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Emily Bremers
@emilybremers.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Georgia
Studying #malaria 🦟🩸🔬 drug discovery and #metacognition 🧠💡💭 in college biology students.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-0211

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Ever wonder how Leishmania survives in a sand fly’s gut?
We just dropped a preprint where we CRISPR’d our way through the parasite’s transporter genes—and found the VIPs that keep it alive in its insect host. 🧬🦟

Check it out 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Leishmania #sandflies #parasitesrule
Identification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand flies
Leishmania amastigotes ingested by female phlebotomine sand flies are exposed to a harsh and dynamic environment, markedly different from that of their mammalian host. Within the sand fly s alimentary...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Suriname is now certified #malaria-free. It isthe first country in the Amazon region to achieve this by WHO. A result of nearly 70 years of commitment to #HealthEquity and public health.

🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/zpnznvcecl

#EndMalaria #GlobalHealth
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🎉 Join Us for Parasite Day with PiP 2025! 🦠
We are thrilled to announce Parasite Day with PEERs in Parasitology (PiP), on June 27, 2025, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EDT! This virtual symposium will spotlight groundbreaking work in parasitology by scientists from historically excluded backgrounds.
May 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY offers support for students and researchers from high school to postdoctoral levels. Now, due to NIH funding cuts, this one-of-a-kind initiative has been dismantled. My recent story for @science.org
Crucial training pipeline for Deaf scientists dismantled by NIH funding cuts
The one-of-a-kind initiative offered support from high school to postdoctoral levels
www.science.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New publication! We characterized a mechanism of resistance to tetrahydro-beta-carboline antimalarial. We identified this mutation confers stereospecific resistance and is associated with collateral drug sensitivity.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Stereospecific Resistance to N2-Acyl Tetrahydro-β-carboline Antimalarials Is Mediated by a PfMDR1 Mutation That Confers Collateral Drug Sensitivity
Half the world’s population is at risk of developing a malaria infection, which is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Currently, resistance has been identified to all clinically available an...
pubs.acs.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our work on understanding how life science students use metacognition when problem-solving on their own and in groups has been published! We found that students corrected their peers’ thinking more than their own! We offer potential implications for instructors. www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM