Veronica Jimenez
@jimeneztrypslab.bsky.social
Professor @ CSUF, interested in parasites, mechanosensation and ion channels 🇪🇸🇦🇷
https://vjimenezor.wixsite.com/Jimenezlab
https://vjimenezor.wixsite.com/Jimenezlab
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Happy to announce the latest publication from Team Larvae at Cal State Long Beach. Very proud of the the graduate and undergraduate students who made this project happen. Well done!
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Food-induced phenotypic plasticity in echinoid larvae is inducible and reversible throughout development - BMC Biology
Background Echinoid larvae are known to display food-induced phenotypic plasticity, where larvae alter their morphology and physiology to reflect available food levels. The aim of this study was to de...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Happy to announce the latest publication from Team Larvae at Cal State Long Beach. Very proud of the the graduate and undergraduate students who made this project happen. Well done!
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Fantastic job opportunity at the Lander lab. Apply!
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Fantastic job opportunity at the Lander lab. Apply!
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Thrilled our study on heme crystal motion in #malaria @parasitesrule.org is now published @pnas.org, support from NIH, @bwfund.bsky.social, @uofutahcihd.bsky.social, UofU 3i. With Fu and Bidone labs @price.utah.edu, @uofubiochem.bsky.social, @uofuhealth.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Chemical propulsion of hemozoin crystal motion in malaria parasites | PNAS
Malaria parasites infect red blood cells where they digest host hemoglobin and release
free heme inside a lysosome-like organelle called the food v...
www.pnas.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thrilled our study on heme crystal motion in #malaria @parasitesrule.org is now published @pnas.org, support from NIH, @bwfund.bsky.social, @uofutahcihd.bsky.social, UofU 3i. With Fu and Bidone labs @price.utah.edu, @uofubiochem.bsky.social, @uofuhealth.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Another "gift" from climate change:
The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper.
gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...
The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper.
gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...
The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.
Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper.
gizmodo.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Another "gift" from climate change:
The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper.
gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...
The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper.
gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...
Chagas disease still affects millions of people not just in Latin America👇🏼
August 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Chagas disease still affects millions of people not just in Latin America👇🏼
And we are in the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social !! Check it out
Issue 15 is complete
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
On the cover: 3D ET model of T. cruzi showing the contractile vacuole complex (blue) with an adhesion plaque domain (red) & a membrane fusion pore. See article by Augusto et al.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
On the cover: 3D ET model of T. cruzi showing the contractile vacuole complex (blue) with an adhesion plaque domain (red) & a membrane fusion pore. See article by Augusto et al.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
And we are in the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social !! Check it out
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Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH
A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo
A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo
Integrated structural biology of the native malarial translation machinery and its inhibition by an antimalarial drug
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Integrated structural biology approach leveraging in situ cryo-electron tomography reveals molecular details of the native malarial translation...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH
A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo
A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo
Also check on the interview to Ingrid, now a junior PI! 👏🏼🎉
Read more about this research in our ‘First person’ interview with Ingrid Augusto: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Also check on the interview to Ingrid, now a junior PI! 👏🏼🎉
Latest manuscript of our collaboration with Kildare Miranda and the fantastic Ingrid Augusto 👇🏻👇🏻
Ingrid Augusto, Kildare Miranda and colleagues discover that the adhesion plaque mediates fluid discharge and duplication of the contractile vacuole complex in Trypanosoma cruzi.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Latest manuscript of our collaboration with Kildare Miranda and the fantastic Ingrid Augusto 👇🏻👇🏻
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Dr Noelia Lander reviews the structure of #cAMP compartments in #Trypanosoma #cruzi. #Contractile #Vacuole #Environmental #Sensing #Flagellar #Distal #Metacyclogenesis #Osmoregulation #Signaling #Microdomains
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRke5Eb1x...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRke5Eb1x...
July 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Dr Noelia Lander reviews the structure of #cAMP compartments in #Trypanosoma #cruzi. #Contractile #Vacuole #Environmental #Sensing #Flagellar #Distal #Metacyclogenesis #Osmoregulation #Signaling #Microdomains
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRke5Eb1x...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRke5Eb1x...
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Kissing Bugs Are Creeping Into Florida Homes—and They’re Carrying a Dangerous Parasite
A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.
gizmodo.com/kissing-bugs...
A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.
gizmodo.com/kissing-bugs...
Kissing Bugs Are Creeping Into Florida Homes—and They're Carrying a Dangerous Parasite
A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.
gizmodo.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kissing Bugs Are Creeping Into Florida Homes—and They’re Carrying a Dangerous Parasite
A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.
gizmodo.com/kissing-bugs...
A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.
gizmodo.com/kissing-bugs...
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Registration and Abstract submission for MPMXXXVI are now open! Abstract submission deadline is June 27th, get yours in quickly. @rmc9z.bsky.social @mjgubbels.bsky.social @omarharb.org
🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
June 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Registration and Abstract submission for MPMXXXVI are now open! Abstract submission deadline is June 27th, get yours in quickly. @rmc9z.bsky.social @mjgubbels.bsky.social @omarharb.org
🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi
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Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
February 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Our research community has been under attack. We know how important the research we do is – without it, jobs will be lost, clinical trials will be canceled, and life-saving discoveries will never be made. Please spread the word and sign the letter docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...
Protect NIH Research: Advocate for Full Funding
As researchers representing universities across the country, the last few weeks have been filled with uncertainty. As you are aware, the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) prop...
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February 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our research community has been under attack. We know how important the research we do is – without it, jobs will be lost, clinical trials will be canceled, and life-saving discoveries will never be made. Please spread the word and sign the letter docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...
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Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
Sign the Petition
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
chng.it
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
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Welcome to the @veupathdb.bsky.social account! Follow us for project announcements and updates, and be part of the vibrant VEuPathDB community.
January 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Welcome to the @veupathdb.bsky.social account! Follow us for project announcements and updates, and be part of the vibrant VEuPathDB community.
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✍️Warning: application deadlines are closer than they appear!✍️
January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance!
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance!
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
January 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
✍️Warning: application deadlines are closer than they appear!✍️
January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance!
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance!
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
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Last month we launched the Chagas Observatory—a new tool developed by @coalicionchagas.bsky.social, @worldheart.org, and DNDi, to monitor #ChagasDisease, one of the world’s most neglected diseases.
👉 Learn more here www.observatoriochagas.com
👉 Learn more here www.observatoriochagas.com
Observatório Chagas
Observatório Chagas
www.observatoriochagas.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Last month we launched the Chagas Observatory—a new tool developed by @coalicionchagas.bsky.social, @worldheart.org, and DNDi, to monitor #ChagasDisease, one of the world’s most neglected diseases.
👉 Learn more here www.observatoriochagas.com
👉 Learn more here www.observatoriochagas.com