Happy to share a new preprint exploring the unusual biochemistry of a "weirdly" diverged cytochrome c in malaria parasites that exemplifies a lineage common to many apicomplexan parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A Divergent Cytochrome c in Malaria Parasites with an Anomalously Low Redox Potential

Eukaryotic cytochrome (cyt) c is a highly conserved mitochondrial protein central to cellular respiration, featuring a covalently attached hexacoordinate heme whose redox potential is tuned by axial H...

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I can’t help myself from bragging about my son’s election to Centennial CO city council: www.newindiaabroad.com/english/news...

Ashish Vaidya elected to Centennial City Council in Colorado

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Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️ A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria

Endogenous structure of antimalarial target PfATP4 reveals an apicomplexan-specific P-type ATPase modulator

Nature Communications - Here, the authors present the 3.7 Å cryoEM structure of native sodium efflux pump PfATP4 from Plasmodium falciparum, revealing a bound protein that they term...

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Congratulations to Dr. Hangjun Ke for her promotion to Associate Professor at Drexel University! So proud of you!

Ardmore, PA saying NO KINGS in a BIG way this morning! #nokings #Nokingsinamerica @indivisible.org @indivisiblepa.bsky.social @alyceann.bsky.social @lynnielou222.bsky.social @singingbirdpa.bsky.social

No Kings rally in Ardmore,PA.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says

The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.

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Would it be too late at some point? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

Musk has turned a dangerously flawed view of “waste” into a philosophy of government.

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A sign at #StandUpForScience rally in Philadelphia last week.

At the #StandUpForScience2025 rally in downtown Philly. With my lab manager Joanne Morrisey.

Women in Malaria@womeninmalaria.bsky.social · last yr.

#StandUpForScience2025 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬

#StandUpForScience2025 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... This administration is murderous. Among the programs cut is one in Nigeria where 60000 children will face death due to the cancellation of nutrition programs. Shameful and sinful. Blood on their hands.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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As I watched Elon Musk stand in the Oval office with his son, I wondered why doesn’t someone ask him, “Mr. Musk, you must love your 3-year old son, but what do you think of thousands of other 3-year olds who are not getting food and medicine and are dying because you fed USAID to the wood chipper?”

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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

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Go Birds!!!

Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Opinion | Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out

Trump’s presidency demands your attention.

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“You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K.,” Gawande says. “That’s what they were trying to do with lifesaving health and humanitarian assistance around the world.” So glad for this convo to get a lot off my chest. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande

“You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K.,” Gawande says. “That’s what they were trying to do with lifesaving health and humanitarian assistance around the ...

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost diversity in science education.

NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/t... via @statnews.com Yet another blow to fairness and justice.

NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science

Applications for a prestigious NIH grant that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are not being funded.

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AND IT’S ILLEGAL FOLKS: “None of the funds appropriated in this title may be used to modify or implement any change to the indirect cost rates applied to grants & contracts funded by the NIH w/o the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives & the Senate.” 1/