26: COMPETITION

Dengue fever virus has 5 serotypes that compete for hosts. Primary infection with 1 makes further infection with another much more dangerous. So it’s a real killer competition!

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We love this submission to our challenge from ! Submit your visual metaphors this week!

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To extend our knowledge of art-science interactions, from spoke with us today about his & engagement projects, including work with the , gardens & the

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Things that have come up during today's check-in meetings w/LHL virtual fellows:

1) Fantômas, the villainous French criminal mastermind
2) The possibility of using to teach undergrads about
3) The Underpants Gnomes from

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25: TRANSPOSON

Also known as jumping genes, they’re a handy tool in a many pathogen's toolkit. Transposons give Cryptococcus neoformans the genetic room it needs to adapt & resist antibiotics during infection.

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“Be a science spy! Avoid the lasers of misinformation & follow the science to get to the facts!” 🤓 We love this challenge submission from 💜 See others at https://t.co/4yx0YQvR3c & submit yours before the end of the month!

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24: ZOONOTIC

Sometimes we're incidental hosts to pathogens. Ebolaviruses mostly infect non-human primates & bats. Our Ebola outbreaks start w. a spillover from these animals, before human to human spread takes over

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Our new episode on the Acanthostega is out now! Were they an evolutionary stepping stone to get from water to land? The answer is a bit more complicated than that! Listen to find out more. https://t.co/u5Gw3sHUDp

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🔬Check out the Olympus Image of the Year Award 2020 winning images: https://t.co/h4SFUJAs5o
1. Global winner: Whole rat embryo by Werner Zuschratter; 2. Americas regional prize: Polarized glutamine + beta alanine crystals by Justin Zoll

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🤷 Can you relate to 's illustration of an There is a lot of health information out there -- which sources are you listening to? Are they trusted sources? Learn more about the challenge: https://t.co/4yx0YQvR3c

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20: LUMINESCENCE

Yes, there are luminescent pathogens too... Vibrio harveyi causes luminescent vibriosis in farmed shrimp. This may involve widespread necrosis in their appendages, but what a pretty colour!

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Help your students practice primary source interviews with THIS WEEK's lesson.
Get your Ss interviewing like their FAV authors!
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"I want to inspire kids to see and appreciate the world around them in new and exciting ways."

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"I want to inspire kids to see and appreciate the world around them in new and exciting ways."

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Also released today, a set of bilingual posters on the threats facing seabirds in northern Aotearoa, by the wonderful ! Available in Te Reo Māori and English here: https://t.co/1J3dwsLarn

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18: MOTILITY

Proteus is a catheter opportunist with a bullseye motility pattern, due to cycling btw vegetative & swarmer states. A switch to swarming causes massive elongation, many more flagella & all the nasties!

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Results from the
Paracrax (as a hoatzin relative), Ruyangosaurus and Epicyon.

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Day 17: Head-to-head
How do fruitfly navigate their Larvae crawl forward, and at moments stop, bend their "head" to a side and change direction, or do a sweeping motion and go to the other side. (1/3)

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PART EIGHT: eye photoshoot for , radiolaran tennis for , climate cat for , educated microbes for

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