Joseph Smith Jr., Ph.D.
@drhazmatic.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Dept of Micro and Immuno at University at Buffalo 🦬 • 🇨🇲 Parasitologist 🔬🧬 • Former 🌪️ chaser • Slytherin 🐍 • I post about trypanosomes 🐉, wine 🍷 , coffee ☕️, and opera 🗣🎶
First day of Year 2 in #PIlife… last night, I literally scheduled text messages and emails to go out today because I had no intention of leaving my bed before 1pm LOL. Goal achieved.
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September 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
First day of Year 2 in #PIlife… last night, I literally scheduled text messages and emails to go out today because I had no intention of leaving my bed before 1pm LOL. Goal achieved.
Grant submitted!!! Ice cream tonight!
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August 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Grant submitted!!! Ice cream tonight!
DP2 not discussed. Welp. On to the next one lol.
May 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
DP2 not discussed. Welp. On to the next one lol.
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🚨 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...
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...
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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April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨 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...
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...
This weekend had so many events planned, and I missed all of them. I hate being sick 🤧 🤒… I couldn’t even focus enough to do some writing for than 30 minutes at a time. At least it wasnt COVID or the flu, so only a few more days of discomfort… hopefully.
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March 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This weekend had so many events planned, and I missed all of them. I hate being sick 🤧 🤒… I couldn’t even focus enough to do some writing for than 30 minutes at a time. At least it wasnt COVID or the flu, so only a few more days of discomfort… hopefully.
Ok… Now that I have taken a 30-day break from social media to focus on LIFE. How is everyone doing?
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February 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Ok… Now that I have taken a 30-day break from social media to focus on LIFE. How is everyone doing?
TikTok University has been a hilarious development… and I may or may not have signed up for Organic Chemistry. Maybe I will understand it with a different professor LOL
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January 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
TikTok University has been a hilarious development… and I may or may not have signed up for Organic Chemistry. Maybe I will understand it with a different professor LOL
I know the South (of the US) is not particularly used to significant snowfall, but it is not a “once in every 100 years” rarity. At this point… it’s every 1-2 years. I think it’s time for the South to admit it needs more preparation for snow. With this climate, even Buffalo got caught off-guard so…
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January 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I know the South (of the US) is not particularly used to significant snowfall, but it is not a “once in every 100 years” rarity. At this point… it’s every 1-2 years. I think it’s time for the South to admit it needs more preparation for snow. With this climate, even Buffalo got caught off-guard so…
Well I went to the Sing Along version of Wicked in theaters… now THIS was a fun time. I need more musicals to be WELL-adapted to film so there can be more sing alongs. Because all the theater kids and Wicked enthusiasts clustered together… and WE PUT ON A SHOW! 🎤😫🎶
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January 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Well I went to the Sing Along version of Wicked in theaters… now THIS was a fun time. I need more musicals to be WELL-adapted to film so there can be more sing alongs. Because all the theater kids and Wicked enthusiasts clustered together… and WE PUT ON A SHOW! 🎤😫🎶
Tried a non-alcoholic whiskey alternative… it… tastes… terrible.
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December 21, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Tried a non-alcoholic whiskey alternative… it… tastes… terrible.
Starter packs! More starter packs for ya @jp-1fungi.bsky.social
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I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
December 11, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Starter packs! More starter packs for ya @jp-1fungi.bsky.social
I have taken out my winter wardrobe, and I am very happy sitting in my office in my nice, warm, slightly oversized sweater ☺️
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December 9, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I have taken out my winter wardrobe, and I am very happy sitting in my office in my nice, warm, slightly oversized sweater ☺️
I’m not even gonna sit here and act surprised lol. I WILL say that I thought Daughter would be #2 though lol
December 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
I’m not even gonna sit here and act surprised lol. I WILL say that I thought Daughter would be #2 though lol
Ok I keep looking at the state travel restrictions websites to see if Im driving home tomorrow… because the chaos getting to Cleveland felt like I was snowboarding with my SUV. The snowbands are more offshore right now, but I need to get back before they shift back ONshore 😬
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December 1, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Ok I keep looking at the state travel restrictions websites to see if Im driving home tomorrow… because the chaos getting to Cleveland felt like I was snowboarding with my SUV. The snowbands are more offshore right now, but I need to get back before they shift back ONshore 😬
Oh boy, I have to drive back through the chaos tomorrow to get back to Buffalo. I need Lake Erie to calm down for a day so I don’t have to snowboard in my SUV again.
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November 30, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Oh boy, I have to drive back through the chaos tomorrow to get back to Buffalo. I need Lake Erie to calm down for a day so I don’t have to snowboard in my SUV again.
For the first time, I had to leave Buffalo to get some snow. Normally, Buffalo is fighting the snow back, but it has been evading the city this year. Meanwhile… I left Buffalo and ran straight into a blizzard.
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November 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
For the first time, I had to leave Buffalo to get some snow. Normally, Buffalo is fighting the snow back, but it has been evading the city this year. Meanwhile… I left Buffalo and ran straight into a blizzard.
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I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
November 24, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!
I wanted pho, so I texted the guys saying “my fellow brethren, I desire the pho with the bruh…s” lol we are scheduled for Tuesday. I never thought adulting would be scheduling friendship pho dates lol
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November 25, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I wanted pho, so I texted the guys saying “my fellow brethren, I desire the pho with the bruh…s” lol we are scheduled for Tuesday. I never thought adulting would be scheduling friendship pho dates lol
Gladiator II was a good watch… and now… time to see Wicked again in 30 minutes. I have been enjoying decompressing by watching movies. Putting this Regal Unlimited membership to work.
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November 23, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Gladiator II was a good watch… and now… time to see Wicked again in 30 minutes. I have been enjoying decompressing by watching movies. Putting this Regal Unlimited membership to work.
Since I got an early access ticket for Wicked, I can technically get another discounted ticket for the standard release tomorrow…. Guess Im seeing Wicked again tomorrow lol…. After Gladiator II. I am happy 😊
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November 22, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Since I got an early access ticket for Wicked, I can technically get another discounted ticket for the standard release tomorrow…. Guess Im seeing Wicked again tomorrow lol…. After Gladiator II. I am happy 😊
Wicked was SO good. I didn’t know if I was going to enjoy it, but Cynthia and Ariana really embodied those characters. They WERE Elphaba and Ga-linda (🤭).
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November 21, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Wicked was SO good. I didn’t know if I was going to enjoy it, but Cynthia and Ariana really embodied those characters. They WERE Elphaba and Ga-linda (🤭).
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🧪Looking to follow other New PIs who also don't know what we're doing? We've just started a second starter pack - check it out (and the link to the first one) here! go.bsky.app/FcYEbs9
November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
🧪Looking to follow other New PIs who also don't know what we're doing? We've just started a second starter pack - check it out (and the link to the first one) here! go.bsky.app/FcYEbs9
I’m… not sure how I feel about this one. I saw it and was feeling adventurous… and um… it’s… I mean, it’s ice cream, but… idk… look, imma eat it because it was $5… but… i’m not buying it again lol.
November 16, 2024 at 3:29 AM
I’m… not sure how I feel about this one. I saw it and was feeling adventurous… and um… it’s… I mean, it’s ice cream, but… idk… look, imma eat it because it was $5… but… i’m not buying it again lol.
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My favorite photo from last night's colloquium dinner, at the soup-themed entrance decor.
November 16, 2024 at 3:25 AM
My favorite photo from last night's colloquium dinner, at the soup-themed entrance decor.
This day has been SO productive. I actuay got 6 out of 5 things on my to-do list done today. As in I had 5 things slated for today and I completed them all PLUS an additional task that was planned for tomorrow, and it’s only 4pm. These coffee shop work days are wonderful.
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November 14, 2024 at 9:02 PM
This day has been SO productive. I actuay got 6 out of 5 things on my to-do list done today. As in I had 5 things slated for today and I completed them all PLUS an additional task that was planned for tomorrow, and it’s only 4pm. These coffee shop work days are wonderful.