Aitor Casas-Sanchez
@aitorcasass
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Lecturer/Group Leader at @LSTMnews | Molecular and Cellular (Glyco)Biology of Viruses, Parasites, and Vectors.
Liverpool
Joined December 2010
Proud to see my microscopy image in the cover of this month’s Nature Microbiology issue @NatureMicrobiol !!
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Wohoo amazing news to see VeuPathDB and rest of DBs back online and this quick! Such an important tool for so many scientist which was recently lost, but thanks to new donors, the great parasitology/vector biology community, and staff has been saved💪🏼💪🏼🥳🥳.
Welcome back! VEuPathDB resources are back online today! We will continue to provide bioinformatics services under a new organizational structure. Read more here:
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Today Adam Winrow and Nick Heavey, my amazing MRes students this course, had their viva🎓🎓 Sorry to say they are already taken… Adam’s starting his PhD next month (not with us unfortunately) and Nick is staying as an RA!
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Counted T. congolense BSF attached to a Petri dish accurately. Will post about brucei BSF and PCR hopefully soon.
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Mindblown 🤯🤯🤯 by the new MilliCell automated cell counter I just got for the lab @merckgroup. Should have bought this years ago! Super accurate count in haemocytometer and confluency estimate in directly in flask. 1000% recommended!!
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BoP will miss you Freddy (aka Our King)! Not only the whales gave you a proper farewell👀🥳
Thanks so much for having me @MBLScience @MBLScience for so many times since 2001. Leaving a wonderful course with heartfelt gratitude for the many people I had the pleasure and privilege to meet. Glad to know @RealJimCollins1 will take over. Keep on rocking #parasites forever.
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RT @GoffinetLab: 📢Postdoc position (2 years) now available in my team. If you would like to investigate #alphavirus infection in human and….
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Just had an incredible day at @HarvardChanSPH presenting my group’s work. Many thanks #CatterucciaLab for being wonderful hosts and @HarvardIID for the invitation!
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RT @luisamfigueired: Looking for a #PhDposition in Lisbon at @IMMolecular? Every year, the LisbonBiomed program brings together a fantastic….
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Thrilled to finally see our paper characterising the new family of trypanosome surface proteins MISP out in @PLOSPathogens! Thanks to @AAcostaserrano, collaborators, @LSTMnews and @Mariecurie_alum.
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Author summary The Trypanosoma brucei group of parasites are exclusively transmitted to the vertebrate host by the tsetse vector alongside insect saliva. To better understand trypanosome transmissi...
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Exciting opportunity for a Research Assistant to join my lab at @LSTMnews. Help us understand the dual activity of glycosylation inhibitors against arboviruses and SARS-CoV-2! PLEASE RT! #jobsearch #AcademicChatter
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RT @alena_zikova: Please RT: Two open PhD positions in the framework of our ERC Cons 2022 grant exploring mitochondrial signaling in cell….
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#Glycoscience is on the news! Big congratulations to @CarolynBertozzi and the others for winning the @NobelPrize in Chemistry today!.
BREAKING NEWS: .The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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After co-supervising @yaimie_lopez91‘s MSc thesis at @LSTMnews , I vouch for her 100%. Yaimie is very clever, independent, enthusiastic and hard-working💪🏽. You won’t go wrong with her!.
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RT @EvaHeinz7: Job alert! Since our brilliant @vectorvish is off to new adventures with a PhD scholarship @LSTMnews (congratulations again!….
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RT @ThornLab: What does the Coronavirus really look like?.How we developed the most accurate model of SARS-CoV-2: A thread 🧵(1/12).
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RT @albuquerqueafrr: Join us for the “Gene editing and regulation of protozoan parasites and their vectors workshop” webinar and hands-on,….
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Feeling SUPER PROUD of this crowd right now. Working hard till late on tomorrow’s end of module presentation @MBLBoP @AAcostaserrano #bop22
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