Scientist, Virologist, Mosquito-borne pathogens. Views are my own 🇮🇳 🇦🇺 mosquito 🦟 🦠
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Generative AI agents are transforming biology research: high resolution functional genome annotation for multiscale understanding of life.
Life is inherently multimodal and AI has shown a remarkable capability at helping infer that!
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🦟❓How do mosquitoes respond to a bloodmeal at the #SingleCell level ? Please have a look at pre-print biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… and website aedes-cell-atlas.pasteur.clo… to find out and look at your favorite cells and genes ! #Aedesaegypti
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A new World Health Organization's study has identified 17 pathogens as top priorities for new vaccine development
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Identifying WHO global priority endemic pathogens for vaccine research and development (R&D) using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA): an objective of the Immunization Agenda 2030 - eBioMedicine https://
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Hasso-Agopsowicz 2024 et al thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…
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Pakistan has seen a recent rise in Chikungunya cases, with local experts citing that high temperatures, combined with rainfall, have created more favourable breeding conditions for the Aedes mosquitoes that carry the virus.
Read more in the @Telegraph:
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Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?
#dengue #GlobalHealth
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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking health threats from inaction @WHO @DrMariaNeira thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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#oropouche @Antonio33716006
Given the complex interactions between climate change, env. modification, urban growth &human mobility, lack of effective surveillance will continue to facilitate the (re-)emergence of pathogens with potential epidemic capacity
Prasad Paradkar retweeted
We are looking for a Scientific Coordinator for our work in Nicaragua through the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Please spread the word and apply using this link: forms.gle/3rHw6aXrr6GBivaN6
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🦟 Dr. Anthony Fauci shares his harrowing experience with West Nile virus, highlighting the urgent need for more resources to combat this threat. Let’s prioritize public health! 🌍 #WestNileVirus @CDCgov @NIH
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Fantastic new paper by @laurabduvall and colleagues:
Mosquitoes deciding when during their day to bite you:
Circadian modulation of mosquito host-seeking persistence by Pigment-Dispersing Factor impacts daily biting patterns biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Prasad Paradkar retweeted
Excellent news: #India has eliminated #trachoma, a debilitating disease which previously afflicted millions in 🇮🇳.
Congratulations to health workers, communities, the government and partners who collaborated to make it possible. #RC77 @narendramodi
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Fluorescent-based sex-separation technique in major invasive crop pest, Drosophila suzukii biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Yrs ago RME handed me 30 papers on #OROV n said, 'learn everything'. It felt like no one was as concerned about OROV as us n our Brazilian colleagues. Now, as a #newPI, I study it again amid a concerning outbreak. Here's my review on what we know so far - go.shr.lc/4eNfzVM
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If you're following the #Marburg outbreak in Rwanda, this thread provides critical context.
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Global upsurge in dengue in 2024 - The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
@TheLancet
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Wolbachia infected mosquitoes are now going to be released by Oxitec! See here: sparking-joy.com