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Anne Sapiro

@annesapiro

🧀 head | 👩🏻‍🔬 sequencing ticks and their bugs 🦠

 California, USA
Joined November 2011
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Working with spirochetes in vitro is hard enough, amazed at what @annesapiro & @seemaychou accomplished—sequencing spirochete RNA from feeding ticks! Spoiler: spirochete prophages become transcriptionally active during a blood meal biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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@seemaychou10 Nov 2022
Curious how the Lyme pathogen changes as it moves through ticks during bloodmeal transmission? Us too - and it took a lot of blood sweat and tears (and ticks) for @annesapiro to crack this one. Let us know if you need help navigating our data! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Longitudinal map of transcriptome changes in the Lyme pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi during tick-b...

Longitudinal map of transcriptome changes in the Lyme pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi during tick-b...

Borrelia burgdorferi ( Bb ), the causative agent of Lyme disease, must adapt to vastly different environments as the bacterium cycles between the tick vector and a vertebrate host. During a bloodme...

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