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All welcome, but ECRs and students are particularly encouraged to join @IbahcmT @SPPIRITnetwork @UofGlasgow @BBSRC @sangerinstitute

Speakers will include Collette Britton, Cedric Neveu, Vicky Hunt, Stephen Doyle, Sarah Buddenborg, Tess Attenborough, Paul Airs, Jennifer McIntyre, Claude Charvet and Murray Selkirk.

Registration now open: 'challenges, opportunities and new technologies for functional validation of parasitic nematode genes' A BBSRC-funded meeting at the University of Glasgow 1st-2nd March 2023. Free to attend but limited to 40 places. More info here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/parasitology…

Today's profile comes from @ro_panarese, a postdoctoral research associate at @UofGlasgow. She uses Next Generation Sequencing in combination with targeted enrichment to characterise human and animal isolates of Giardia duodenalis. #WomenInParasitology #WomenInSTEM #Parasitology

(1/2) New SPPIRIT Workshop: We will be hosting an online session to support ECRs who wish to apply to @SULSAtweets ECR Development Fund. When: 9 Dec 2022, 12:00-14:00 Where: Online (more to follow) Sign up: bit.ly/3DtjVQL About the fund: sulsa.ac.uk/ecr-developmen…

New research a welcome boost for tackling drug resistance in parasitic worms that infect livestock. Helminth infection is responsible for over €600 million in production losses in Europe each year @FarmersWeekly fwi.co.uk/livestock/heal…

Go Sam! Here Sam is showing the latest work from his PhD - a metabolomic analysis of ivermectin treatment in a resistant isolate of Haemonchus contortus

Really pleased with our paper in @IJPara from @JannekeWit and great group of collaborators on detecting genomic signatures of benzimidazole drug selection by genome-wide scanning of natural field populations of Haemonchus contortus doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpa…

A new study has mapped the genes linked to drug resistance in the parasitic worm 𝘏𝘢𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴 for the first time 🪱💉 Find out more ⤵️ sanger.ac.uk/news_item/resi…

Late to the party, but big thanks to everyone involved in this work - a real team effort, but particularly stellar work (as ever) by @stephenrdoyle - really delighted to have been part of this.

Announcement: Engaging workshop for parasitology researchers actively seeking fellowships. Sign up here (before 11/10/2022): forms.gle/w1fj1ECjaQoaC8…

3 days to go! Looking forward to SPPIRIT's #ECR Symposium, taking place at @MoredunComms on 26 Sept. Excellent line up of speakers and posters by #parasitologists from across Scotland. Follow us for updates on the day #sppiritmeet

Super talk today by visiting PhD student Emily Francis from @JanSlapeta lab at University of Sydney. Neat use of nemabiome sequencing for AR surveillance in domestic and wild ruminants - paper coming soon!

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Antonopoulos for passing his PhD viva on Friday! Thanks to external examiner Prof Jane Hodgkinson @jane_jhodgkin, internal examiner Prof Willie Weir @VDS_GlasgowVet and convenor Dr Rob Coultous @RobCoultous

Excellent pre-viva talk by @AlistairAntono1 on his development of molecular assays for levamisole resistance in parasitic worms - best of luck for next Friday!

And congratulations to Jenni for winning best talk at the UoG Computational Biology Conference! 🤩

Out now! Jenni McIntyre's latest paper describing moxidectin use on Scottish sheep farms and highlighting need for better product labelling. This was a project that Jenni designed and won her own funding for (Steve Bishop Award). Great effort Jenni and thanks to everyone involved

Don’t miss out on our next free event… ECR research symposium at Moredun in Edinburgh. Registration due Monday August 15th!

Please RT: Post-doc in immunoparasitology @UofGVet! Full-time, available immediately, funding to 5.11.23. Informal enquiries to Prof Collette Britton (Collette.Britton@glasgow.ac.uk) jobs.ac.uk/job/CSF823/res…