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Ali Gouch
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A happy immunoparasitologist in training - Ph.D. candidate and artist studying host responses to Plasmodium infection. views are my own :)

I bring a sort of Flow Cytometry vibe to the Western Blot function.
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Ali Gouch @ubalubi.bsky.social · Oct 8
maybe you've seen the anime "Cells at Work!"... i love the idea of humanizing the body's immune cells as a storytelling mechanism, so have my drawing of me as a Commander Helper T cell with a latte and morning CH&M article 📝☕️
a self-portrait of me dressed as Commander Helper T cell from the anime series "Cells at Work!". Sitting in a chair with a latte in a green mug and wearing purple CD4 Hoka shoes. Top right: "Helper T Cell: Top left: "Pumpkin Chai Latte, Tea for a T cell" Bottom left: "Business as Usual (no TCR stim yet). Bottom Middle: "CD4+, What are those..."
ubalubi.bsky.social
maybe you've seen the anime "Cells at Work!"... i love the idea of humanizing the body's immune cells as a storytelling mechanism, so have my drawing of me as a Commander Helper T cell with a latte and morning CH&M article 📝☕️
a self-portrait of me dressed as Commander Helper T cell from the anime series "Cells at Work!". Sitting in a chair with a latte in a green mug and wearing purple CD4 Hoka shoes. Top right: "Helper T Cell: Top left: "Pumpkin Chai Latte, Tea for a T cell" Bottom left: "Business as Usual (no TCR stim yet). Bottom Middle: "CD4+, What are those..."
October 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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coffee + reading a paper before work = +1 mental health?
latte in a black mug, ipad with a Cell Host & Microbe article downloaded, flowers in a vase, windows in the background looking upon downtown city streets = immaculate vibes
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Our 2025 October issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews Malaria transmission rhythms, anti-CSP antibody-mediated sporozoite neutralization, Toxoplasma endodyogeny, bacterial RNAi for mosquito control, onchocerciasis diagnostic challenges, Mansonella perstans, ectoparasites in environmental monitoring, & more
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Our 2025 Sep issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews species sanitation & structural resilience in malaria control, animal trypanosomosis control, parasite genome organization, Leishmania attachment in sandflies, nonchemotherapeutic nematode control, tick & host microbiotas, parasitic neural manipulation &more
September 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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wow, today I presented this intriguing research article in journal club, and I'm excited to say that this baby parasitologist (🙋🏼‍♀️) has finally found another favorite subject in an unexpected field -

www.cell.com/developmenta...
Vimentin intermediate filaments coordinate actin stress fibers and podosomes to determine the extracellular matrix degradation by macrophages
Huang et al. demonstrate that the intermediate filaments protein vimentin orchestrates actin stress fibers and podosomes, thereby facilitating efficient extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation via inte...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Our 2025 August issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews Trypanosoma cruzi cAMP compartments, Plasmodium apicoplast transportome, malaria transmission-blocking solutions, microbe-based mosquito control, miRNA-based cystic echinococcosis management, East Coast fever mRNA vaccines, & more
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Finishing up a poster route with science activism posters and remaining native plant posters. Perfect night for a stroll around the neighborhood.

The plant poster project is wrapped for the year but you can get the activism posters at squidfacts.bigcartel.com
A poster with a microscope shows a field of microbes that have all arranged themselves to say “funding science saves lives” and a big ol QR that says “scan to learn more”, stapled to a telephone pole on a city street
May 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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first time making bagels worked out, I think

should I finish my Ph.D. or open a bakery café?
A strawberry rosemary bagel I made this morning, made from strawberries from a local farm in Arkansas. Also made strawberry cream cheese from those strawberries. Background features some plants and a sunny morning window. Foreground text reads: "🍓 from The Cabot Patch." Fresh-out-tha-oven bagels this morning. From a 48-hour dough. All are strawberry bagels, but some have rosemary and salt, some are poppy, and some are plain.
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
A bouquet of golden oyster mushrooms grows from an underground root among the grass at the edge of a maple forest. All photos by me
May 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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My painting GOLDEN HAY BALES
May 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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wood's end
gouache painting of a deer standing at the edge of the dark woods, looking out to a sunny horizon covered in colorful hills
May 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Therapist: 10 flow cytometry panels can't hurt you

Me: u right

10 flow cytometry panels: 🤕
A selfie of me with 5 U-bottom 96-well plates across my arm like one of those money flex pics The carnage of 28 hours of flow cytometry - many used pipette tips in a waste bag, pipette tip boxes, used gloves, several many flow antibodies, 5 96-well plates, and lab notes on a lab bench.
May 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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how lucky am I to live somewhere green
I am always thrilled to look at this little bit of water in the foreground, with a tiny bit of dirt and rocks large enough to support the growth of a bush of some kind. Trees and long grasses behind it. I like rocks and water together. It's a good combo. Natural grass and trees and about-to-set sunlight.
May 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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indie bookstore for the win
I'm holding up two books in front of a cute brick shop called Paper Hearts bookstore. The books are "Braiding Sweetgrass" and "The Serviceberry," both authored by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
April 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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farm fresh, thanks arkansas
A friggin' lot of strawberries. I bit into a fresh strawberry, and there was a prize inside. Extra protein!
April 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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First morning pre-conference accomplishments:

✔️ support local coffee shop

✔️ talk with some locals and learn a lot

✔️ freeze balls off in beautiful rainy windy weather
A wanted poster for seaturtle sightings on a wooden post. I'm on a dock acting a fool. Railroad Ave. street sign, and the back of a road sign with a lot of street art stickers on it! Pie in the Sky Bakery ambiance.
April 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A little latte in the morning is essential for my microbiome 🦠☕️
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This was fun to paint. Inspired by coastal marshes in the lowcountry. The richly saturated jewel tones stand out nicely against the dark grass making for a dramatic scene. I hope you enjoy the results!

TIDAL WETLANDS, 16x16”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil
April 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A river in the forest
A small river running through a vibrant pine forest surrounded by forest foliage
April 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Our 2025 April issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews cerebral manifestations of falciparum #malaria, #mosquito repellents, cross-species immune activation for #VBD control, #Theileria annulata-transformed macrophages, in vitro culture & gene editing for #babesiosis research, the #XI-ISFP meeting, & more
April 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Whoaoaoa just learned I was accepted for an oral presentation at a RAPIDLY APPROACHING CONFERENCE 🎉

no! sleep! 'til Boston!
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Lucy Grossmith art always good to see
March 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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gotta appreciate little successes in research - my histology slides look really pretty 🐁🛝🎨

(I can conclude nothing further about the slides, as I am not a trained pathologist lol).
March 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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feeling excited for spring and felt inspired to draw some plants (and bugs of course)

#bugsky
illustration of Midwest prairie plants with different insects on them, including different life stages of monarch butterflies, a beetle, a wasp and a bee. text below the artwork says “protect local pollinators”
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM