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Vasant M

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Professor at the University of Georgia studying how malaria parasites invade, remodel, and destroy human red blood cells. Views my own. www.muralidharanlab.org

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics - open field! More info below!
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Assistant Professor
The Department of International Affairs (IA) at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2027. We seek a sc...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don't use slop. Someone's trying to make money out of you and your colleagues and your friends. Do yourself a favor and read 100% human-crated content in @prelights.bsky.social Upload preprints. Read preprints. Cite preprints. Fuck AI 🧪
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Homepage - preLights
Welcome to preLights, the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Here, a team of scientists regularly review, highlight and comment on ...
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Always loved watching his travelogues and now this? Truly an amazing, wonderful person 💗💗
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ParasitesRule @parasitesrule.org · 16/12/2025
🦠 Grad students & postdocs in parasitology: Apply now for the Biology of Parasitism (BoP): Modern Approaches course at @MBLScience. Hands-on labs, expert lectures, and cutting-edge tools. 📅 Summer 2026 | ⏰ Deadline Feb 5 🔗 mbl.edu/courses
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ParasitesRule @parasitesrule.org · 11/10/2025
Interested in Parasitology conferences in 2026? Look no further, check out the list of upcoming conferences on the parasitesrule website: www.parasitesrule.com/conferences
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 25/09/2025
Our user comments campaign may be over, but your user comments are welcome and valuable EVERYDAY! Crowdsourced user knowledge fuels discovery and helps keep gene data accurate, accessible, and impactful. Visit any gene page on @veupathdb.org or component sites to add a comment!
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Apropos as we raise new barriers for people from the global south... I'm supposed to be co-leading a conference with a colleague from Brazil, next year. Forget equity, it likely not safe for them to travel here www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 11/09/2025
@veupathdb.org communities — connect with us at these upcoming meetings! ✅ Stop by our booth and say hi ✅ Participate in our user comments campaign to win free swag at MPM (starting this Sunday!)✨ veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap... Will we see you there?
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 10/09/2025
NEW in @veupathdb.org: Subscription groups in your account! ✅ Green checkmark = active subscriber group Manage group membership from the new Subscription tab in your account (click on the user avatar in the upper right corner of the site). Thanks for supporting open access!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet. Please share #ScienceSavedMe
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025
The Pod Save America plan to debate trans people’s existence (this got sent to me without a credit on it so happy to add credit if someone knows its origin)
A broadcaster sitting with two men, one of whom looks a little rough 

THE HOT TAKE
"Thank you doctor, now let's hear what a raving lunatic thinks."
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
These data lay the groundwork to dig deeper into this process because if we can block egress, this kills the parasite! You can read more about this here (we welcome any/all feedback you may have): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of signal dependent exocytosis and parasitophorous vacuolar membrane rupture during Plasmodium falciparum egress
Malaria, caused by intracellular Plasmodium parasites, remains a major global health concern. These parasites reside and replicate within a vacuole in host red blood cells. Egress of daughter parasite...
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
She observed that exocytosis begins several hours prior to daughter parasite formation. There is a second signal that results in membrane rupture, which only happens at one site (magenta signal, in video). She also identified a calcium-binding protein that is required for vesicle exocytosis.
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Dr. Dedkhad decided to focus on a key process, vesicle exocytosis, that was posited to be critical for membrane rupture. She targeted a reporter to specific vesicles in the malaria parasite that are secreted in response to the egress signal (gray signal, in video).
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Exiting the host has to be timed perfectly. Leave too soon, you die, leave too late, your daughter cells are exhausted and die. The timing of how the parasite decides to blow up its home to exit is murky.
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Really meticulous, exciting work from Dr. Am Dedkhad from our lab ‪(@universityofga.bsky.social). Malaria-causing parasites only grow and divide inside another cell. Once daughter parasites are made, they have exit the host cell to find a new home. Am set out to see this process in live parasites:
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What an amazing abstract!
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Jiménez-Ruiz Lab @jimenezruizlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hi there! Our group at LMU Munich is hiring a postdoc to work on Toxoplasma and Plasmodium. Start: from Oct 1, 2025 | Location: Munich, Germany 1-year contract with extension possible Apply by Aug 31: bit.ly/LMUpostdoc Contact: elena.jimenez@lmu.de
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Thanks Abhinay! And with the newly vested proFessorial authority, i do hereby proclaim dosas to be superior in all aspects!
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
So incredibly idiotic and what a waste. These people are so ignorant and incredibly stupid. They simply can’t comprehend non-transactional HUMAN interactions.
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Thanks Sabrina! Finding friends like you has been a big highlight and one of the reasons why i love academia
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Thanks Ira! Couldn't have done it without our wonderful community!
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A small personal update.. it is official today.
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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Cluster hire in ecosystem ecology at UGA! Come join us! 🌎🌱
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Don't give them ideas, Rob!! 😅
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The floggings will continue until morale improves www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations
Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
It’s just personal preference my guy. I have never liked idlis. My dislike doesn’t inhibit your enjoyment of idlis 😁
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I mean if you like a mouthful of barely cooked batter… vs a crispy delicious crepe with endless variations of fillings!
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
My ancestors would turn in their graves if they had one.
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Idlis. A waste of dosa batter if you ask me. I may get my South Indian card revoked after this.
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Moritz Treeck @moritztreeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What happens when the parasite that causes malaria in humans experiences fever-induced heat stress in its host red blood cell? Check out David Jones' PhD work now on BioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ben Liffner @benliffner.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Come and join our team! We currently have two PhD scholarships between Danny Wilson and myself We are a supportive, productive, and inclusive research group studying parasite cell biology @ The University of Adelaide in beautiful South Australia scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 10/06/2025
We would love your feedback on the new AI-powered expression summaries on gene pages in @veupathdb.org Go to Gene page > Transcriptomics > “AI Expression Summary” > Click to generate summary > Review the summary and give it a 👍or 👎 . You also have the option to fill a survey. Thank you!
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 09/06/2025
🚀Big News! We’re now offering AI-powered summaries of expression data on gene pages in @veupathdb.org See expression patterns and get insights with a single click! 🧬🔎 Go to your favorite gene pages and look for “AI Expression Summary” under Transcriptomics.
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WHO @who.int · 10/06/2025
Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇
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ParasitesRule @parasitesrule.org · 05/06/2025
Registration and Abstract submission for MPMXXXVI are now open! Abstract submission deadline is June 27th, get yours in quickly. @rmc9z.bsky.social @mjgubbels.bsky.social @omarharb.org 🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 28/05/2025
📹We've made more short videos to highlight features on @veupathdb.org 💫 This one walks you thro' the section on gene pages called the RNAseq transcriptomic summary. Get an overview of datasets where your favorite gene is doing something interesting. Watch it now! www.youtube.com/shorts/V2eZi...
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Gene Page RNAseq Transcriptomic Summary
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 15/05/2025
New data alert! 📂ToxoDB now includes data from functional profiling of the entire T. gondii genome during cell culture & murine infection using a CRISPR-based screen (Guiliano et al. 2024). 🔎 Explore the data here toxodb.org/toxo/app/sea...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe
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Becca Riggins 🇻🇮 ⛵️🧪 @profriggins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Come be my colleague! Open-rank tenure-line position(s) in cancer cell bio/pharmacology/biochemistry at Georgetown University apply.interfolio.com/167091 🧪🧬 👩‍🔬
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Sabrina Absalon, Phd @sabsalon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Join us for a talk by Dr. Selasi Dankwa studies vascular pathology in pediatric cerebral malaria, with broader insights into endothelial barrier function and vascular disease. #Malaria #GlobalHealth #Neurovascular #parasites You did not receive your link, register here iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 21/04/2025
Keep VEuPathDB open-access to all by subscribing today! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency
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Sabrina Absalon, Phd @sabsalon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An Essential Adaptor for Apicoplast Fission and Inheritance in Malaria Parasites
Blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites rely on a non-photosynthetic plastid, the apicoplast, for survival, making it an attractive target for antimalarial intervention. Like the mitochondrion, th...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 10/03/2025
GEORGIA: I’m holding a virtual town hall TOMORROW at 6PM! I’ll be livestreaming on Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube, & Instagram—where I’ll be answering your questions about what’s going on in Washington & my work for Georgia. Leave your name, county, and questions you have for me. Be sure to tune in!
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Look up what happened in the USSR when Lysenko was in charge of the institute of genetics in the Soviet academy of sciences. Lysenkoism caused famines and his unscientific contributions killed millions in Russia and China. This new ‘peer review’ will kill biomedical research in the US.
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Vasant M @vasant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only
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a group of men are dancing in front of a sign that says " help wanted "
Alt: Blues brothers are dancing in front of a sign that says " help wanted " and ray charles on the keynoarf
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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 18/02/2025
The Das lab is hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral associate interested in investigating the fundamentals of cell polarization. Prior yeast experience not needed. bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow - Biology
Postdoctoral Research FellowFTE Range $65,000 - $74,665 based on experienceA postdoctoral position is available in the Das Lab at Boston College to in...
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
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