Kaylee Vosbigian
@kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social
Immunology and Infectious Diseases PhD Candidate at WSU 🔬🧫
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Excited to share my first, first-author paper was published in PNAS today!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Last week I had the opportunity to share my research in North Carolina at the Annual American Society for Rickettsiology Meeting. I enjoyed hearing about the current research in the field and connecting with a great community of scientists! #ASR2025
July 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Last week I had the opportunity to share my research in North Carolina at the Annual American Society for Rickettsiology Meeting. I enjoyed hearing about the current research in the field and connecting with a great community of scientists! #ASR2025
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Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack cellular processes in ticks to ensure their survival and spread to new hosts, including humans. #Ticks #TickResearch #WSUVetMed #WSU #GoCougs
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Bacteria hijack tick cell defenses to spread disease
Discovery by WSU researchers may help develop ways of eliminating the infectious bacteria in ticks before they spread to humans.
news.wsu.edu
July 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack cellular processes in ticks to ensure their survival and spread to new hosts, including humans. #Ticks #TickResearch #WSUVetMed #WSU #GoCougs
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Reposted by Kaylee Vosbigian
The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…
The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts' own cellular machinery into accomplices. New research reveals exactly how the microbes behind Lyme disease and anaplasmosis hijack tick biology to fuel their spread.
scienceblog.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…
Excited to share my first, first-author paper was published in PNAS today!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Excited to share my first, first-author paper was published in PNAS today!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Kaylee Vosbigian
Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks
ATF6 enables pathogen infection in ticks by inducing stomatin and altering cholesterol dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.632023v1
January 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks