The parasitologists of the Research Group BiTElab within the CMK UHasselt at Universiteit Hasselt are well-represented at the annual scientific meeting of the Belgian Society of Parasitology and Protistology!

View of Brussels from the Eurostar on Saturday on my way to the 2024 meeting of British Ecological Society in Liverpool to present about #mangroves and #malaria. Now on my last leg towards Liverpool (after a small weekend stopover in Exeter). #GreenOfficeUHasselt

End of the year shootout of our mangrove-EcoHealth project by FWO Stay tuned for more updates for more mangrove and malaria updates soon... BiTElab CMK UHasselt SERM Wood Lab IRD.fr LEMAR

Conference time at #BES2024. I presented our study on malaria prevalence in proximity to mangrove forests. Thanks British Ecological Society for the organisation of the event and Chelsea L. Wood Farid DAHDOUH-GUEBAS Maarten Vanhove and Olexiy Kyrychenko for working on this study with me

That's a wrap! There’s nothing quite like witnessing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year. Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!

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Beautiful SEM pictures from new research of our team on trematode parasites! PhD student Miriam Shigoley studied, in impressive detail, the morphology of clinostomid flatworms infecting Nile tilapia in Kenya, w/ Kenya Fisheries Service & National Museums of Kenya preprints.org/manuscript/202…

⚠️#NewPaperAlert🚨 #MachineLearning models accurately predict clades of proteocephalidean tapeworms (Onchoproteocephalidea) based on host and biogeographical data By Vieira Alves et al doi.org/10.1111/cla.12… #Phylogenetics #Biogeography #HostParasiteEvolution #Cladistics

A big thank you to the Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) 🖥️ for providing their amazing resource for our study in BMC Biology on the evolution of parasite stress responses and for now covering our study on their website! vscentrum.be/post/adaptive-…