Tea Tomita
@teagondii.bsky.social
Studying Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall filament network. Weiss Lab. Opinions expressed are solely my brain parasites' and do not represent my own.
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
Cryptosporidium oocyst wall proteins are true components of the oocyst wall and COWP8 is not required for parasite transmission
Author summary Infection with Cryptosporidium causes diarrhoea, which can be fatal for malnourished children or people who are immunocompromised. There is no vaccine or effective medicines available t...
journals.plos.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation
Reposted by Tea Tomita
⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
OGA - Only Good Antibodies Community
onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
Reposted by Tea Tomita
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!
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!
September 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Tea Tomita
I was interviewed by Josh Learn for DISCOVER magazine to discuss the fascinating (and surprisingly common) parasite Toxoplasma gondii
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
www.discovermagazine.com/this-cat-par...
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
www.discovermagazine.com/this-cat-par...
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
A cat parasite in humans? Discover more about a cat parasite called toxoplasmosis and its complex life cycle that can infect nearly every warm-blooded animal on the planet.
www.discovermagazine.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I was interviewed by Josh Learn for DISCOVER magazine to discuss the fascinating (and surprisingly common) parasite Toxoplasma gondii
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
www.discovermagazine.com/this-cat-par...
This Cat Parasite Can Infect Humans, and You Can Get It From Litter Boxes or Unwashed Veggies
www.discovermagazine.com/this-cat-par...
Anyone?
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Anyone?
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Honoured & grateful to have received an MPM Travel Grant and have the opportunity to present my PhD research at my first MPM 🇺🇸
Amazing science, inspiring discussions & a fantastic community of parasitologists – what a milestone in my journey. @parasitesrule.org
#MPM2025 #Parasitology
Amazing science, inspiring discussions & a fantastic community of parasitologists – what a milestone in my journey. @parasitesrule.org
#MPM2025 #Parasitology
September 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Honoured & grateful to have received an MPM Travel Grant and have the opportunity to present my PhD research at my first MPM 🇺🇸
Amazing science, inspiring discussions & a fantastic community of parasitologists – what a milestone in my journey. @parasitesrule.org
#MPM2025 #Parasitology
Amazing science, inspiring discussions & a fantastic community of parasitologists – what a milestone in my journey. @parasitesrule.org
#MPM2025 #Parasitology
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
We are hiring. Please RT 🙏
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
September 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We are hiring. Please RT 🙏
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
September 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
[We are Hiring!]
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.
This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.
DM for more info!
Reposted by Tea Tomita
🧬 Scientists led by Prof. Petr Volf at the Department of Parasitology discovered key proteins behind Leishmania transmission, a step toward reducing this disease affecting hundreds of thousands globally 🌍💡
More here: 1url.cz/3Jjac
More here: 1url.cz/3Jjac
Midgut and stomodeal valve attachment of Leishmania in sand flies
Leishmania development in sand flies involves critical attachment steps to the midgut
epithelium and the stomodeal valve, mediated by parasite- and vector-derived molecules.
Initial midgut attachment ...
1url.cz
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🧬 Scientists led by Prof. Petr Volf at the Department of Parasitology discovered key proteins behind Leishmania transmission, a step toward reducing this disease affecting hundreds of thousands globally 🌍💡
More here: 1url.cz/3Jjac
More here: 1url.cz/3Jjac
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Join me on 16 Sept 8-9 AM (Boston time Zone i.e. 3 PM KSA) as I present my R package on how to access VEuPathDB component databases and several other database virtually in MPM XXXVI conference.
rohit-satyam.github.io/plasmoRUtils...
#plasmodium #pathogen
@veupathdb.org @parasitesrule.org
rohit-satyam.github.io/plasmoRUtils...
#plasmodium #pathogen
@veupathdb.org @parasitesrule.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Join me on 16 Sept 8-9 AM (Boston time Zone i.e. 3 PM KSA) as I present my R package on how to access VEuPathDB component databases and several other database virtually in MPM XXXVI conference.
rohit-satyam.github.io/plasmoRUtils...
#plasmodium #pathogen
@veupathdb.org @parasitesrule.org
rohit-satyam.github.io/plasmoRUtils...
#plasmodium #pathogen
@veupathdb.org @parasitesrule.org
Reposted by Tea Tomita
The @veupathdb.org team is excited to be attending the MPM conference this week!
💬 Stop by our booth to chat with us
⌨️ Participate in our User Comments campaign- share your knowledge on gene pages and pick up your free "Got Parasites?" mug at the booth: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
💬 Stop by our booth to chat with us
⌨️ Participate in our User Comments campaign- share your knowledge on gene pages and pick up your free "Got Parasites?" mug at the booth: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The @veupathdb.org team is excited to be attending the MPM conference this week!
💬 Stop by our booth to chat with us
⌨️ Participate in our User Comments campaign- share your knowledge on gene pages and pick up your free "Got Parasites?" mug at the booth: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
💬 Stop by our booth to chat with us
⌨️ Participate in our User Comments campaign- share your knowledge on gene pages and pick up your free "Got Parasites?" mug at the booth: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
Reposted by Tea Tomita
New online! New Cryptosporidium parvum fitness factor
New Cryptosporidium parvum fitness factor
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01241-3A new study by Huang et al. identifies a Cryptosporidium parvum ABC transporter that confers resistance to a toxic gut microbial metabolite.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
New online! New Cryptosporidium parvum fitness factor
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Favorite time of the year!
September 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Favorite time of the year!
Our latest publication in mBio!
We used the DSBSO crosslinker to map a Toxoplasma gondii interactome. By leveraging previously known biological features, we trained a machine learning model to filter out mediocre hits and strengthen the quality of the interactome.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
We used the DSBSO crosslinker to map a Toxoplasma gondii interactome. By leveraging previously known biological features, we trained a machine learning model to filter out mediocre hits and strengthen the quality of the interactome.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
September 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Our latest publication in mBio!
We used the DSBSO crosslinker to map a Toxoplasma gondii interactome. By leveraging previously known biological features, we trained a machine learning model to filter out mediocre hits and strengthen the quality of the interactome.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
We used the DSBSO crosslinker to map a Toxoplasma gondii interactome. By leveraging previously known biological features, we trained a machine learning model to filter out mediocre hits and strengthen the quality of the interactome.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Toxoplasma facing career options:
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
Redirecting
doi.org
August 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Toxoplasma facing career options:
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
It's getting more and more dystopian here. And no one is talking about this.
ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's getting more and more dystopian here. And no one is talking about this.
Reposted by Tea Tomita
ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.
July 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.
Very useful 😀
In my quest for an everything-proof marker I found this brilliant Reddit thread where somebody systematically tested several ones with 70%EtOH, water bath and for smudginess 😍 not all heroes wear capes! #lablife www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...
July 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Very useful 😀
Reposted by Tea Tomita
So, I emailed the link:
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people.
I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks.
5/n
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people.
I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks.
5/n
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So, I emailed the link:
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people.
I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks.
5/n
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people.
I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks.
5/n
Reposted by Tea Tomita
Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀
Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
June 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀
Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Reposted by Tea Tomita
The anticipation is over, the MPM registration and abstract submission is open!!
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
🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
June 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The anticipation is over, the MPM registration and abstract submission is open!!
Reposted by Tea Tomita
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
