Shahid Karim

Link to apply for a postdoc position in Alpha-Gal Syndrome.
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Hear from @machtingerlab.bsky.social if you should be worried about ticks.

🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful.

Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists.
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Now hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow--Karim Lab! Special Instructions to ApplicantsReview of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.  Applicants shoul...

Are you passionate and collaborative researcher interested in vector biology? Then, apply for a postdoc position by April 11, 2025.
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Congrats!

female lone star tick. Spring is coming

First one this year from a northern state. When the lone star ticks start stalking, you gotta know Spring must be right around the corner. But are YOU ready? We’ve got all the tips you need to #BeReadyForTicks right here...https://bit.ly/TicksSpring2020b

Colorado CDC researcher terminated amid federal budget cuts while working on Lyme disease projects Colorado research biologist Joe Cardiello was excited about being involved in what could become lifesaving research for people who have been impacted by Lyme disease.

No reason except to create chaos and fear

🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graduate student admissions temporarily paused as university monitors federal funding In the wake of fears about significant reductions in federal funding, Vanderbilt has temporarily paused graduate student admissions. Current graduate students and faculty also raised alarm about resea...

Vanderbilt has apparently paused doctoral student admissions (they fully fund everyone accepted). Expect quite a bit of this at wealthier institutions that typically guarantee funding.

ICYMI: a post about why the firings at NIH this weekend devastated cancer research. And other biomedical research too.

Building a science lab is like building a new company: it takes years to put together the right team. Many lab groups are now broken.

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🚨 We are recruiting for two post-doc positions!🚨

1) Development of genetic tools to study mosquito immune cells isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

2) Role of mosquito immune cells in immune recognition and priming isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Probably too late (deadline is just days away) but if you know of any students looking for a M.S. opportunity, especially to work on inverts in Puerto Rico during the summers, they would need to reach out ASAP.

Mississippi researchers investigate growing tick-borne allergy to red meat Mississippians are no strangers to ticks, but residents of the Magnolia State may be surprised to learn that these pesky parasites are capable of spreading a food allergy that makes red meat particula...

@alphagal-info.bsky.social @alphagal-res.bsky.social @alphagal.bsky.social @mississippifreepress.org @mississippitoday.org @foodallergy.bsky.social
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Health Check - Health crisis in Sudan - BBC Sounds What is driving the health polycrisis in Sudan?

Nice coverage of our work! My interview with Claudia Hammond of BBC Health Check. #Ticks, #Migratorybirds, #microbiome, #Climatechange @entsocamerica.bsky.social
My interview starts at minute 13:00:
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#molecularbiology#cellularbiology
#tenuretrackfacultu

Now hiring: Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences! Special Instructions to ApplicantsPlease submit a cover letter, CV, Research Statement (up to 3 pages), Teaching Philosophy (up to 2 pages), and conta...

Exciting opportunity!
@SouthernMiss
is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
@USMArtsSciences

@ASBMB

@ASCBiology

Here is the link: usm.csod.com/ats/careersi...
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Now hiring: Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences! Special Instructions to ApplicantsPlease submit a cover letter, CV, Research Statement (up to 3 pages), Teaching Philosophy (up to 2 pages), and conta...

Exciting opportunity!
@SouthernMiss
is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
@USMArtsSciences

@ASBMB

@ASCBiology

Here is the link: usm.csod.com/ats/careersi...
Please share it!

Frontiers | Ticks without borders: microbiome of immature neotropical tick species parasitizing migratory songbirds along northern Gulf of Mexico

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Les tiques, transportées par les oiseaux migrateurs, survivent davantage avec le réchauffement du climat Une étude détaille comment les tiques, transportées par les oiseaux migrateurs, profitent du réchauffement pour étendre leur aire de répartition, amenant avec elles des agents pathogènes.

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Migrating birds have stowaway passengers: invasive ticks could spread novel diseases around the world Ticks have always travelled on migrating birds — but the rising temperatures of the climate crisis mean they may now survive at their destination, and so could

www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/11...

Tick bite-induced Alpha-Gal Syndrome and Immunologic Responses in an Alpha-Gal Deficient Murine Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.09.566281v1 Introduction: Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS) is a delayed allergic reaction due to specific IgE antibodies

Tick bite-induced Alpha-Gal Syndrome and Immunologic Responses in an Alpha-Gal Deficient Murine Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.09.566281v1

Ticks without borders: Microbial communities of immature Neotropical tick species parasitizing migra... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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For anyone attending #TropMed23, myself and others from the lab will be presenting some of our exciting unpublished work regarding mosquito immune cells and parasite/virus infection. Come and join us!

Drs Shahid Karim, Juan Leyva-Castillo & Sukanya Narasimhan review #tick #salivary #glycans – a sugar-coated tick bite.
@theticklab
@YaleMed
@YaleIMed
@SouthernMiss
@harvardmed
@BostonChildrens
#Saliva #αGal #Syndrome #Glycosylation #Th2
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New paper: Adegoke A, Ribeiro JMC, Smith RC, Karim S. Tick Innate Immune Responses to Hematophagy and Ehrlichia Infection at Single-Cell Resolution. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Tick Innate Immune Responses to Hematophagy and Ehrlichia Infection at Single-Cell Resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560565v1 Ticks rely on robust cellular and humoral immune responses to control microbial infection. However,

Tick Innate Immune Responses to Hematophagy and Ehrlichia Infection at Single-Cell Resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560565v1

🚨: I'm looking for a technician who will help me maintain our tick facility. I'm ideally looking for someone with some experience in lab animal husbandry and/or arthropod colony maintenance. Other candidates with lab experience will also be considered. Please reach out!