Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸

Pathogenic Free-Living Amoeba Drug Hunter. Interested in Drug Discovery and Development, Molecular Mechanisms, Host-Microbe Interactions, WGS & RNA-Seq.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@statnews Hopefully they learn more about #brain-eating amoeba!
Some of the top 5 #deadliest diseases which can be treated successfully if caught or suspected early.
Kerala is a prime example of this. Any meningitis case which they see they treat for PAM (Naegleria) while Dx comes back!

[UGA CTEGD @CTEGD]

Brain-eating amoeba: Who is most often infected?
@parasite_doc @universityofga
https://t.co/DmjeEQpN9f

[UGA CTEGD @CTEGD]

Brain-eating amoebas are rare. But hot weather increases the risk
@parasite_doc @universityofga @UGA_IDIS
https://t.co/w01wdVC1gg

[Dennis Kyle @parasite_doc]

Virulence of Naegleria fowleri isolates varies significantly in the mouse model of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis | bioRxiv https://t.co/X7UjuikC1A

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@StephenTristram @ParasiteGal A classic.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@AgriExperts @icarindia @irri @RiceIcar @AgriGoI @Ale_Raza6 @Gurjeet_AgSci @PIB_India @PotliNews Again, surname, not field of study. Get it right.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@medicinAlicia @Manetsch_Lab @NU_Chemistry Congratulations! Wishing you all the best in the next adventure.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

Couldn’t resist adding #Mario and #Toad for #MAR10Day for a class today!

Even if they thought it was cringe, I loved it! 😂 #nerd #parasites

@LifeAtPurdue #boilerup

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@MotherOfPhage All I can think about if you use mutatoes…..

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

Hey @Apple, how do you know that this email accelerates the heart rate whenever we receive a notification? 😅😂 @NIH
#Academia #grant #Boilerup #RareDisease 🤞🤞.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

🚨New publication alert🚨
Happy to share that my first Ph.D. student, Chenyang Lu, had her first first-authored publication from our lab accepted in @ACSPublications, Journal of Natural Products!

https://t.co/EoEgylcf8I

#drugdiscovery #amoeba #naturalproducts #peptides

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@medicinAlicia There’s some lurkers, like amoeba. 😅😂

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@MotherOfPhage Maybe some amoeba 👀👀

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@CTEGD @parasite_doc @jcklab Congratulations! 🍾

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

Shreyes Kanumuru, a talented undergraduate researcher, in the Rice Research Group presented his UG research at @LifeAtPurdue Fall Expo today! He found many of the recommended therapies are ineffective against several strains of Balamuthia and that newer drugs are urgently needed!

[VEuPathDB @veupathdb]

In two weeks, @veupathdb is hosting a Protozoan Researcher Community Meeting to discuss where we stand, share future plans, and answer questions. We hope you will be there! Please register for a zoom link. https://t.co/j4ysi4FwzX

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@reenwilson @KatrinaVelle Happy to jump on a video call and show you the videos which we’ve produced in the lab.
I believe it is alleviating the initial symptoms due to the encystment, but then causing more relapse cases later on when physicians think they have treated the disease and take off drugs.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@reenwilson @KatrinaVelle It can be traumatic for a patient seeing how amoeba behave, but these experiments help us researchers understand these organisms better.

e.g. by using microscopy, I believe I know why we see more relapsing cases when AK patients are treated with azoles, it causes encystation.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

@ADTsaousis Thank you! Hope to see you at the Protistology-UK meeting in Liverpool next year!
You’ll get to hear more about it then 🤞.

[Rice Research Group 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 @RiceAmoebaLab]

Today we received ~160,000 drugs to screen against #braineatingamoeba. This will be the worlds largest drug screen against these #neglected diseases! This will take us ~2 months to process 🥲. 🤞 we identify some more useful scaffolds to optimize in #drugs !