticks – genomic insights and anti-microbiota vaccines #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The microbiome of Ixodes ticks session #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
S. A. Muñoz Leal on Tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in South America: past, present and future directions - identification of unique soft tick species and Borrelia in South America. #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Sinnecker-Kunz Award session #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Field ecology II session #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Field ecology I session #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Borrelia session #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Klemen Strle on Immune response in the pathogenesis of Lyme disease - identifying genetic risk factors for host immune response to Borrelia leading to disease #ISTTBD-XVI
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ready for days of ticks! Currently attending the 16th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases #ISTTBD-XVI
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium. Baltimore, MD, on April 30, 2025. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research and Education Institute. mailchi.mp/2e33f32f42bd... 🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬 #MicroSky #TickSky
picture of tick, advertising Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻 I want to help! Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting Science together is better than alone 🙌
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Ronel Pienaar @ronelpienaar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The female of the species sporting a funky goaty. #Ixodes_pilosus-group
The female of the species sporting a funky goaty.
_Ixodes_ _pilosus_ group
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Karen C. Poh @areyoukeddingme.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Kennan Oyen & I put together a short summary article on Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, a tick species we often work with in our unit - article is online now in Trends in Parasitology! 🤗 Happy reading! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rhipicephalus microplus (Southern cattle tick; Asian blue tick)
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
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PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Do your walls need bugs? I've put a selection of my photographs on sale for the holidays, up to 70% off regular fine art prices.
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Holiday Sale 2024 - Alex Wild
A selection of photographs discounted up to 70% off regular fine art prices until January 5, 2025. Explore various mounting and framing options in checkout.
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ticks7.bsky.social @ticks7.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Probably you are looking for a collection of papers on ticks and pathogens. I curate manually this collection and I continue updating it. Now with more than 14,000 (downloadable) papers. Just give it a chance and tell me about, please. www.scienceopen.com/collection/d...
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Ticks and tick-borne pathogens
<p>This collection is focused on the research of ticks and tick-transmitted pathogens. It aims to include papers on a wide variety of disciplines related to ticks and the pathogens they transmit, focu...
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ticks7.bsky.social @ticks7.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It is curious that Mediterranean rabbits have monoxenous ticks like Rhipicephalus pusillus (right), Haemaphysalis hispanica (left) or Ixodes ventalloi. Probably consequences of relict endemism in last glaciation refugia (picture by Carlos Pradera)
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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
When did insects first show up in art? The earliest example was carved into a bison bone dated to 15,000 years ago (!) found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France. It shows a cave cricket which probably represents Troglophilus, a genus not found in the region in the present day. 🦗🎨 #bugsky
A photo of the bone carving, which is yellowed, deeply etched, and sitting on a paper backdrop. Source: Di Russo, C, Sbordoni, V (1998). Gryllacridoidea. In Juberthie, C, Decu, V (eds). Encyclopedia Biospeleological vol. II, pp. 969-977.A diagram showing major landmarks on the bone carving. At the top is a cave cricket. Other figures include humans and a bird talon. Source: Bégouën, H (1929). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 26, pp. 197-199.
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Shirley Luckhart @shirleyluckhart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello to all my new and re-found friends! If you don’t know who I am, I am the insect curator at UT Austin, a former Peace Corps volunteer, and a longtime freelance nature photographer.
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Portfolio - Alex Wild
Insect Photography by Alex Wild
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Vector-Borne Diseases in the UK @ukvbd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. @baylism.bsky.social payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...
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UK VBD Conference 2024 | University of Liverpool
The threat to the UK from vector-borne diseases is rising at astonishing pace. Mosquito and tick species have invaded; Usutu virus is present; Lyme disease
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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619921v1
Ticks are a major health threat to humans and other animals, through direct damage, toxicoses, and t
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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584159v1
Ticks are obligate blood-feeding parasites associated with a huge diversity of diseases globally. Th
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Isobel Ronai @isobelronai.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
My last few years of tick and tick-borne diseases research is summed up in this 1,000 word The Conversation article! 'Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate' theconversation.com/tick-managem...
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Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate
Lyme disease affects millions worldwide. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from this insidious illness.
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