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Research Associate @GenomeScience.bsky.social studying #parasites and #NTDs | #RNAbiology, #RNAstructures, G-quadruplex, splice leader enthusiast | #LGBTinSTEM 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇪🇺 | 😺lover

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 4

The Splice Leader table v3 is here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
More nematodes, more flatworms, more cestodes, more dinoflagellates.
What is coming form original research is Crithidia but again, keep it coming and the list will grow and I will learn more and more #openscience

SL_table_list_v3-030425.xlsx

Version 3This table summarizes all splice leader sequences I, and other contributors, could find in the literature. The doi and PMID of the reference where the sequences were found serves as reference...

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · 6d

Saying thank you to someone and truly meaning it is heartwarming.
Just putting that here #thankyou

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · 10d

After a great week for me and my student, I decided to capitalize on the luck to use MEGA for a tree and cibersort to deconvolute my data. There is no amount of luck that can make those 2 things happen or I used too much of it for everything good that happened earlier this week #sundayscience #fail

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Gabriel Negreira @gnegreira.bsky.social · 27d

Happy to share our latest preprint, where we present a novel high-throughput #single-cell DNA method that resolves genomic heterogeneity in #Leishmania, from #aneuploidy, #CNVs to #drug-resistance mutations.

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Link here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · 16d

A huge thank you to @genomescience.bsky.social for the fantastic environment and for hosting my dreams

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · 16d

My very first fully bioinformatic paper! I did everything myself and now I'm off to do a PCR. I'm grateful to David Serre for teaching me. I hope this will bring new insight to the community and people will enjoy reading it. More to come very soon about Trypanosomatid's genome annotation

bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 16d

The UTRs of Leishmania donovani vary in length and are enriched in potential regulatory structures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677690v1

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Sep 1

No MPM for me this year, I have way too much on my plate BUT it doesn't I won't be there. Look for my name and see the great job my very talented student Anushka Shome has done in collaboration with the Hovel-Miner lab on T. brucei

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jul 17

Sonny is helping to download some Toxoplasma gondii sequences to analyse. He is fascinated by the idea, as everybody can see 😻😏🙃

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jul 12

Typo, it’s a course

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jul 11

Join me at BUGSS on Sat August 9th for a approachable and interactive "lecture" on the theory of Nanopore Sequencing, discuss pros and cons, potential applications, answer your questions, and more. See you there! #ONTsequencing #CitizenScience @genomescience.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jul 11

Don't give away fantastic news like "remember what I told you didn't work? well it worked and it looks great but I can't find the file where the description is" just 90min before a progress meeting cause now I want to know for in 90min and not next week Friday #teachingmoment #fantasticintern

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jun 29

Making meaningful bioproject/biosample/SRA entry for the entire community to reuse the data is a tedious process but it is worth it. Thank you to my dear colleague and friend @robincubed.bsky.social you taught me the best practices and keeps on advising me.

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm doing the stupid research security training mandated if you apply or get federal funds. Nothing there is new if you do academic research for the right reasons. I wonder if all people in government atm have done and passed it... No, don't tell me, i know

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Urgent family business made me fly back to France for some time. I have a summer student starting today and I can only say thank you to all my colleagues that are actually helping to make it work! I don't think I could have make it work without them. #appreciateyourcolleagues

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · May 28

@nanoporetech.com the customer service is... abysmal these days

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · May 21

In our liberal echo chamber that we created here posting this article is probably less impacting but I'm doing it anyway. #NTD are/will be on the rise soon, #billions were spent in elimination efforts that are now totally wasted.

Crippling tropical diseases threaten to surge after U.S. funding cuts

Closing of programs that fought neglected diseases imperils drug donation and distribution efforts in 26 countries

www.science.org

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · May 5

Anybody outside of the US looking for a #parasitologist? #postdoc #USacademic

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Apr 4

Anybody around has experience with CibersortX? It has become my new nightmare!

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Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social · Mar 24

I am happy to share a preprint on the marine plankton project I started one year ago (thanks to Julius and Drahomira's help)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'll say it again, thank your support staff, they are AWSOME!

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 14

Remember when I said I didn't want to do a GO analysis ever again, well I still think that however it is the first time it gave something interesting and something I can talk about in the discussion of my paper!

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 12

I don't wanna do a GO enrichment analysis EVER AGAIN!

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 10

Today wasn’t a great day. Anybody with some cat pictures or some hydatid cyst to help with my mood? Any other parasite would work

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

Don't forget to tell your support staff that you appreciate the hard work they do and that they matter to what we do. Research would be so much harder without them.

Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

Never forget!

Pete Dodd @petedodd24.bsky.social · Mar 5

A tracker estimating deaths from freezing PEPFAR pepfar.impactcounter.com #HIVsky #TBsky #IDsky

PEPFAR Impact Tracker

Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt

pepfar.impactcounter.com

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Franck Dumetz 🦠😻🏳️‍🌈 @franckdumetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

sorry for the mess in figshare, I had to re-upload things so the previous doi for the table got a bit messed up but v1 and v2 are all there for traceability