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Please help out Jahree, my friend and fellow Pitt PhD student, who lost everything in a fire 🤍

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New paper from the @boylelab.bsky.social: Toxoplasma gondii GRA28 Is Required for Placenta-Specific Induction of the Regulatory Chemokine CCL22 in Human and Mouse #AcademicTwitter journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

New paper alert! 🚨🚨 A true whole-group effort in outlining CCL22 induction at the hands of T. gondii secreted protein GRA28. Important work in understanding T. gondii infection dynamics at the placenta. Congrats to lead Elizabeth Rudzki!! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

Even though I couldn’t attend the lab Christmas party, I was very happy to at least take home the Ugly Sweater competition win for @boylelab.bsky.social! #catsFTW

today everyone here is clearly mourning the plain fact that the one institution authorized to make evidence-based guidance during this pandemic is actually an apparatus for capitalist extraction. yes, that is a bummer.

Today ccoolli and I got the notice for grant award for a multi PI grant to study Toxoplasma-placenta interactions. This was the sixth time we submitted that grant in some form or another. Lots of reasons why (poor grant writing at times on my part for sure!!)…. But…

A transcriptional network required for Toxoplasma gondii tissue cyst formation is dispensable for long-term persistence biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Would have shown this at the end of my talk this evening ToxoXVI #toxoxvi to highlight posters from my lab: Leah, Hisham and Rafaela. Sorry I can’t be there yet but swing by these posters tonight if you are interested!

and finally… what you’ve all been waiting for ToxoXVI group photo! Safe home everyone and see you in Berlin!

Postdoc opportunities in my lab at the University of Pittsburgh! Come and join us! asmcareerconnections.org/job/postdoctor…

Happy Valentine’s Day! Please enjoy some toxo-themed valentines ♥️

Reviving my science Twitter to plug my poster at #MPM2023!! Come hear about my work investigating how Toxoplasma impacts progenitor cells in the human placenta. I will be at the Monday night session, poster #112! parasitesrule Women In Parasitology

I’m excited to share my work which investigates oral infectivity of Toxoplasma gondii ROCY1 (BFD2) KO parasites within an in vivo model. Come by poster 101 to see more! #MPM2023 Women In Parasitology parasitesrule

These 3 gals are all done their #MPM2023 presentations and are heading home! Cheers to a great conference week with a really cool research community.

New Lab Content: Leah Cabo⁩ shows that Toxoplasma rewires placental trophoblasts with important developmental consequence. My fav part: infection suppresses trophoblast fusion, a critical process in maintaining the protective placental barrier. Read 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…