Lianne Lansink PhD
@liannelansink.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Faria Lab at the University of York. Working on antigenic variation in African trypanosomes. PhD in Immunology/Parasitology. My views are my own.
Reposted by Lianne Lansink PhD
Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...
How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine
Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”
www.quantamagazine.org
May 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...
Super proud to have this work out there! Big thanks to Joana and all the co-authors.
So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk
Specialised RNA decay fine-tunes monogenic antigen expression in African trypanosomes
Antigenic variation is a sophisticated immune evasion strategy employed by many pathogens. Trypanosoma brucei expresses a single Variant-Surface-Glycoprotein (VSG) from a large genetic repertoire, whi...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Super proud to have this work out there! Big thanks to Joana and all the co-authors.
Reposted by Lianne Lansink PhD
So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk
Specialised RNA decay fine-tunes monogenic antigen expression in African trypanosomes
Antigenic variation is a sophisticated immune evasion strategy employed by many pathogens. Trypanosoma brucei expresses a single Variant-Surface-Glycoprotein (VSG) from a large genetic repertoire, whi...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk