Postdoctoral Fellow in the Casadevall Lab at Johns Hopkins School of School of Public Health - @BioRender Ambassador
Joined October 2018
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3 Aug 2022
Check out our new review advocating for the creating of Disaster Microbiology as a new field of study and reviewing some of the years of extraordinary research showing how disasters shape microbe populations. @ACasadevall1 (1/) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Visiting @Symbionticism was greeted with a package of starburst candy thanks to @markowenmartin who told him about using these to collect fungi from Baltimore sidewalks. However, all credit goes to highly innovative @Danfqsmith who thought of this - see pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4114…
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“This study opens the door for future research into these adaptations & the identification of urban fungal species that may emerge as potential human pathogens in the near future,” said @JohnsHopkinsSPH researcher & @ACasadevall1 Lab member @Danfqsmith
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5 Nov 2025
Very excited to finally share our recent article studying fungal adaptation to high temperature in warmer and cooler neighborhoods of Baltimore! doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf1…
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2 Sep 2025
HHS leaders continue to claim everyone can get a COVID vaccine, but FDA's new rules require the “low risk” to consult a doctor first. With 11% of Americans lacking a healthcare provider (per HHS’s own data), this policy and claim ignores real access barriers.
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2 Sep 2025
Last week my first author research article in the malaria field was published in nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
What a exciting and challenging journey @JohnsHopkinsMMI May this be the first of may more- looking forward to reading your comments and questions✨
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MMI PhD Candidate Gracen Gerbig who's training in the lab of @JohnsHopkinsMMI dept chair & @JohnsHopkinsSPH & @JHU_BDPs Arturo Casadevall @ACasadevall1 defends her PhD thesis today!
Thursday, June 5
Paige Hall
1:00 p.m.
#Cryptococcus neoformans
#fungi
Good Luck, Gracen!
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27 Mar 2025
Fun project that started with looking at whether or not there is chaos during Galleria infections, and wound up also finding some interesting patterns that occur of infection (and lots of mesmerizing timelapses) @ACasadevall1
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13 Feb 2025
Would global warming bring an increase of invertebrate-associated cutaneous invasive fungal infections? @ACasadevall1 #mBio
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13 Feb 2025
Excited to announce a save the date for the upcoming Keystone Fungal Pathogenesis meeting! Jan 12-15 2026, mark your calendars! 🗓 Program and deadlines in link below #KSFungalPath26 @IlievLab
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28 Oct 2024
This is great! @NIAIDNews have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
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23 Oct 2024
When my paper gets referenced once
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22 Oct 2024
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Jay Vyas, as our new Assoc. Dean for Academic Innovation & Director of Physician-Scientist Programs at the Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science. He'll also join the Division of Infectious Diseases in @CUIMCDeptofMed.
columbiamed.link/3YdlLPR
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12 Oct 2024
Disaster microbiology explores how microbiology relates to catastrophic events like hurricanes. In the wakes of #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton, how can we prepare to face the microbial aftermath of these natural disasters? asm.social/28t
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3 Oct 2024
A bad day for the dinosaurs turned out to be a pretty good day for ants.
According to a new study led by Smithsonian entomologist and curator Ted Schultz, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. Read more: s.si.edu/47QDtNK
ALT Three people pictured in in the Chapecó National Forest in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, excavating nests of the rare lower-fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper. Entomologist Ted Schultz (center), the curator of ants at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, sits between Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo (left) and Ana Ješovnik (right). Image from Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo.
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In this fun & fascinating @NPRShortWave segment co-hosts @emilykwong1234 & @ScienceRegina visit @ACasadevall1's Lab @JohnsHopkinsSPH
Listen & learn about fungi & how @Danfqsmith uses Starbursts on Baltimore sidewalks to test how fungi adapt to heat
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20 Sep 2024
When your experiment goes so badly that the universe sends you ~96 evil eyes for protection 🧿🧿🧿
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20 Aug 2024
Everytime I grow molds, feel compelled to tweet how pretty they are
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20 Aug 2024
the cells on the microscopy slide I messed up staring at me from the trash
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