Olivia Tziouvara, PhD
@oliviatziou.bsky.social
🧬Molecular and Cellular Biologist 🧫 | Confocal Microscopy Specialist🔬| Researcher and Union Advocate for fair wages and equity in science. Dedicated to building a more inclusive and just scientific community ✊🏼
aka Olympia Tziouvara
aka Olympia Tziouvara
Reposted by Olivia Tziouvara, PhD
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
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...
www.biorxiv.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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
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
Tomorrow we strike-but we fight everyday
Research funding cuts is a global phenomenon, but in Greece, after 15 years of austerity, the situation is dire
#science #research #strike #greece
Research funding cuts is a global phenomenon, but in Greece, after 15 years of austerity, the situation is dire
#science #research #strike #greece
"Research in Greece is in prolonged crisis and disarray": Nationwide strike by research workers - The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεόραση
Research workers across Greece, both in research institutes and higher education, have called a nationwide strike for Thursday, 29 May. The strike, organised by unions representing research staff, dem...
thepressproject.gr
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Olivia Tziouvara, PhD
The article suggests there may be not just thousands, but *tens* of thousands, of unrecognized protein-coding genes in the human genome. As a fan of the ENCODE approach to a broad definition of "gene," and a skeptic of "junk DNA," I'll take a great deal of satisfaction if this pans out. 🧪
'But a new systematic analysis of what some call the “dark proteome” suggests scientists have missed thousands of nontraditional genes that lurk in previously overlooked stretches of the genome and make smaller than average proteins.'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Dark proteome’ survey reveals thousands of new human genes
Database confirms that overlooked segments of the genome code for a multitude of tiny proteins
www.science.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:38 AM
The article suggests there may be not just thousands, but *tens* of thousands, of unrecognized protein-coding genes in the human genome. As a fan of the ENCODE approach to a broad definition of "gene," and a skeptic of "junk DNA," I'll take a great deal of satisfaction if this pans out. 🧪