Björn Kafsack
@kafsacklab.bsky.social
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Working at Weill Cornell in New York City at the intersection of chromatin, metabolism, and differentiation in apicomplexan parasites.
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It's missing the long line of mini-figures...
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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.
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Never! This heirloom will be passed down to each first-born in perpetuity.
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Little confused: Doesn't the letter specifically state that the NIH director lacks the ability to dismiss Advisory Committee members since they serve at the discretion of the HHS secretary?
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Little confused: Doesn't the letter specifically state that the NIH director lacks the ability to dismiss Advisory Committee members since they serve at the discretion of the HHS secretary?
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Came across this gem from @fad1.bsky.social while packing up my office.
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Great collaboration between GSK Tres Cantos, Weill Cornell and the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute.
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Great collaboration between GSK Tres Cantos, Weill Cornell and the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute.
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As standard screens for new antimalarials yield diminishing new targets and chemotypes, GSK Tres Cantos used media that mimics nutrients in serum & found many new hits. We then id'ed the targets and, amazingly, every one of the 29 new chemotypes found blocks PSAC!🤯
shorturl.at/dCCO8
www.sciencedirect.com
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The end of the Joe Visone era at WCM is upon us!
It's been an absolute delight! 😍
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Just substituted "transgenic" for "genetically modified" and "diverse/diversity" for "varied/variation" in all parts of my R01 submission. 🤯
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Pulling the F31 Diversity applications from evaluation instead of converting them to regular F31s is just so cruel.
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So sorry for everyone who worked so hard putting their applications together for them be vaporized by the vicissitudes of these malicious minds.
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The NIH just pulled all the F31 Diversity fellowship applications from the study section I'm on ...
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Exciting pre-print from the Soares Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine showing that increased bilirubin is protective in humans, mice and in vitro. 👏👏👏
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV4...
www.biorxiv.org
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Does that link work for anyone else?
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Really cool work! Thanks for a great talk ParaFrap and Gretchen.
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“Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”