Mostafa Zamanian
@zamanian.bsky.social
Associate Prof @uwmadison.bsky.social
Pomegranates, soccer, and chess keep me marginally functional. My views, often at odds with those of my employer.
zamanianlab.org
Pomegranates, soccer, and chess keep me marginally functional. My views, often at odds with those of my employer.
zamanianlab.org
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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
In Madison, if someone honks their horn, it’s probably an accident. And if it isn’t, treating it like one gives them the time they need to quietly regret their out-of-towner energy.
October 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In Madison, if someone honks their horn, it’s probably an accident. And if it isn’t, treating it like one gives them the time they need to quietly regret their out-of-towner energy.
Relatable. I once went off-grid for a bit, checked my email, and discovered a dozen frantic messages informing me I’d forgotten to renew my lease and had to immediately fly back and clear out my apartment. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains
Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband
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October 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Relatable. I once went off-grid for a bit, checked my email, and discovered a dozen frantic messages informing me I’d forgotten to renew my lease and had to immediately fly back and clear out my apartment. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
I commend Tao for speaking out, but it needs to be said that only speaking up when personally affected by a policy is part of the reason we are in this mess to begin with. At the institutional level, this has signified a willingness to trade away other people’s rights to protect one’s own share.
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I commend Tao for speaking out, but it needs to be said that only speaking up when personally affected by a policy is part of the reason we are in this mess to begin with. At the institutional level, this has signified a willingness to trade away other people’s rights to protect one’s own share.
Bar has a Boris Spassky portrait, obliged to order a White Russian.
July 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Bar has a Boris Spassky portrait, obliged to order a White Russian.
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This is really cool! A rabies vaccine, applied as a gel to fur, spreads quickly among bats as they lick and groom each other. That prevents rabies outbreaks in other animals. www.science.org/content/arti...
Vampire bats' mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine
A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America
www.science.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is really cool! A rabies vaccine, applied as a gel to fur, spreads quickly among bats as they lick and groom each other. That prevents rabies outbreaks in other animals. www.science.org/content/arti...
Neat profile of a recent preprint led by a grad student in our lab, Cole Knuese, on orotopical rabies vaccination strategies in wild bat populations. Left field of most of what we do, but holds some promise!
Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine
A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America
www.science.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Neat profile of a recent preprint led by a grad student in our lab, Cole Knuese, on orotopical rabies vaccination strategies in wild bat populations. Left field of most of what we do, but holds some promise!
Exploration of miracidia sensory biology with a powerful imaging platform.
Very excited and proud to release a project that I’ve been thinking about for at least 7 years, well before I started my faculty position. We built an imaging and computational platform from the ground up to help answer some outstanding questions in schistosome miracidia biology.
Quantitative ethology of schistosome miracidia characterizes a conserved snail peptide that inhibits penetration
Over 700 million people are at risk of contracting schistosomiasis due to regular exposure to freshwater sources where infected snails, the obligate intermediate hosts of schistosomes, are endemic. Al...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Exploration of miracidia sensory biology with a powerful imaging platform.
4 am thunderstorm check-in
July 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
4 am thunderstorm check-in
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1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
As part of the UW RISE-THRIVE faculty hiring initiative, our college is advertising three tenure-track positions focused on immunology, aging, and health span. Please share! rise.wisc.edu/rise-thrive/ #ttjobs
RISE-THRIVE
UW–Madison is internationally known for our research on the complex human immune system, healthy aging and the social contexts and lifestyles that allow people to not just live but to thrive. RISE-THR...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As part of the UW RISE-THRIVE faculty hiring initiative, our college is advertising three tenure-track positions focused on immunology, aging, and health span. Please share! rise.wisc.edu/rise-thrive/ #ttjobs
Came in this morning (my 40th birthday) to see my office and our lab thematically decorated with parasites! Dune vibes. The spice must flow, but ideally not past 50 µM.
May 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Came in this morning (my 40th birthday) to see my office and our lab thematically decorated with parasites! Dune vibes. The spice must flow, but ideally not past 50 µM.
Numbers continue to grow. (5x speed)
April 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Numbers continue to grow. (5x speed)
Strutting with the confidence of $7 eggs.
April 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Strutting with the confidence of $7 eggs.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
Fancy new wrmXpress GUI led by @wheelerlab.bio undergrads and a significantly updated backend (v2).
Very excited to release the first project from my lab, an update of wrmXpress with a graphical user interface:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A graphical user interface for wrmXpress 2.0 streamlines helminth phenotypic screening
Image-based phenotypic screening is a fundamental technique used to better understand the basic biology of helminths and advance discovery of new anthelmintics. Miniaturization of screening platforms ...
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March 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Fancy new wrmXpress GUI led by @wheelerlab.bio undergrads and a significantly updated backend (v2).
White to play and mate in 12. Beautiful puzzle.
February 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
White to play and mate in 12. Beautiful puzzle.
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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Welcome Dr. Nita Ahuja to UW-Madison! Thrilled to have you lead the School of Medicine and Public Health at this pivotal moment. news.wisc.edu/dr-nita-ahuj...
Dr. Nita Ahuja named dean of UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Ahuja is a cancer-care innovator whose treatment approaches and research have garnered international recognition. She’s also a proven leader and administrator with a track record for bringing multidis...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Welcome Dr. Nita Ahuja to UW-Madison! Thrilled to have you lead the School of Medicine and Public Health at this pivotal moment. news.wisc.edu/dr-nita-ahuj...
These days, Darth Vader feels like middle management.
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
These days, Darth Vader feels like middle management.
Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Clair Henthorn! Her dissertation is a whirlwind of significant contributions to the fundamental questions that motivate our lab. Her talents and creativity will enrich whatever environment or goal she chooses next. #proudPI
January 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Clair Henthorn! Her dissertation is a whirlwind of significant contributions to the fundamental questions that motivate our lab. Her talents and creativity will enrich whatever environment or goal she chooses next. #proudPI