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Dr. Pascale Guiton
@pguiton.bsky.social
Assistant Professor
Biology - Works on Toxoplasma gondii
Santa Clara University
Ignorant, cruel, and shortsighted are but a few of the words I have to describe the current administration - they are destroying the fabric of government and who knows what else.
February 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If you are a parasitologist in Northern California, please join us for our annual meeting March 1, 2025, 12-5 pm at SFSU.
Use this link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reg fees: $5 for student; $10 for faculty & others
Please share w/ folks in CA who might be interested
January 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
When your prelim data give you hope but then that hope vanishes on repeat
a man in a superhero costume stands in front of a building that says ' kk industries ' on it
ALT: a man in a superhero costume stands in front of a building that says ' kk industries ' on it
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.
Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines
Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This is happening tomorrow!!!
Please join us Friday 12th at noon EST for Dr. @zamanian.bsky.social seminar at Parasite hour with #PeersInParasitology where he will share his recent work on new targets and strategies for helminth control.
Need a zoom link? Register here: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
December 12, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
🌱 🦠 🔬 Job -- Assistant Professor of Practice in Biotechnology and Plant and Microbial Sciences at University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor of Practice in Biotechnology and Plant and Microbial Sciences
The primary responsibility of this position will be to teach existing undergraduate courses in biotechnology, plant sciences, and microbial sciences, ...
arizona.csod.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines?

Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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December 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
My students created some memes based on topics we covered in Zoonoses and EIDs. These are just a few! Enjoy!
December 12, 2024 at 7:19 AM
I had too much fun in class today! Student end-of-term projects were pretty awesome
1. A board game on Strongyloides
2. A dateline-type show on scabies
3. Podcast with 4 episodes and website on lyme disease
4. a children book on tularemia
5. explainer video on prions
It was awesome!!!
December 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
Beautiful paper from the Elizabeth Winzeler laboratory at UC San Diego out today in Science building a predictive model of malaria drug resistance by analyzing the genomes of 724 parasite genomes evolved in the lab to resist one of 118 different antimalarial compounds

today.ucsd.edu/story/a-new-...
A New Approach to Predicting Malaria Drug Resistance
Researchers at UC San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance.
today.ucsd.edu
December 10, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Join us this Friday!!!
Please join us Friday 12th at noon EST for Dr. @zamanian.bsky.social seminar at Parasite hour with #PeersInParasitology where he will share his recent work on new targets and strategies for helminth control.
Need a zoom link? Register here: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
But please dont share this as a mantra for success. If your success comes at the direct expense of your colleagues because they are doing all the work everyone is supposed to share in, it does not make you ‘successful’ it just makes you a horrible colleague.

Also see peer review

Rant over. For now
December 9, 2024 at 3:26 AM
We have a guest tonight - Found a lost dog (no collar, not neutered) in our neighborhood. Sheltering him for the night; I feel so bad we can't afford to keep him (Ziggy and Bilbo are already very demanding.) It makes me sad to have to surrender him tomorrow.
December 9, 2024 at 3:33 AM
I always have fun including the mascot of the school I am giving a talk at because they are usually warm-blooded animals, thus can be infected with Toxoplasma. Today will be an exception: the mascot is a SHARK!
December 5, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
That's why nothing should be "dogma" in science!! www.forbes.com/sites/willia...
A New Dogma Of Molecular Biology: A Paradigm Shift
A theory that is open-ended with many problems for the redefined group of practitioners to resolve.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:16 AM
People should really do a better job writing the methods and materials section of their manuscript! It is ridiculous to try to repeat someone's experiment and crucial information are missing... Not cool y'all!
December 5, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target

The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.

#nih #research #science #medicine

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Dr. Pascale Guiton
it’s not widely publicized but the minions were designed to represent various medically important protozoan parasites

🦠 🧫 🧪
December 3, 2024 at 4:52 AM
I just finished putting a lecture together on pet-related infections; Ziggy and Bilbo will not receive kisses for a couple of days and will be bathed twice this week!!!
December 2, 2024 at 5:17 AM
It's nice to have a dad who is president!
December 2, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Just got home to the news that Kash Patel will be FBI director... I need to go back into hiding! This is ridiculous!
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Looking forward to one week in the mountains with no phone, limited internet (my goal is to avoid it), and some bears! Hopefully, we'll make it back! Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! One of my neighbors I suppose.
November 23, 2024 at 5:10 PM
I do not enjoy writing personal statements!
November 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM