Warmly recommended! Come and push the boundaries of parasitology with two excellent supervisors - look at their track record in terms of their alumni 😉

If that is not enough: Belgium is an upcoming hub for collection-based parasitology! #collectionsareessential

PI on sabbatical going back to the bench

In Darwin's dreampond human impact altered parasite communities of cichlids, our postdoc Tiziana Gobbin BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt found studying historical fish specimens Esther Dondorp thanks to Swiss National Science Foundation Maarten Van Steenberge Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium Nathan Vranken
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Piwi interacting small RNAs are conserved across animals, often are essential for fertility and play a key role in repressing transposable element. And yet... many species (most notably nematodes, but others too) have lost piRNAs completely! Why?

In Darwin's dreampond human impact altered parasite communities of cichlids, our postdoc Tiziana Gobbin BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt found studying historical fish specimens Esther Dondorp thanks to Swiss National Science Foundation Maarten Van Steenberge Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium Nathan Vranken
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ravens are such smart bird!! It looked like he smiled and celebrated after winning the game..

Fond memories of this conference, and of meeting your team!

Lovely to see an alumnus from our research group BiTElab within the CMK UHasselt at Universiteit Hasselt make it this far. You make us proud, Dr Fortunate Mafeta Phaka!

VLIR-UOS is clearly funding the people who make a difference!

Bravo!

Looking forward to work with newly minted PhD Nathan Vranken and his (now former!) co-promoter Maarten Van Steenberge in the BiTElab of the CMK UHasselt at Universiteit Hasselt. We aim to innovate lab practicals in zoology through the digitisation of didactical collections.

Congratulations Laban Musinguzi and supervisors! I still remember when we first met at a workshop on the monitoring of living natural resources in protected areas, organised for the #CEBioS programme in the Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium funded by 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA. So early in your career that was!

Proud of IUCN Parasite Specialist Group team BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt! 3 members of this young @IUCN IUCN Species Survival Commission specialist group, incl. Programme Officer & Steering Committee Member Europe help pave the way for Red Listing of metazoan parasites of animals supported by FWO

A secret superpower of a lab with more than one research topic is that group meetings are a safe space for naive questions - because there are many ‘outsiders’ - and a big idea tends to start out as a naive question.

Impressive work on monitoring and awareness of NTDs!

Honoured & delighted to welcome Dr. marta from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and @csic (Madrid, Spain) at BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt, for her seminar 'Mechanisms of speciation in crater lake cichlids. Host-parasite interactions fuel animal diversification' !

If my typo can make it through endless revision, 3 rounds of review, copy editing, and multiple proofreads, so can your article!!

That amazing paper you spent years on? That amazing breakthrough you had? Very likely you built this following the work of others (very few exceptions), just as others will build off yours. Science is a continuum. Want to leave a lasting legacy in science? Be generous & be kind.

Academia is either:
- Do you have capacity in the next 40 minutes to review this book?
OR
- Apologies for the late response but the past decade has been hectic, still keen to chat?

Me (failing to write) to my colleague (also failing to write): 'how's the writing?'

Handig dat we nu een officiële termijn hebben: alles wat je meer dan 8 maanden geleden gezegd hebt telt niet meer.