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After 10 years, my position at Weill Cornell has officially come to an end at the begging of the month. I am so grateful for the amazing people who spend time in my lab during the last decade and extremely proud of their work.
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I feel extremely grateful to have been part of our amazing parasitology community for the last 25 years and for the many friends, collaborators, and colleagues I met along the way. ♥️
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The government shutdown and the administration’s continued antipathy towards higher education and research, especially on infectious disease & global health, have severely limited the chances for funding here.
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While Weill Cornell has always been supportive during my time there, this meant that there was no bridge funding available from the university and as an Associate Professor I didn’t yet have tenure at Cornell.
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Unfortunately, my grants ran out right while Weill Cornell Medicine had a $100M annual deficit followed by Trump’s subsequent suspension of NIH & NSF payments to Cornell.
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None of this would have been possible for the amazing mentorship over the last 25 years from @VernCarruthers, @LlinasLab, @deitschkirk, and many others.
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25 Jun 2025
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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Björn F.C. Kafsack retweeted
10 Jun 2025
Surprise, surprise! #GTFO ICE
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23 May 2025
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!🤯 shorturl.at/dCCO8
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23 May 2025
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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16 Jan 2025
Are the @veupathdb blast servers down?
Simple searches that normally take seconds, are still running after 5-10 min.
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5 Nov 2024
Put my 3D printer to work for this mosquito costume.
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5 Nov 2024
Prepared for years putting on the extra weight just so the abdomen looks distended with the blood meal! 😂
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3 Sep 2024
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 🤯biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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24 Oct 2024
Happy to see this story out in Pathogens today.
Not bad for summer internship project.
Well done Hermela and @Riward!
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Björn F.C. Kafsack retweeted
11 Aug 2024
Working on some more community love on this gentle Sunday by writing a tutorial on how I use Primer3Plus.com to generate reliable primers for both detection and cloning. Please RT and share with your students! Enjoy! 💚
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Björn F.C. Kafsack retweeted
7 Aug 2024
It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. @BSPparasitology @AS_Para @ASTMH @TrendsParasitol @AmSocParasit @parasitesrule @PiParasitology
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