Group leader @ihpe_lab Interested in how environmental cues shapes diseases development 🪱🧬 Black scientist | Immigrant | #BlackInSTEM #newPI

Joined March 2014
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🎉 First paper from my PhD student Célia Koellsch is out Overdispersion in Malaria–Schistosoma Co-infection: Insights from a Meta-analytical Approach and Systematic Review
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An important step toward understanding the complex interplay between these two major parasite infections #Parasitology #Schistosomiasis #Malaria #InfectiousDiseases #MetaAnalysis
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Kenya has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis 🇰🇪 Kenya has achieved a huge milestone as the World Health Organization (WHO) has validated it having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. Ten countries have now successfully eliminated human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. The other countries are Benin, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Rwanda, Togo, and Uganda. This is the second Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Kenya has eliminated - it eliminated Guinea worm disease in 2018.
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Tendo em vista a manifestação pública do presidente norte-americano Donald Trump apresentada em uma rede social, na tarde desta-quarta (9), é importante ressaltar: O Brasil é um país soberano com instituições independentes que não aceitará ser tutelado por ninguém. O processo judicial contra aqueles que planejaram o golpe de estado é de competência apenas da Justiça Brasileira e, portanto, não está sujeito a nenhum tipo de ingerência ou ameaça que fira a independência das instituições nacionais. No contexto das plataformas digitais, a sociedade brasileira rejeita conteúdos de ódio, racismo, pornografia infantil, golpes, fraudes, discursos contra os direitos humanos e a liberdade democrática. No Brasil, liberdade de expressão não se confunde com agressão ou práticas violentas. Para operar em nosso país, todas as empresas nacionais e estrangeiras estão submetidas à legislação brasileira. É falsa a informação, no caso da relação comercial entre Brasil e Estados Unidos, sobre o alegado déficit norte-americano. As estatísticas do próprio governo dos Estados Unidos comprovam um superávit desse país no comércio de bens e serviços com o Brasil da ordem de 410 bilhões de dólares ao longo dos últimos 15 anos. Neste sentido, qualquer medida de elevação de tarifas de forma unilateral será respondida à luz da Lei brasileira de Reciprocidade Econômica. A soberania, o respeito e a defesa intransigente dos interesses do povo brasileiro são os valores que orientam a nossa relação com o mundo.
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8 Resources to study Transcription factor binding, enhancers and histone modification distribution  1. ENCODE encodeproject.org/
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New online! Beyond the black box with biologically informed neural networks bit.ly/3DhWUUH
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📢 On #NTDDay (Jan 30), check out this video by Julia ARAUJO-ALVES, a visiting PhD student at IHPE, and colleagues from Perpignan working on neglected tropical diseases! 🎥 Videos are in scientists' native languages with FR/EN subtitles. #NTDs #Science #WHO @upvd1 @ihpe_lab
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We release our protein chatGPT, Evola! 🌟 chat-protein.com/ Evola comes in two versions: 10B & 80B. The 80B model has a 1.3B Saprot encoder & a 70B LLaMA3 decoder. Trained on 546 protein question-text pairs with an 150 billion word tokens! 💡🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Proud to announce that my first PhD student - Celia Koesllsch-Amet - won the Best Poster Award at @MIIM_2024. Her thesis investigates the co-infection of malaria and schistosomiasis in a murine model 🎉🦠🪱🐭 Well done Celia! @ihpe_lab @upvd1 #ProudPI #malaria #schistosomiasis
Spoiler alert 🚨 The announcement of the winners continues… Congratulations to M.Cannac and C. Koesllscht-Amet for the Best Posters Awards! 🎉 A big thank you to all the participants for presenting your work and for bringing passion and enthusiasm to this poster session! 👏
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10 Oct 2024
🎉 Fête de la Science à l’UPVD ! Tout est prêt pour accueillir le public de jeudi à samedi. Venez jouer avec les molécules 🧬 et découvrir le monde fascinant des parasites 🔬 #FetedelaScience@upvd1#SciencePourTous
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The last two weeks have been intense for my team @ihpe_lab @upvd1. We presented the annual qualification report for two PhD students and welcomed Júlia Alves, a PhD student from @fiocruz_en @fiocruz , who is joining us for a 6-month internship. #proudPI
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It’s funny to see Elon Musk and the usual gringo fascists sharing all sorts of English-language hyperbole about the horrible Brazilian dictatorship while my Brazilian friends are sharing memes making fun of Elon Musk
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Oportunidade de pós-doutorado no HMM! Início imediato.
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RT @alinemghilardi: Cientistas precisam de TEMPO pra PENSAR: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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26 Jul 2024
🇫🇷🇧🇷 FLASH - L'ex-footballeur brésilien Zico, membre de la délégation des JO du Brésil, s’est fait voler une mallette au contenu total estimé à 500.000 euros à Paris. (Le Parisien) #JOParis2024
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Our new paper reveals how human-induced environmental changes alter host-parasite interactions and spread tropical diseases like #schistosomiasis. We show how #pollutants—organophosphate pesticides, antibiotics, heavy metals, landfills, and microplastics—affect parasite dynamics.
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TULIP-GS is an innovative international Master course focused on problem-solving strategies to address global environmental challenges. It empowers students through hands-on research and interdisciplinary learning. #Education #Sustainability #GlobalHealth
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