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🚨
#BSP2024
speakers and deadlines! 🚨
- BSP2024 is 𝟐-𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒!
- Poster abstract deadline is 14th March 2024
- Registration & abstract submission at
- Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
#parasitology
#parasites
#NTDs
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Win a copy of Parasitic Diseases! Written by some of the top parasitologists & ID doctors in the field & an educational resource covering all aspects of parasitic diseases. Follow
@pwb_global
&
@BSPparasitology
, like this post & Retweet to enter. Giveaway ends 3/25/22 @ 12pm EST.
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🚨🚨 British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting 🚨🚨
- Dates:𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡 - 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑
- Place: 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐡, Scotland, UK (
@EdinburghUni
)
- Focused Tryps/Leish sessions
- Virtual + in-person
- Diversity session + childcare on-site!
Save the dates!
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🚨 Save the Date! BSP 2024 in Liverpool! 🚨
- Dates: 𝟮-𝟱 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 (Tues-Fri)
- Host: University of Liverpool (
@LivUni
)
- Featuring: EDI & ECR sessions, in-person & remote attendance, Young Parasitologist's Party (YPP), Dinner & Cèilidh, & more
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Happy
#WorldMosquitoDay
commemorating Ronald Ross's discovery of Anopheles as the vector of Plasmodium parasite
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🚨 BSP 2022 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨
Help us to congratulate this year's BSP Award Winners!
CA Wright Medal 2022 - Dr Alvaro Acosta Serrano
BSP President’s Medal 2022 - Dr Joana R. Correia Faria
Honorary Members:
- Prof Mike Ferguson
- Prof Christine Clayton
- Prof Isabel Roditi
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Important announcement from the BSP! We are delighted that our new member of BSP Council with responsibility for social media will be...
🥁...
Dr Joanne Power!!!
@hanniepower
#ParasitesOnline21
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🚨
@institutpasteur
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Neglected Tropical Diseases 🚨
- 30 Jan - 3 Apr, 2024
- In English, completely FREE, 9 weeks (~3 h 30 m per week)
- Registration open until 26 March '24
- All details & registration available at
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Congratulations to Professor Christiane Hertz-Fowler on her appointment at Head of Infection and Immunobiology at
@wellcometrust
from Oct 2019
@Christi_Fowler
@livuniIIB
@livuninews
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Congratulations to Dr Mattie Pawlowic who wins the first British Society for Parasitology President's Medal which recognises outstanding early career researchers
@goldenpipette
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BSP Spring Meeting Announcement! The Spring Meeting of the British Society for Parasitology 2022 will take place at
@UniOfYork
from the 21st - 25th of March, 2022! Look out for updates here & at ! And April 2022 marks 60 years of the BSP!
#parasitology
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Huge congratulations to Professor Matt Higgins who has been awarded this year's C.A. Wright medal by the British Society for Parasitology
@ParasiteMatt
👏
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With today being
#WorldHepatitisDay2021
, let's not forget that many parasites can cause inflammation of the liver. Fascioliasis in humans is a neglected tropical disease (
#ntd
) & is caused by F. hepatica & F. gigantica. Here's a great lifecycle image from the
@CDCgov
.
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Today is the first World Chagas Day. Chagas Disease is a neglected tropical disease which affects an estimated 6-7 million people worldwide
#WorldChagasDiseaseDay
#WorldChagasDay
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🚨 Advanced
@ESCMID
course - parasitic infections! 🚨
- Online course from 10-11th October 2023
- For med. microbiologists, pathologists, researchers, senior techs with clinical
#parasitology
/pathology experience.
- Registration at
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With the British Society for Parasitology (
#BSP
) turning 60(!!) in April 2022, we were wondering... would you like to design our 60th Anniversary logo? The 50th
#BSP
logo is shown below! If you would like to submit a design, send it to
@jameslac1
at James.LaCourse
@lstmed
.ac.uk
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🚨 BSP free Autumn Symposium 🚨
- Our rescheduled Autumn symposium will take place virtually on 𝗠𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟰𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯!
- Free to all BSP members!
- Register at
- Abstract deadline this Friday the 17th Nov!
#parasitology
#onehealth
#NTDs
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Today is
#WorldMalariaDay
. Thank you to all those working across the globe to understand and control this devastating disease
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𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟬:Wojciech “Al” Krotoski et al publish a report in the British Medical Journal describing a dormant liver stage of
#Plasmodium
cynomolgi in Rhesus macaques. These dormant liver stages, called "hypnozoites" are postulated to be the cause of relapses of this
#malaria
species
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A huge thank you to everyone who made
#BSP60York
wonderful & memorable! Big thank you to
@JuhszAl39340331
for designing our 60th Anniversary logo! Can you spot yourself in the collage of happy faces? Our 2022 Autumn meeting will be in
@KeeleUniversity
later this year!
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BSP Spring Meeting Announcement! The BSP Spring Meeting will take place at
@UniOfYork
from the 21st - 25th of March, 2022! Abstract submission is open until
𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮! REGISTER/submit abstracts at !
#BSP2022
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Congratulations to Prof Jeremy Farrar on the announcement of his knighthood today for services to global health
@JeremyFarrar
@wellcometrust
🥂
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🚨 Save the date! 🦠🦟🪱🧫
The BSP 2022 Autumn Symposium will take place at
@KeeleUniversity
on Monday 19th - Tuesday 20th of September!: "Achieving Impact in
#Parasitology
: Learning Lessons from Interdisciplinary Research & Community Engagment."
More info in the coming weeks!
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True! ⬇️
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A huge achievement: fexinidazole is approved to treat Human African Trypanosomiasis. Orally administered, safe and effective at both early and late stages of the disease
It’s official: EMA has approved fexinidazole to treat
#sleepingsickness
!
A doctor’s dream of a simple all-oral cure becomes reality.
Travel to the DRC to discover what
#makingmedicalhistory
means for doctors and patients:
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Beautiful! Tokyo museum explores the world of parasites
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🚨 OneZoo Centre for Doctoral Training - 20 PhD studentships available for Oct 2023! 🚨
- Details available at
- Projects at
-
#Parasitology
PhDs available
- At
@cardiffuni
,
@AberUni
,
@LSHTM
, &
@QUBelfast
!
- Deadline 1st May '23!
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A fantastic achievement - Malawi eliminates lymphatic filariasis
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We are so lucky at
#BSP2024
to have our Day 2 beginning with our plenary speaker, Prof Sir Adrian Hill of
@JennerInstitute
at
@UniofOxford
who is telling us about "Malaria vaccines - at last!"!
#malaria
#Plasmodium
#parasitology
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Fantastic news - Togo 🇹🇬 has been validated by
@WHO
as the first country in Africa to have eliminated human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem
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🚨
#BSP2024
Liverpool: Registration is OPEN! 🚨
- BSP Spring Meeting 2024: 2-5th April 2024!
- Registration & Abstract submission at
- Abstract deadline: Weds 14th Feb, 2024
- Session & workshop schedule coming together at
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Our Parasites Online conference begins today! 🎤
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🚨 European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP) 2024 (
@EMOP2024
) 🚨
- Held every 4 years & hosted in 2024 by the Polish Parasitological Society in Wrocław!
- August 26-30th 2024
- Registration & abstract submission at
-More at
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𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬: It was in 1970 that the full life cycle of
#Toxoplasma
gondii was described for the 1st time by Frenkel et al. Nowadays, the micro- and macro- gametocyte stages in the cat intestine are rarely studied, so the Frenkel et al. (1970) micrographs are still informative.
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🚨 We have the dates set for
#BSP2024
at Liverpool Uni! 🚨
More information on scientific sessions and speakers to come, but keep these dates free in your calendar: 𝟮-𝟱 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰! Start getting excited!
#parasitology
@LivUni
@LSTMnews
🚨 Save the Date! BSP 2024 in Liverpool! 🚨
- Dates: 𝟮-𝟱 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 (Tues-Fri)
- Host: University of Liverpool (
@LivUni
)
- Featuring: EDI & ECR sessions, in-person & remote attendance, Young Parasitologist's Party (YPP), Dinner & Cèilidh, & more
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New studies show how to save parasites and why it's important
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Many congratulations to Dr Emma Briggs on winning the 2020 BSP President's medal!
@emmabriggs6
@WCIPGLASGOW
@SBSatEd
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We have an excellent programme of speakers confirmed for our Spring meeting at
@OfficialUoM
on 15-17 April 2019. Registration will open very soon via our website
@kathelse
@andymiah
@DrJosephTurner
@sheencr
@mebottazzi
@flamcatt
@Moritz_Treeck
@FrickelLab
@HenryMcSorley
@walker
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The Woods Hole
@MBLBoP
Biology of Parasitism summer course will be running online this year for free! Highly recommended!
@striepenlab
Have you always wanted to take an MBL summer course? Or are you one of our alums? Since we can't bring students to Woods Hole this year, we're bringing the MBL to you with MBL Virtual Programming of our most popular classes!
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Merry Christmas and a very happy new year from the British Society for Parasitology! 🎄🦟🐛🦠🐚🎁
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🚨
#BSP2023
Wrap-up! 🚨
Tues 11th - Day 1: Welcome + Registration
Weds 12th - Day 2:
Thurs 13th - Day 3:
Fri 14th - Day 4:
-The links above open live-tweets from
@BSPparasitology
for each day!
#parasitology
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In 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟲, the eminent parasitologist P. Cyril C. Garnham published his "magnum opus", the 1132-page encyclopaedia of
#malaria
parasites, "Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia". After 56 yrs, images from this book are still used as references across the world.
#Plasmodium
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Welcome to Day 2 (first scientific sessions) of
#BSP2023
at
@EdinburghUni
in beautiful McEwan Hall! You can register each morning at McEwan Hall & make sure to pick up your abstract book & lanyard!
#parasitology
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Thank you so much to all the organisers, presenters, sponsors and participants of
#ParasitesOnline21
which was our first online BSP conference. We hope you enjoyed the meeting. Apologies that we couldn't offer a ceilidh this year
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🚨
#Parasitology
Postdoc Job at the University of York 🚨
- 3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate position
- Details available at
-
#Trypanosoma
brucei research with Dr Mathieu Cayla
- Informal enquiries to mathieu.cayla
@york
.ac.uk
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🚨World NTD Day🚨
We are proud to announce that the BSP Council have officially signed the Kigali Declaration, a political document that demonstrates commitment to help eliminate or control
#NTDs
. More information on the Kigali Declaration at
@CombatNTDs
:
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Congratulations to Dr Mattie Pawlowic, recipient of the first BSP Presidents Medal
@goldenpipette
@WCAIRDundee
@dundeeuni
#BSPMan2019
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Important article on promoting
#genderequality
in parasitology by
@EliseTweetsBio
@hanniepower
and
@elenagomezdiaz
@WiParasitology
#TrendsEditorsPick
@EliseTweetsBio
@hanniepower
and
@elenagomezdiaz
came together to write this powerful piece on promoting
#genderequality
in
#parasitology
@WiParasitology
@womeninmalaria
@TrendsParasitol
:
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Many congratulations to Prof Russ Stothold who wins the 2019 British Society for Parasitology C.A. Wright Medal
@StothardRuss
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BSP 2021 online meeting; 21-25 June 2021; registration and abstract submission NOW OPEN! Registration £90 members, £30 students; FREE for low income countries. Please slot us into your diaries!
For more details see:
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Parasites: Battle for Survival. New exhibition at National Museum of Scotland from 6th Dec 2019 until 19th April 2020
@WCAIRDundee
@edin_EID
@WCIPGLASGOW
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Giant trypanosome found on Mars
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Registration now open!!
Register for the
@BSPparasitology
virtual conference
#ParasitesOnline2021
on June 21-25. Speakers include
@Berriman_mb4
@rejoicePhD
@EliseTweetsBio
@elenagomezdiaz
@neilhall_uk
@ParasiteMatt
@ProfAndrewMac
@ReeceLab
@Bernd_AquatEcol
and many more!
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🚨 MiSAC (Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee) News 🚨
- MiSAC provides resources for schools within the UK
- This year's competition is on
#NTDs
& Climate Change (deadline 1st Apr '24)
- Grants of £250-£1k also available (deadline 31st May '24:
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🚨 Submit abstracts by TOMORROW (21st March!) for
#BSP2023
🚨
- Presenter abstracts due tomorrow!
- Abstracts for posters only by 28th March!
- Registration open until 11th April (Day 1)
- Register at
- Day rates available!
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Register now for our trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasiasis meeting in Granada, Spain in March 2020!
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Now with all links working, we're starting Session 2 of Combative Strategies: Vaccines with a talk from Delphine Autheman at York Uni: "An invariant
#Trypanosoma
vivax vaccine antigen eliciting protective immunity".
#BSP60York
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A very happy
#InternationalWomenDay2020
to all our female parasitologists!
@WiParasitology
@womeninmalaria
@UN_Women
Tu Youyou discovered a substance called artemisinin, which can be used to treat malaria. Tu not only found a way to extract artemisinin from a traditional Chinese medicine, she also tested the new drug on herself to speed up the time needed for development.
#IWD2020
#NobelPrize
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Here they are:
#BSP2023
Poster Prize winners with their certificates and prize
#Parasitology
books!
1st Prize:
@Aro_Nugawela
2nd Prize: Noelle Thundathil of
@HPI_network
3rd Prize:
@sophiadonvito
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Very sad to hear that molecular parasitologist Prof Paul Englund has passed away. His work contributed greatly to our understanding of kinetoplast DNA replication and GPI biosynthesis. Also co-founder of
@MBLBoP
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Beautiful 😍
Just look at this beautiful Leishmania cell! I case you missed it, go and check out two recent pre-prints on expansion microscopy in kinetoplastids. One from Varga lab and another one from Ochsentreiter lab
@OchsenreiterL
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Our
#BSP2024
C.A. Wright Medal winner is Prof Andy Fenton of
@LivUni
who gave our final keynote talk of the conference: "Seeking simplicity in the complexity: the community epidemiology of multihost/multiparasite systems."
#parasitology
#ecology
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Apologies for some internet issues during
#BSP2024
Day 3! We had some amazing speakers this morning! Here are a few of our excellent 'Cellular Heterogeneity' session speakers: Dr James Wasmuth, Lara López Escobar, Dr Gabriel Rinaldi, Fatima Taha, & Dr Jim Collins!
#parasitology
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We have just released the details of our 2021 conference which will be held online in June. See our website for more information
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There are new dates for the next
@WorldLeish
meeting which was scheduled for 2021 in Colombia. Due to the ongoing pandemic, this meeting will now be held on 23-28 May 2022
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Today we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Parasitology needs diversity!
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#womeninparasitology
#WomenInMalaria
@unwomenEU
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Latin American Biology of Parasitism (LatAmBoP) 2020 - great opportunity for early career researchers! See link below for details on the course and how to apply
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Congratulations to Prof Mike Ferguson on the announcement of his knighthood today for services to science
@WCAIRDundee
@DDU_Dundee
🥂
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BSP announcement! The Council of the British Society for Parasitology are looking to recruit THREE new council members for 3 years each! Applicants are welcomed from student, early career researcher, & senior members! The announcement is at on our website!
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🚨 14th European Multiloquium of Parasitology (EMOP) conference update! 🚨
- Registration for
#EMOP2024
in July (in beautiful Wrocław, Poland) is now OPEN at
- Abstract deadline: 1st May 2024
- More details about the conference at
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Congrats to our poster prize winners! L-R Student: 1 Duncan Wells, 2 Jennifer Noonan, 3 Nicolas Feldman; Postdoc: 1 Paul Airs, 2 Paul McCusker, 3 Oliver Weth. Thanks for contributing!
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A take-away from today's "Diversity in Science" session: we should make each Diversity Session a Keynote Session because everyone needs to hear these issues. There is a 2nd session on Thursday from 10:30 - 11:20 AM, but we need to keep addressing inequality. Follow
@BParasitology
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Today is
#WorldNTDDay
& NTDs include many parasitic infections such as "River Blindness" (onchocerciasis), echinococcosis, "Guinea Worm" disease & more. Today,
@CombatNTDs
is
#100PercentCommitted
to helping the
@WHO
eliminate at least 1 NTD from 100 endemic countries by 2030!
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Check out the flyer for the year's BSP Spring Meeting! Please post to your departments, and register for the event:
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Day 3 of
#BSP2023
begins today with our
@SPPIRITnetwork
ECR session! SPPIRIT is an excellent ECR organisation for parasitologists working in Scotland, but all ECRs will benefit from the expertise today in publishing & attracting funding!
#parasitology
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Congratulations to Prof Russell Stothard, recipient of the 2019 BSP C. A. Wright Memorial Medal
#BSPMan2019
@StothardRuss
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Congratulations to our new Honorary Members: Prof Simon Croft, Prof Diana Williams and Prof Josef Vercruysse for outstanding contributions to parasitology
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🐝 Welcome to all our delegates arriving in Manchester for our Spring meeting today. Follow highlights of the meeting on
#BSPman2019
🐝
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Just announced: 30 January 2020 will be the first World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
#WorldNTDDay
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Congratulations from the British Society for Parasitology to the film Parasite on winning 4 Academy Awards!
#Oscar2020
@ParasiteMovie
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Fantastic achievement!
Côte d'Ivoire🇨🇮 has officially eliminated “sleeping sickness”! The country is the second African country to eliminate the disease, with the last case reported in 2019
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Congratulations to
@McCulloch_Group
and
@SheinerLab
!
Congratulations to
@McCulloch_Group
on his recent appointment to Head of
@UofGlasgow
Parasitology, and to
@SheinerLab
on her appointment to Deputy Head!
@iiiglasgow
@UofGMVLS
@BSPparasitology
#TeamUofG
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We are so sorry to hear that Dr Hector Díaz Albiter has passed away. We send deepest condolences to his family and friends and all who knew him. Messages, stories and photos can be posted on this page for his family:
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The Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology meeting in Woods Hole is on April 27th – May 1st. Follow the meeting on
#KMCB2019
#KMCB19
@MBLScience
@parasitesrule
@MBLBoP
@eupathdb
@PLOSPathogens
@PLOSNTDs
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🚨 New
#parasite
workshop: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬! 🚨
> 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2022! <
Both an online webinar (27-28 Oct) with registration at:
AND...
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Congratulations to Professor Sarah Reece, winner of the 2020 BSP C.A. Wright medal who is presenting her lecture today 🏅
Congratulations to our esteemed leader, Sarah Reece, giving her 2020 Wright Medal lecture shortly at the
@BSPparasitology
online meeting
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🚨 BSP Spring Meeting 2023 Registration OPEN!🚨
- Abstract submission deadline: 21-Mar-2023
- Registration deadline: 11-Apr-2023
- LMIC BSP member remote attendance: £10
- Other BSP discounted members' rates for online/in-person attendance!
Link at:
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Congratulations to
@DrLiamMorrison
on major new grant from
@BBSRC
to study drug resistance in animal African trypanosomiasis
@roslininstitute
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Incredible...
This zombie snail. A parasitic worm Leucochloridium has taken over its motor functions and eye stalks, making them into caterpillar mimics so birds will eat them. The worm can then reproduce in the bird's GI tract, eventually transmitting via its faeces 🤯
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