Isobel Ronai
@isobelronai.bsky.social
Ticks + tick-associated diseases research | Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow of HHMI + Harvard University |
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Isobel Ronai
@isobelronai.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate
Lyme disease affects millions worldwide. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from this insidious illness.
theconversation.com
My last few years of tick and tick-borne diseases research is summed up in this 1,000 word The Conversation article! 'Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate' theconversation.com/tick-managem...
U. Dirnagl on Academic publishing: doom – Or dawn of a new era? Lots of discussion about open access, preprints and AI. #ISTTBD-XVI
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
U. Dirnagl on Academic publishing: doom – Or dawn of a new era? Lots of discussion about open access, preprints and AI. #ISTTBD-XVI
Ticks – genomic insights and anti-microbiota vaccines
#ISTTBD-XVI
#ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ticks – genomic insights and anti-microbiota vaccines
#ISTTBD-XVI
#ISTTBD-XVI
The microbiome of Ixodes ticks session #ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The microbiome of Ixodes ticks session #ISTTBD-XVI
S. A. Muñoz Leal on Tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in South America: past, present and future directions - identification of unique soft tick species and Borrelia in South America. #ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
S. A. Muñoz Leal on Tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in South America: past, present and future directions - identification of unique soft tick species and Borrelia in South America. #ISTTBD-XVI
Sinnecker-Kunz Award
session #ISTTBD-XVI
session #ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sinnecker-Kunz Award
session #ISTTBD-XVI
session #ISTTBD-XVI
Klemen Strle on Immune response in the pathogenesis of Lyme disease - identifying genetic risk factors for host immune response to Borrelia leading to disease #ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Klemen Strle on Immune response in the pathogenesis of Lyme disease - identifying genetic risk factors for host immune response to Borrelia leading to disease #ISTTBD-XVI
Ready for days of ticks! Currently attending the 16th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases #ISTTBD-XVI
March 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ready for days of ticks! Currently attending the 16th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases #ISTTBD-XVI
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3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium.
Baltimore, MD, on April 30, 2025.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research and Education Institute.
mailchi.mp/2e33f32f42bd...
🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬 #MicroSky #TickSky
Baltimore, MD, on April 30, 2025.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research and Education Institute.
mailchi.mp/2e33f32f42bd...
🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬 #MicroSky #TickSky
January 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium.
Baltimore, MD, on April 30, 2025.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research and Education Institute.
mailchi.mp/2e33f32f42bd...
🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬 #MicroSky #TickSky
Baltimore, MD, on April 30, 2025.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research and Education Institute.
mailchi.mp/2e33f32f42bd...
🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬 #MicroSky #TickSky
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Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻
I want to help!
Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached
Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting
Science together is better than alone 🙌
I want to help!
Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached
Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting
Science together is better than alone 🙌
December 8, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻
I want to help!
Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached
Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting
Science together is better than alone 🙌
I want to help!
Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached
Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting
Science together is better than alone 🙌
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The female of the species sporting a funky goaty. #Ixodes_pilosus-group
December 6, 2024 at 8:17 PM
The female of the species sporting a funky goaty. #Ixodes_pilosus-group
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Kennan Oyen & I put together a short summary article on Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, a tick species we often work with in our unit - article is online now in Trends in Parasitology! 🤗
Happy reading! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy reading! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rhipicephalus microplus (Southern cattle tick; Asian blue tick)
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Kennan Oyen & I put together a short summary article on Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, a tick species we often work with in our unit - article is online now in Trends in Parasitology! 🤗
Happy reading! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy reading! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
journals.biologists.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
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Do your walls need bugs? I've put a selection of my photographs on sale for the holidays, up to 70% off regular fine art prices.
Holiday Sale 2024 - Alex Wild
A selection of photographs discounted up to 70% off regular fine art prices until January 5, 2025. Explore various mounting and framing options in checkout.
www.alexanderwild.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Do your walls need bugs? I've put a selection of my photographs on sale for the holidays, up to 70% off regular fine art prices.
Reposted by Isobel Ronai
Probably you are looking for a collection of papers on ticks and pathogens. I curate manually this collection and I continue updating it. Now with more than 14,000 (downloadable) papers. Just give it a chance and tell me about, please.
www.scienceopen.com/collection/d...
www.scienceopen.com/collection/d...
Ticks and tick-borne pathogens
<p>This collection is focused on the research of ticks and tick-transmitted pathogens. It aims to include papers on a wide variety of disciplines related to ticks and the pathogens they transmit, focu...
www.scienceopen.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Probably you are looking for a collection of papers on ticks and pathogens. I curate manually this collection and I continue updating it. Now with more than 14,000 (downloadable) papers. Just give it a chance and tell me about, please.
www.scienceopen.com/collection/d...
www.scienceopen.com/collection/d...
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It is curious that Mediterranean rabbits have monoxenous ticks like Rhipicephalus pusillus (right), Haemaphysalis hispanica (left) or Ixodes ventalloi. Probably consequences of relict endemism in last glaciation refugia (picture by Carlos Pradera)
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
It is curious that Mediterranean rabbits have monoxenous ticks like Rhipicephalus pusillus (right), Haemaphysalis hispanica (left) or Ixodes ventalloi. Probably consequences of relict endemism in last glaciation refugia (picture by Carlos Pradera)
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When did insects first show up in art? The earliest example was carved into a bison bone dated to 15,000 years ago (!) found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France. It shows a cave cricket which probably represents Troglophilus, a genus not found in the region in the present day. 🦗🎨 #bugsky
November 27, 2024 at 12:24 AM
When did insects first show up in art? The earliest example was carved into a bison bone dated to 15,000 years ago (!) found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France. It shows a cave cricket which probably represents Troglophilus, a genus not found in the region in the present day. 🦗🎨 #bugsky
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We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.
November 23, 2024 at 6:14 PM
We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.
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Hello to all my new and re-found friends! If you don’t know who I am, I am the insect curator at UT Austin, a former Peace Corps volunteer, and a longtime freelance nature photographer.
Portfolio - Alex Wild
Insect Photography by Alex Wild
www.alexanderwild.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Hello to all my new and re-found friends! If you don’t know who I am, I am the insect curator at UT Austin, a former Peace Corps volunteer, and a longtime freelance nature photographer.
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Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. @baylism.bsky.social payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...
UK VBD Conference 2024 | University of Liverpool
The threat to the UK from vector-borne diseases is rising at astonishing pace. Mosquito and tick species have invaded; Usutu virus is present; Lyme disease
payments.liv.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. @baylism.bsky.social payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619921v1
Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619921v1
Ticks are a major health threat to humans and other animals, through direct damage, toxicoses, and t
www.biorxiv.org
October 25, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619921v1
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The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584159v1
The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584159v1
Ticks are obligate blood-feeding parasites associated with a huge diversity of diseases globally. Th
www.biorxiv.org
March 14, 2024 at 9:39 AM
The repetitive genome of the Ixodes ricinus tick reveals transposable elements have driven genome evolution in ticks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.13.584159v1
My last few years of tick and tick-borne diseases research is summed up in this 1,000 word The Conversation article! 'Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate' theconversation.com/tick-managem...
Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate
Lyme disease affects millions worldwide. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from this insidious illness.
theconversation.com
October 8, 2023 at 1:23 AM
My last few years of tick and tick-borne diseases research is summed up in this 1,000 word The Conversation article! 'Tick management programs could help stop Lyme disease, but US funding is inadequate' theconversation.com/tick-managem...