Vasant M
@vasant.bsky.social
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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Interested in Parasitology conferences in 2026? Look no further, check out the list of upcoming conferences on the parasitesrule website:
www.parasitesrule.com/conferences
www.parasitesrule.com/conferences
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Interested in Parasitology conferences in 2026? Look no further, check out the list of upcoming conferences on the parasitesrule website:
www.parasitesrule.com/conferences
www.parasitesrule.com/conferences
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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!
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...
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.
www.nature.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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@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?
✅ 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?
September 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@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?
✅ 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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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!
✅ 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!
September 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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!
✅ 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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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
Please share
#ScienceSavedMe
September 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
Please share
#ScienceSavedMe
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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)
(this got sent to me without a credit on it so happy to add credit if someone knows its origin)
August 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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)
(this got sent to me without a credit on it so happy to add credit if someone knows its origin)
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:
August 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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:
What an amazing abstract!
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What an amazing abstract!
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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
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
bit.ly
August 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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
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
So incredibly idiotic and what a waste. These people are so ignorant and incredibly stupid. They simply can’t comprehend non-transactional HUMAN interactions.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
August 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So incredibly idiotic and what a waste. These people are so ignorant and incredibly stupid. They simply can’t comprehend non-transactional HUMAN interactions.
A small personal update.. it is official today.
August 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A small personal update.. it is official today.
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Cluster hire in ecosystem ecology at UGA! Come join us! 🌎🌱
FOUR TT positions in ecosystem ecology at Odum School of Ecology, 2 aquatic 2 terrestrial, over next 2 years! visit www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/439... for more info.
Assistant Professor in Ecosystem Ecology
The Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia invites applications for four tenure-track positions in Ecosystem Ecology at the Assistant Professor level. These are academic year, 9-month app...
www.ugajobsearch.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cluster hire in ecosystem ecology at UGA! Come join us! 🌎🌱
Idlis. A waste of dosa batter if you ask me. I may get my South Indian card revoked after this.
what's a traditional food of your people/culture that everyone else seems to love that you absolutely cannot stand?
for me it is vada pav. Vada is incredible, pav is fantastic, in combination they cancel each other out and become a black hole of anti-taste
for me it is vada pav. Vada is incredible, pav is fantastic, in combination they cancel each other out and become a black hole of anti-taste
July 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Idlis. A waste of dosa batter if you ask me. I may get my South Indian card revoked after this.
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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...
Check out David Jones' PhD work now on BioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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...
Check out David Jones' PhD work now on BioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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...
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...
June 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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...
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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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!
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!
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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!
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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🚀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.
See expression patterns and get insights with a single click! 🧬🔎
Go to your favorite gene pages and look for “AI Expression Summary” under Transcriptomics.
June 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🚀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.
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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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 ⬇
But you may be worried about what's in them?
So, let’s break it down ⬇
June 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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 ⬇
But you may be worried about what's in them?
So, let’s break it down ⬇
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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 1:51 PM
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
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📹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...
@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...
Gene Page RNAseq Transcriptomic Summary
YouTube video by VEuPathDB
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May 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📹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...
@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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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...
🔎 Explore the data here toxodb.org/toxo/app/sea...
May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
🔎 Explore the data here toxodb.org/toxo/app/sea...
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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...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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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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April 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Come be my colleague! Open-rank tenure-line position(s) in cancer cell bio/pharmacology/biochemistry at Georgetown University apply.interfolio.com/167091 🧪🧬 👩🔬