Dana Shaw
@shawlab.bsky.social
Associate Professor at WSU studying how and why ticks transmit disease 🦠🕷🩸🧬🧫 www.shawlab.org
Graduation Day and new preprint for Kaylee Vosbigian! @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social So many congrats- looking forward to following Kaylee’s future accomplishments! #microsky #gocougs #proudPI
bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 3mo agoAn Nrf2-Nup214 positive feedback loop sustains the antioxidant response and promotes microbial infection in ticks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723311v1
Stoked to be back in Baltimore for the 4th Annual Symposium on Ticks and Tickborne Diseases hosted by the Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at Johns Hopkins!
It was so great to have Jon Skare, my former PhD advisor (and WSU alum!), visit Pullman this week to speak for WSU’s Jan and Jack Creighton Global Health Lecture Series! Even got out for a Kamiak Butte hike 🤩
Huge congrats to @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD today!! #ProudPI #GoCougs
🚨 Postdoc opportunity with Lucas Tirloni at RML to work on tick biology, host–pathogen interactions, and functional genomics! 🕷 Details and how to apply below.
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!
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New preprint! 🚨 Park and colleagues show that the Tr1 transcriptional factor is a master regulator of genes that are critical for A. phagocytophilum adaptation to the tick! #microsky #ticks #TickBorneDisease #Anaplasma
bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 9mo agoAdaptation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum to the tick vector is controlled by the transcriptional regulator Tr1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688119v1
Little half replete larva stuck on a water droplet 😍 Video cred: Cameron Coyle
The O'Neal Lab in @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social is hiring a Lab Manager to work on ticks and tick-borne diseases! You can apply here: jobs.jhu.edu/job-invite/1...
Laboratory Manager (Molecular Microbiology & Immunology)
Laboratory Manager (Molecular Microbiology & Immunology)
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Check these guys out! #MicroSky #LymeDisease
Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 11mo agoYou’ve heard of #Lymedisease, but have you ever seen the bacteria that causes it? 🦠 Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped culprit transmitted by ticks, swims with a creepy wriggling motion and uses #chemotaxis to navigate. Both fascinating... and disgusting #Microsky 🧪 #IDsky @shawlab.bsky.social
Happy to share the latest pub from our lab! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... We found that reservoir host species, Peromyscus leucopus, develop acquired tick resistance against larval Ixodes scapularis, which reduces tick feeding success and affects pathogen ingestion by larvae.
Acquired tick resistance in Peromyscus leucopus alters Ixodes scapularis infection | Infection and Immunity
The incidence of tick-borne disease in the United States has been on the rise over the last decade, with 50,865 cases reported in 2019 increasing to 73,384 cases in 2022 (1). However, passive surveill...
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Check out the latest Nature Microbiology Journal Club article written by Cameron Coyle spotlighting the diverse roles that tick haemocytes have in arthropod immunity and fitness! This piece highlights @rolandelliagus.bsky.social and Joao Pedra’s work, linked here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 12mo ago#JournalClub An atlas for tick immune cells #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hiring an Assistant Professor specializing in insect systematics. Opportunities like this are rare and valuable! (Not many jobs like this out there!) Spread the word to anyone who might be interested or benefit. #entomology #science #sciencejobs #bugsky 🧪
The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…
The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts' own cellular machinery into accomplices. New research reveals exactly how the microbes behind Lyme disease and anaplasmosis hijack tick biology to fuel their spread.
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Thrilled to see this out in PNAS today!!🎉 Big congratulations to graduate student @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social on her first, first-author paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Dana Shaw@shawlab.bsky.social · 2y agoVery happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks
Pro-tips for this summer: theonion.com/tips-for-pre...
Tips For Preventing And Treating Tick Bites
Summer is tick season. The Onion shares tips for protecting yourself from ticks and the diseases that they carry. Wear long sleeves and tall socks when volunteering at the local tick shelter. Hike in ...
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Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks
bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2y agoATF6 enables pathogen infection in ticks by inducing stomatin and altering cholesterol dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.632023v1
