{"id":2267,"date":"2024-09-26T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:01:01","slug":"new-publication-ad-honorem-faculty-dr-joel-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/2024\/09\/26\/new-publication-ad-honorem-faculty-dr-joel-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication ad-honorem Faculty Dr. Joel Vega Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row type=&#8221;vc_default&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2271&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Dr. Joel Vega Rodr\u00edguez<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Director of the Parasitology and Molecular Entomology Unit<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAID Malaria and Vector Research Laboratory, NIH<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Photo taken in the interview with Dr. Joel Vega on March 27, 2024 about his work and recent research. During his visit to our School of Medicine, he gave the seminar: Seminar: Beyond Bloodsucking: How Mosquito Adaptation to Hematophagy Shaped the Transmission of Malaria Parasites Workshop \/ Section 1 and 2: \u201cHost and Vector Interactions in Malaria Infections\u201d,\u00a0Lab Workshop: Exflagellation assay for antiplasmoidal compounds. This interview is part of the 75th Anniversary of the School of Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Microbiology Department is happy to share the latest publication by Dr Joel Vega titled <strong>Mosquito salivary apyrase regulates blood meal hemostasis and facilitates malaria parasite transmission <\/strong>The study \u00a0shows that mosquitoes ingest a substantial amount of apyrase during blood feeding, which reduces coagulation in the blood meal by enhancing fibrin degradation and inhibiting platelet aggregation.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats Joel!![\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2269&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-52502-3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Download complete article&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;sm&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-024-52502-3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microbiology Department is happy to share the latest publication by Dr Joel Vega titled Mosquito salivary apyrase regulates blood meal hemostasis and facilitates malaria parasite transmission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-6","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/09\/dr-joel-vega.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}