Congratulations to Marina on winning a poster prize at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge!

Her poster “Geographic-specific variation in diagnostic targets of soil-transmitted helminths” presents part of an ongoing large-scale analysis to compare the genetic diversity of parasites sampled from faecesfrom around the world, and determine if this variation will impact molecular diagnostic tools used to detect them. Keep an eye out for a paper in the new year!

Very happy to be invited to give a talk at the upcoming Anti-helmintics: Drugs, Resistance & Vaccines V meeting at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, on March 1-3, 2022.

Will have to remember how to pack a bag, its been a while!

Check out the conference website - should be a good one, and I looking forward to catching up with old colleagues and meeting some new ones.

Very excited to be invited to join Cinzia Cantacessi in advising new PhD candidate Marina Papaiakovou. Marina will be investigating the interaction between the microbiome and soil-transmitted helminth infections on treatment and disease outcomes. Starting off with a wealth of knowledge and experience in STH diagnostics with DeWorm3 and access to some amazing sample collections, it is going to be an exciting PhD!

It is finally here! A new lab website, just in time to welcome some exciting new publications about to be release and new lab members joining the group. Stay tuned!