{"id":202,"date":"2025-09-12T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:37:35","slug":"jasons-second-paper-published-our-venture-into-amoebal-chemoresponses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2025\/09\/12\/jasons-second-paper-published-our-venture-into-amoebal-chemoresponses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason&#8217;s second paper published: our venture into amoebal chemoresponses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Jason on the publication of his second paper in PLoS Pathogens! This paper considers the amoeba\ud83e\udda0 C.owczarzaki, which is a predator of diverse organisms, including the schistosome parasites that reside with it in Biomphalaria glabrata snails. Experiments by Sonya Quick and others in the Gerdt group showed that the amoeba is both chemotactic and chemokinetic, and our simulations predicted that even just the latter is beneficial to predation. This was a wonderful serendipitous collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/gerdt.lab.indiana.edu\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gerdt.lab.indiana.edu\/index.html\">Gerdt lab<\/a> at Indiana University. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.ppat.1013440\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.ppat.1013440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-1024x824.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-1024x824.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-768x618.png 768w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-1536x1237.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-2048x1649.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2025\/09\/Snap_0-373x300.png 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jason on the publication of his second paper in PLoS Pathogens! This paper considers the amoeba\ud83e\udda0 C.owczarzaki, which is a predator of diverse organisms, including the schistosome parasites that reside with it in Biomphalaria glabrata snails. Experiments by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2025\/09\/12\/jasons-second-paper-published-our-venture-into-amoebal-chemoresponses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}