Nelson Zamora
@drzamu13.bsky.social
🇧🇴Nephrologist
👨🏫Professor and researcher at the Bolivian Catholic University
📌Interested in GN, cardiorenal connection, POCUS CRTT and microbiology 🦠
Proverbs 24:16
👨🏫Professor and researcher at the Bolivian Catholic University
📌Interested in GN, cardiorenal connection, POCUS CRTT and microbiology 🦠
Proverbs 24:16
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We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
su.varbi.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
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STORY ABOUT A BACTERIA GOING VIRAL
Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus
Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence
Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?
Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus
Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence
Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?
Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus
With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses
www.science.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
STORY ABOUT A BACTERIA GOING VIRAL
Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus
Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence
Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?
Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus
Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence
Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?
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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
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The sodium burden in ICU patients is off the charts! In an effort to bring about change, we’ve designed the Sweet-Water Trial — so excited that it’s up and running! #Nephrology #IntensiveCare #MedSky
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097361
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097361
June 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The sodium burden in ICU patients is off the charts! In an effort to bring about change, we’ve designed the Sweet-Water Trial — so excited that it’s up and running! #Nephrology #IntensiveCare #MedSky
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097361
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097361
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Use of Intravenous Albumin in Nephrology Practice Should Be Guideline-Based by Drs. Ullrich, Clark et al.
journals.lww.com/jasn/citatio...
journals.lww.com/jasn/citatio...
May 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Use of Intravenous Albumin in Nephrology Practice Should Be Guideline-Based by Drs. Ullrich, Clark et al.
journals.lww.com/jasn/citatio...
journals.lww.com/jasn/citatio...
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BACTERIA that rarely TUMBLE are likely to get trapped by obstacles
BACTERIA that TUMBLE frequently often “retrace their steps”
DISPERSION is only maximized in a “SWEET SPOT” that balances tumble frequency with the need to avoid becoming trapped
Henry Mattingly—PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
BACTERIA that TUMBLE frequently often “retrace their steps”
DISPERSION is only maximized in a “SWEET SPOT” that balances tumble frequency with the need to avoid becoming trapped
Henry Mattingly—PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
March 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
BACTERIA that rarely TUMBLE are likely to get trapped by obstacles
BACTERIA that TUMBLE frequently often “retrace their steps”
DISPERSION is only maximized in a “SWEET SPOT” that balances tumble frequency with the need to avoid becoming trapped
Henry Mattingly—PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
BACTERIA that TUMBLE frequently often “retrace their steps”
DISPERSION is only maximized in a “SWEET SPOT” that balances tumble frequency with the need to avoid becoming trapped
Henry Mattingly—PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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My niche kidney-based trivia for The Kinks is that the original bassist, Peter Quaife, was a long-term dialysis patient and an amateur cartoonist who put out two books of comics about life on Dialysis
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My niche kidney-based trivia for The Kinks is that the original bassist, Peter Quaife, was a long-term dialysis patient and an amateur cartoonist who put out two books of comics about life on Dialysis
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If you are interested in the relationship between creatinine excreted by glomerular filtration and muscle mass assessed by CT, you can read our study where we used this relationship to model the only creatinine-based eGFR equation that is race, gender, and age free. doi.org/10.1093/ckj/...
January 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
If you are interested in the relationship between creatinine excreted by glomerular filtration and muscle mass assessed by CT, you can read our study where we used this relationship to model the only creatinine-based eGFR equation that is race, gender, and age free. doi.org/10.1093/ckj/...
HCM = 28 ???? Are there 28 erythrocytes working in your plasma?? Labor exploitation?? 🤔📞hello Professor X ...
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
HCM = 28 ???? Are there 28 erythrocytes working in your plasma?? Labor exploitation?? 🤔📞hello Professor X ...
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The Kidney and the Cane
Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua www.dukeupress.edu/the-kidney-a...
Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua www.dukeupress.edu/the-kidney-a...
January 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The Kidney and the Cane
Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua www.dukeupress.edu/the-kidney-a...
Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua www.dukeupress.edu/the-kidney-a...
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Next time, stick to statins 😅
www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
Red yeast rice (in Beni-Koji tablets) causing tubular injury, tubulointerstitial nephritis and kidney failure
@kidneyint.bsky.social
www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
Red yeast rice (in Beni-Koji tablets) causing tubular injury, tubulointerstitial nephritis and kidney failure
@kidneyint.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Next time, stick to statins 😅
www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
Red yeast rice (in Beni-Koji tablets) causing tubular injury, tubulointerstitial nephritis and kidney failure
@kidneyint.bsky.social
www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...
Red yeast rice (in Beni-Koji tablets) causing tubular injury, tubulointerstitial nephritis and kidney failure
@kidneyint.bsky.social
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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
phylopic.org
December 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
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physiology and pathophysiology of hyponatremia
YouTube video by Joel Topf
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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An open call to join the @cmicomms.bsky.social editorial team: editor in infectious diseases and diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship
Great career opportunity to join this dynamic ID journal's all-star editorial board
@angelahuttner.bsky.social #IDSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great career opportunity to join this dynamic ID journal's all-star editorial board
@angelahuttner.bsky.social #IDSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An open call to join the CMI Communications editorial team: editor in infectious diseases and diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship
www.sciencedirect.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:36 PM
An open call to join the @cmicomms.bsky.social editorial team: editor in infectious diseases and diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship
Great career opportunity to join this dynamic ID journal's all-star editorial board
@angelahuttner.bsky.social #IDSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great career opportunity to join this dynamic ID journal's all-star editorial board
@angelahuttner.bsky.social #IDSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 4, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.
In a Science study from earlier this year, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective:
In a Science study from earlier this year, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective:
The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle
A bacterial endosymbiont of marine algae evolved to an organelle
scim.ag
December 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.
In a Science study from earlier this year, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective:
In a Science study from earlier this year, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective:
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Goodbye SARS-CoV-2, hello 'Betacoronavirus pandemicum'?
@cofford.bsky.social reports on the controversial renaming of thousands of viruses. www.science.org/content/arti...
@cofford.bsky.social reports on the controversial renaming of thousands of viruses. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Silly and pompous’: Official new names for viruses rile up researchers
An overhaul of viruses’ scientific naming system has incensed some virologists, but others are more accepting
www.science.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Goodbye SARS-CoV-2, hello 'Betacoronavirus pandemicum'?
@cofford.bsky.social reports on the controversial renaming of thousands of viruses. www.science.org/content/arti...
@cofford.bsky.social reports on the controversial renaming of thousands of viruses. www.science.org/content/arti...
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1/9
🤔 Why doesn't an elevated BUN lead to extreme thirst? If increased serum osmolarity compels us to seek water, uremia should be a significant driver of this craving.
And yet, it isn't.
Let's examine why.
🤔 Why doesn't an elevated BUN lead to extreme thirst? If increased serum osmolarity compels us to seek water, uremia should be a significant driver of this craving.
And yet, it isn't.
Let's examine why.
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 AM
1/9
🤔 Why doesn't an elevated BUN lead to extreme thirst? If increased serum osmolarity compels us to seek water, uremia should be a significant driver of this craving.
And yet, it isn't.
Let's examine why.
🤔 Why doesn't an elevated BUN lead to extreme thirst? If increased serum osmolarity compels us to seek water, uremia should be a significant driver of this craving.
And yet, it isn't.
Let's examine why.
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Register today for the Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Conference on Monday, Dec. 9, in DC! We're gathering patients, doctors, researchers, politicians, & funders to raise awareness of #rFSGS, share information, & facilitate funding. www.scgcorp.com/rFSGS2024/Re... #rFSGSConference
November 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Register today for the Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Conference on Monday, Dec. 9, in DC! We're gathering patients, doctors, researchers, politicians, & funders to raise awareness of #rFSGS, share information, & facilitate funding. www.scgcorp.com/rFSGS2024/Re... #rFSGSConference
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The 2025 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Anemia in CKD from KDIGO is out for public review ‼️
#KDIGOAnemiainCKD #Nephpearls #NephSky
🎗️ Less than a week to submit your comments by Nov 22 🗓️
👉 kdigo.org/guidelines/a...
#KDIGOAnemiainCKD #Nephpearls #NephSky
🎗️ Less than a week to submit your comments by Nov 22 🗓️
👉 kdigo.org/guidelines/a...
November 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The 2025 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Anemia in CKD from KDIGO is out for public review ‼️
#KDIGOAnemiainCKD #Nephpearls #NephSky
🎗️ Less than a week to submit your comments by Nov 22 🗓️
👉 kdigo.org/guidelines/a...
#KDIGOAnemiainCKD #Nephpearls #NephSky
🎗️ Less than a week to submit your comments by Nov 22 🗓️
👉 kdigo.org/guidelines/a...
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Honey, stop what you're doing, new hyponatremia research just dropped!
What's it say?
It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay!
Was it just a small study?
No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
What's it say?
It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay!
Was it just a small study?
No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Correction Rates and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Adults With Severe Hyponatremia
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the association of sodium correction rates with mortality among hospitalized adults with severe hyponatremia.
jamanetwork.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Honey, stop what you're doing, new hyponatremia research just dropped!
What's it say?
It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay!
Was it just a small study?
No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
What's it say?
It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay!
Was it just a small study?
No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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If you're interested in learning about the latest of fundamental mycobacteriology, sign up for #GRCMyco2025! Acceptances will start in September, check out the full program and please RT!
We're live with the program!
www.grc.org/biology-of-m...
www.grc.org/biology-of-m...
May 16, 2024 at 11:36 PM
If you're interested in learning about the latest of fundamental mycobacteriology, sign up for #GRCMyco2025! Acceptances will start in September, check out the full program and please RT!
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One of the lessons I learned when I was a #Nephrology fellow (Credit: Dr Murray Levin)
👉🏼 The heart 🫀 is a pre-nephric pump; it supplies blood to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The GI tract provides nutrition to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The brain 🧠 is there to tell you when you have to pee
#Nephpearls #NephSky
👉🏼 The heart 🫀 is a pre-nephric pump; it supplies blood to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The GI tract provides nutrition to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The brain 🧠 is there to tell you when you have to pee
#Nephpearls #NephSky
November 17, 2024 at 1:51 AM
One of the lessons I learned when I was a #Nephrology fellow (Credit: Dr Murray Levin)
👉🏼 The heart 🫀 is a pre-nephric pump; it supplies blood to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The GI tract provides nutrition to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The brain 🧠 is there to tell you when you have to pee
#Nephpearls #NephSky
👉🏼 The heart 🫀 is a pre-nephric pump; it supplies blood to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The GI tract provides nutrition to the #Kidney
👉🏼 The brain 🧠 is there to tell you when you have to pee
#Nephpearls #NephSky
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Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY
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Interesting case of ANCA GN apparently triggered by COVID infection. Also showed concurrent membranous features with MPO+(IHC below) IgG (IF below) deposits as has been described: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... #renalpath #nephrology #pathsky
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Interesting case of ANCA GN apparently triggered by COVID infection. Also showed concurrent membranous features with MPO+(IHC below) IgG (IF below) deposits as has been described: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... #renalpath #nephrology #pathsky