A. Krishna Rao

I am no longer active on Twitter. I do not check my mentions or direct messages. This account is here for legacy purposes only.

[Michigan News @UMichiganNews]

.@UMich's prof. @golob on @ConversationUS: The U.S. Food & Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially recommended that people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised receive a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
https://t.co/F3mBuFHdrm

[Muge Cevik @mugecevik]

There is a lot of concern/confusion about vaccine effectiveness against the delta variant. How effective are the vaccines against Delta & how to interpret real-world observational data? So much misinformation is being circulated, so this thread brings key data together. 🧵(1/n)

[CDC Emerging Infections @CDC_NCEZID]

Read a CDC perspective: Controlling & containing emerging #AntibioticResistance threats & protecting people requires novel & innovative approaches. The human microbiome is a promising area of #PublicHealth research https://t.co/69cmNkqI7F #WorldMicrobiomeDay #Microbiomes4life

[Alex Perry @DAlexPerry]

It took a little over a year, but I finally have my name joining a list of titans of ID.

[Vincent Young @a2binny]

Excited that our latest work is out in @mbiojournal. Describes a new model to investigate the relationship between inflammation and susceptibility to C. difficile infection. Proud of our @UMMicroImmuno and @UMIntMed trainees on this one. #Cdiff #IBD https://t.co/nVqxkGh7Px

[mSphere @mSphereJ]

For vol 6, issue 3 of mSphere, we'll pick the featured image based on your vote. Please RT! Vote in the poll that follows the 4 choices...

[Alex Perry @DAlexPerry]

Taught me so much, and will never forgive me for putting kale and vegan bacon in the mac and cheese she demanded I share.

[UVA ID @UVA_ID]

Congratulations to UVA ID's @GregoryRMadden on being selected for this @thriv_i research fellowship to analyze immune profiles and Clostridioides difficile infection outcomes!!

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

Great work by @jlmleslie and colleagues from the Petri lab at UVA on Lewis blood group antigens and Shigellosis. Le−/Se+ infants were more likely to suffer such illness with increased hazard ratio of 2.4 https://t.co/87YpjHvNly #globalhealth

[UVA ID @UVA_ID]

Congratulations to UVA ID's Dr. Bill Petri on receiving a UVA Jefferson Award! This wonderful and fully deserved honor is the highest given by UVA. Bill is a tireless researcher, educator, and clinician who provides exemplary mentorship in each domain.

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

Thanks @a2binny for all the guidance and support over the years! And congrats to @SnitkinLabWGS and @TheSpenceLab as well!

[Vincent Young @a2binny]

Hooray! Today the Regents of U of M met today to approve: Promotion to Associate Professor, with Tenure of @PulseTsar and @SnitkinLabWGS and Promotion to Professor with Tenure of @TheSpenceLab. Congrats and #GOBLUE!!!!!! @UMMicroImmuno @UMIntMed

[Wiep Klaas Smits @SmitsLab]

C. difficile exploits a host metabolite [#sorbitol] produced during toxin-mediated disease https://t.co/jDfI6JZw5F

[Jonathan Golob, MD PhD @golob]

I have four grant reviews each with a reviewer whining about my lack of productivity during a pandemic with strict lockdowns, financial austerity that locked my startup, and one reviewer who expressed sneering contempt at my voluntary clinical service in a Covid ICU.

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

My summary of a >3 vs. >6 foot classroom distancing policy study in CID https://t.co/bYnWZ56TNW just posted at https://t.co/XjuSEwXmdc, regarding #SARS_CoV_2 transmission risk in schools. #COVID19

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

I found out from email spam that the opinion piece I wrote with @golob on the #microbiome and #AntimicrobialResistance was published in JID @IDSAInfo. Glad someone is paying attention 😂 https://t.co/b7ZrQzjzC5

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

#askupgrade Want to replace Win10 server with a Mac mini. Wondering about VNC/RDP options when away from home. What is best from security perspective? 1st party Apple options like screen sharing / remote desktop or full 3rd party client/server solutions like Jump?

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Malaria vaccine!!!

I'm gonna try to learn more about this, but a 77% effective malaria vaccine is automatically in the running for Best News of the Year.

Malaria kills 400k ppl annually, mostly children. Perhaps no other infectious disease consistently destroys more life.

[A. Krishna Rao @PulseTsar]

If Tolstoy was right that there are more ways for families to be unhappy than happy, then, like entropy, un happiness will always increase in a closed family system. #SaturdayThoughts #ADOPT

[Ethan Siegel @StartsWithABang]

This is really cool! A few days ago, I tweeted that you'd only be able to dig down into the Earth about 1% of the way towards the center before Earth itself became luminous.

@KentRatajeski calculated the blackbody radiation color at every depth; here's what your eyes would see!