When you are at an outdoor conference in Kigali and a cat decides you’re the chosen one #UnexpectedFriendships #Kigali #ConferencesWithCats

Today, October 12, 2025, is an extraordinary day. Starting today, 50 million children across Bangladesh will be vaccinated with the typhoid vaccine, free of cost. This vaccine will protect children from typhoid fever, a disease that has affected countless families for generations.

Having girlfriends scattered across the world is the best thing ever! Got to steal some precious time with the brilliant Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social in Geneva - scientist & all-around superstar. Emma, you’re amazing. Thank you for making the trek. My heart (& podcast storage) is full ❤️🌍

The world feels heavy with so much uncertainty. But standing here, working alongside incredible scientists & institutions like the WHO, I feel grateful, hopeful. Even in difficult times, people are working tirelessly to ensure children everywhere, including in 🇧🇩, have access to life-saving vaccines.

All daughters inherit 50% of their father’s genes but how many inherit his mentor too? Prof. Mathuram Santosham, an incredible human being, public health specialist & advocate, is mentor to both Baba and me. What an incredible 3 days filled with love & science.

At Building Scientists for Bangladesh, we do not just train the next generation of scientists - we learn with them. Raisa drew all her teammates and co-created this scrapbook. I wish I could acknowledge my team in papers the way she did here! #ScienceCommunication #STEM @chrfbd.bsky.social

Have you ever seen DNA this pretty? Did you even know it could be this pretty? Raisa (grade 11) built it. Munima (grade 10) is bringing it to life with color. How could I not love my job when it brings me moments like this? #BuildingScientistsForBangladesh @chrfbd.bsky.social! #BSB

Been a hard few days in a hard world. But this picture from our youngest trainees, some only in grade 10, white lab coats, purple gloves, ready to fight for peace with pipettes, petridishes & microscopes, makes it all easy somehow. What a privilege to learn from & with the next generation.

One ceftriaxone-resistant #typhoid case last year set us on a path that is now live on Emerging Infectious Diseases. 47 cases in months, resistance rose from 0 to 5%. We spoke with patients, sequenced samples. 4.3.1.2.B1 lineage+blaCTX-M-15 on pCROB1. #AMR #PublicHealth wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Nothing beats that first streak. The moment you realize you are touching the world of the invisible. This is a trainee at CHRF streaking bacteria for the very first time, as part of the Building Scientists for Bangladesh program. That joy never gets old.

Thanks Illumina for such a fun tour!! Who knew watching flow cells being made could be so thrilling!

What an absolute privilege to represent #Bangladesh at @humancellatlas.org meeting in Singapore with the incredible @chrfbd.bsky.social single-cell genomics team! Grateful to @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social & @gatesfoundation.bsky.social for supporting single-cell genomics capacity in Bangladesh.

শুভ নববর্ষ! Happy Bengali New Year! - from ours to yours ❤️ @chrfbd.bsky.social

Olivia came from Minnesota to Bangladesh to train with us at @chrfbd.bsky.social, learn pathogen genomics in a resource-constrained setting. Now she’s in Belgium, chasing her passion for science. We met in Ghent, caught up, caffeinated, conspired to collaborate. From Dhaka to Ghent… where next?

To the women in science. To the allies in science. To the ones who lift each other up. I spend my life in science, constantly trying to figure out where I fit in. At times, it feels like pushing against an invisible force-one that questions, doubts, resists. But through it all, I am never alone. 🧵

1/ Outbreaks don't stop during holidays. #Surveillance is year-round work and here is an urgent report on an ongoing outbreak of ceftriaxone-resistant #Salmonella #Typhi in Bangladesh. 📄 Findings: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

I made a best friend this week in Geneva. Her name is Rêv. We met at a restaurant. It was definitely love at first sight but she might not know yet that we are BFFs. I will tell when we meet again. Thanks to the friend who introduced us.

Had the amazing opportunity to present our work at HCA Asia. RSV infections are a major health burden amongst children in Bangladesh and we aim to learn about the pathophysiology of RSV infections using single cell sequencing. Stay tuned for more insights from our work!

Can’t be in Hong Kong and not dim sum all day all night!

My heart swells with pride every time I realise that Bangladesh is generating its own single cell data @chrfbd.bsky.social !! Excellent presentation by @yogihooda.bsky.social at the #HCAAsia2024 meeting describing the changes in the nasal mucosa during #RSV infections!

Yes!! @plosgph.bsky.social has arrived! Please follow

Indeed, disease is NOT categorical. Jay Shin and Piero Carninci summarise the breakout session on “Diseases” at the #HCAAsia2024! The title says it all, and what an infographic!

Shyam Prabhakar summarises the challenges in representation of human diversity and then eloquently puts forth the recommendations by the @humancellatlas.bsky.social Diversity Task Force. Much work to do, but this is must work to do! #HCAAsia2024

Amazing overview of the @humancellatlas.bsky.social by Aviv Regev & Sarah Teichman, kicking off #HCAAsia2024 in Hong Kong! Super excited to be here for the next two days!

Aging together, striving to become better scientists together, getting through this world together. 14 years with @yogihooda.bsky.social since our first date night - crazy!!!

Excited to share our preprint on characterizing NACHO, a ER-resident membrane protein that plays an essential role in assembling pentameric ion channels, like GABA and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in our brains. #IonChannels #Neuroscience (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recently, I got an opportunity to present 18 years of impactful research from CHRF in Bangladesh at the 2024 Klebsiella Epidemiology and Biology Symposium in Paris—the first-ever event dedicated to this infection. (1/3)

Seeing you again was so much fun and definitely a highlight of our SF trip! I hope we continue to make memories, fun memories, impactful memories, Jeff!

I happen to know the best data science team of this world! And they happen to be my colleagues at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF)!

আজ দিনটা কেটেছে আমাদের পরিবারের সবথেকে সাহসী, সুন্দরী ও পরিশ্রমী সদস্যদের সাথে। শুধু নারী দিবসের একদিন না, আমাদের প্রতিদিনের অনুপ্রেরণা chrf-এর মাঠকর্মীরা। শিশুদের রোগ ও মৃত্যু কমাতে কাজ করে যেতে চাই একসাথে আজীবন।

Our science communicator is getting married! And of course she has DNA hidden in her mehndi!!

Transforming the tech landscape in Bangladesh! Less than 25% of data scientists are women & we are in a mission to change that! If you are in Bangladesh & want to start coding, join our all-levels Data Science course for women by women! #WomenInDataScience #Empowerment chrfbd.org/pages/buildi...

No pictures in this world make me happier than lab pictures. I had to leave work early today so the lab kept me posted with pictures of running a protein gel to compare protein expression between E. coli & Salmonella Typhi. Might not mean much to many but means the world to me. Science in 🇧🇩 is fun!!