EVOPath-Amazonia

Our collaborative team is working on the Environmental Virulence of Pathogenesis (EVOPath) in the Amazon. #NSFfunded

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Some challenges, but good food.

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Heading into the rivers of French Guiana to study #MycobacteriumUlcerans dispersal and persistence within food webs for #BuruliUlcer. Supported by @NSF @MSUAgBio @MSUEntomology @MSU_Osteopathic

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With some interesting sites

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@BenbowLab @MSUEntomology @NSF @EEB_MSU @CANRatMSU @MSUAgBio @MSU_Osteopathic https://t.co/EroGl5xpFP

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Go check out the work we do in the French Guiana jungle in this video I made! @EvoPathAmazonia team, T-3 weeks till we're back in our hammocks in the rainforest 😍
https://t.co/QFT41aIwUe

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Students on project and featured in the video: @DogbeMagdalene @AlexaBauer92 @RakestrawAlex @Recevej (former student, now PhD) and Kayla Fast (don't know Twitter username). Supported by @CANRatMSU @MSUEntomology @NSF

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For those unable to conduct field research in tropical watersheds, check out our new video from French Guiana doing research on #mycobacteria and #diseaseecology by @SofishPicq
@BenbowLab @evozoa @hwillia8 @jenpechal and students
h<ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxThQ97isCY

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Including @SofishPicq currently in France!

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And this is on the backs of several collaborators @jenpechal @RakestrawAlex @AlexaBauer92 Kayla Fast @DogbeMagdalene and several others not on Twitter from France that were not able to make the filming.

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More filming for the ARTE documentary on infectious diseases and epidemics/pandemics. Discussing our discover of a new potential environmental pathogen in the southern USA. @hwillia8 @evozoa @BenbowLab

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More filming for the ARTE documentary on infectious diseases and epidemics/pandemics. Discussing our discover of a new potential environmental pathogen in the southern USA. @hwillia8 @evozoa @BenbowLab

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And we are off! On the Approuague River heading to the jungle and our carbet for two nights and days of documentary filming. #EvopathAmazonia @BenbowLab @jenpechal @hwillia8 @evozoa @SofishPicq @RakestrawAlex

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A documentary film crew is with us taking footage for a movie to be premiered next fall. Georama Productions for a film to be aired on the French and German ARTE TV channel. We are heading into rivers with them for the next two nights. #EvoPathAmazonia

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And here is our new piece

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It's been a tough year for fieldwork, but we have been trying to make the best of it. Read more here:

https://t.co/VDun0qtGUc

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Up next in our video series is Kayla Fast at The University of West Alabama. She gives an overview of phage therapy with an emphasis on mycobacterial infections. This important tool can be used as an alternative to antibiotic treatment. Check out https://t.co/CQAveLLj1k for more!

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While the whole team is unable to make this trip, it is an critical sampling event to help establish where Mycobacterium species are in the environment. More to come from this Gulf Coast trip!

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Out in the field! We are very excited to be collecting samples, refining our collection protocols, & generating data! It’s the first trip for the students/tech on this project. In this brief preview, Dr. Heather Jordan shows us how to use a portable (& DIY) field centrifuge.

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Dr. Christine Chevillon presents on the life of mycobacteria as seen by microevolutionnists. Also, student perspectives on the project are coming soon! Hope you enjoy. https://t.co/BvfB4RqUAF

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If you’re interested in how COVID-19 has impacted field work, especially in an international setting, please check out our new video in our project series by Dr. Jen Pechal. https://t.co/EQBgr5MF9X

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Happy to release the newest video in our project series by Dr. Jean-François Guégan. He talks abut a disease modeling and synthesis approach for the ecology and evolution of mycobacterium disease transmission. https://t.co/efqUPMMdX0