Aiste Vitkauskaite 🇺🇦

☘️ Even @AisteVit's pet worms go green on St. Patrick's Day! ☘️ A very happy St. Patrick's Day from everyone at the MPL! 🪱💚 This festive fun is made possible thanks to funding from @Researchirel!

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir (Happy Xmas to everyone) from the MPL in Galway! 🎄☃️❄️

Wrapping up a busy and productive year at MPL with our final lab meeting and a yummy festive Christmas lunch 🎄🎉 Huge thanks to all MPL members and colleagues around the world for a fantastic year - we're excited for the cool science the new year will bring! 🪱💉🧪🧬

📢 Don’t miss the chance to hear our PhD candidate @SaoirseEllis present her exciting research at tomorrow’s Institute for Health Discovery and Innovation November Seminar! 🗓 Thursday 13 November 2025 📍 Biomedical Science Building Seminar Room 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Thrilled to welcome you back to the team, Natalia!! 😌♥️

🎉 Congratulations to our outstanding PhD student @EveOKelly3 on receiving the ISP Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award 2025! She shares her research & career journey on the @CambridgeUP blog 👇 Thanks to @JnlParasitology for sponsoring the award! cambridge.org/core/blog/2025…

Great to attend the Sheep 2025 Open Day hosted by our collaborators @teagasc, where we visited the Flock Health display, packed with detailed info on internal and external parasites affecting Irish sheep! 🪱 A brilliant day full of the latest research and practical advice.🐑🌿

Fantastic to catch up with friends & colleagues at this year’s @ISParasitology meeting, hosted by @QUBelfast. We enjoyed excellent presentations by our lab members Jake, Eve, Saoirse, & Deirdre. Thanks to the organisers for a great event - looking forward to the next one! 🪱

Keeping it in the MPL - two years running! 🥳 Well-deserved congratulations to our talented PhD student @EveOKelly3 on winning the Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award for best presentation at this year’s @ISParasitology meeting, presented by ISP president @CJCoatesBio.👏

Another year, and the tradition continues! The Zoology Colloquium brought our department community together for a day of fantastic talks, including from our PhD student @AisteVit, and wrapped up with a tasty, well-deserved BBQ feast! 🔥 🦊🐍🐢🦟🦌🐳🦞#Zoology @SNSUniofGalway

Beautiful paper by my talented PhD student @AisteVit and colleagues published in @Virulence12 - this paper should be a gamechanger. Contact us if you are interested. JohnD Thanks to @Researchirel for funding this great work. Link to the paper below👇: tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

A fantastic day out for the Molecular Parasitology Lab crew, sharing our research and networking at the @uniofgalway College of Science and Engineering Research and Innovation Day 2025!

@nvolpewild Stunning!

The DORITO SPIDER! 🧡 One of the craziest Amazonian spiders, Micrathena exlinae is only one of dozens of these bizarre spiders. We just finished a poster of the Micrathena of Manu, if you want to see it first and help support us raising awareness you can sign up to our Patreon!🥰

We are open for registration! Abstract submission deadline is running for 10 more days or until the 12th of April. See more information on the conference website csbsp11.is

🦠🌍 Our PhD students are continuing World Parasite Awareness Day! Aiste is ‘spreading the worm’ to the @uniofgalway Microbiology Society 🦠🧫🔬 #ParasiteAwareness #LiverFluke

Well done to our PhD student Aiste. 🎉 Give her blog post a read!

** Job vacancy** We are looking for Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join our parasitology group, as part of an EU thematic network funded research project SPARC wormsparc.com Salary: £32,604 - £35,000 (DOE) Closing date: 31/03/2025 Info: moredun.org.uk/careers/postdo…

Once, the truth about the Soviet occupation of the #Baltics was ‘inconvenient.’ Now, calling Russia’s war against #Ukraine what it is has become ‘disrespectful.’ @POTUS is frustrated that @ZelenskyyUa won’t play along. But capitulation can’t be called peace.

It would’ve been a show of strength for the President of the United States to bring the elected leader of Ukraine to the Oval Office and engage with him in a dignified way.   But you would never know that after President Trump’s shameful display. Putin must be overjoyed with today’s theatrics. Following the U.S. vote in alignment with Russia at the United Nations this week, a disturbing pattern has emerged that is contrary to America’s longstanding support of democracy around the world.