Björn F.C. Kafsack
@KafsackLab
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Find me at @kafsacklab.bsky.social. Working at the intersection of chromatin, metabolism, and differentiation in apicomplexan parasites/
New York, NY
Joined June 2015
I came to the US as an exchange student when I was 16 and have been here ever since. Finally got my citizenship earlier this year, so at age 47, I got to vote for the first time today. #immigrantstory
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Great collaboration between @GSK Tres Cantos, @WeillCornell and the Sanders Tri-I Therapeutics Discovery Institute. Co-led by Irene Molina at GSK and @RPMansell in @KafsackLab.
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As standard screens for new antimalarials yield diminishing new targets & chemotypes, GSK Tres Cantos used media that mimics nutrients in serum & found many new hits. We then id'ed the targets and, amazingly, all 29 new chemotypes block PSAC!🤯
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Are the @veupathdb blast servers down? .Simple searches that normally take seconds, are still running after 5-10 min.
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Prepared for years putting on the extra weight just so the abdomen looks distended with the blood meal! 😂
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Happy to see this story out in Pathogens today. Not bad for summer internship project. Well done Hermela and @Riward!.
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Malaria parasites have multiple 47S ribosomal RNA genes that differ in length, sequence & expression. Our @WeillCornell ACCESS Summer Student Hermela Samuel & @Riward found that their promoters have very really different responses to RNA Pol I inhibitors 🤯
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RT @ATinyGreenCell: Working on some more community love on this gentle Sunday by writing a tutorial on how I use to….
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RT @striepenlab: It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may we….
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You know its time to stop working on your grant for the day when you use genAI to create a cute hammerhead ribozyme.
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Apparently @WeillCornell Hem-Onc put up a vision board in Belfer 8. @WCMHemOncFellow. No wonder there is no space for new hires.
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Congratulations to Dr. Xinran Tong on an amazing PhD Defense! 🥲🙂↕️ Xinran started @KafsackLab with me and got many of our biggest projects off the ground before joining @adrienne_boire for @WeillCornellGS.
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The density of public transit in Melbourne is truly impressive !.No I just have to try and not get run over by the many 🚍 and 🚋 because I looked the wrong way.
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RT @veupathdb: If you use VEuPathDB resources in your research, acknowledge them with a logo in your oral presentations and posters. Citati….
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