CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

So proud to announce our Soapbox Science #Brussels speakers for 2023 🥳 An amazing 4th edition is awaiting us this summer at Brussels Carrefour de l'Europe!

Enjoying a keynote presentation by Noelia Valderrama B. at Koninklijke Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereniging Zoology at @Naturalis_Sci about citizen science to monitor schistomasiasis.

Hunting 🐌 in the beautiful pond near the The AfricaMuseum! Our ATRAP PhD students Julius Tumusiime & Germain KAPOUR are teaching Belgian MSc students how to sample 🐌 and an e-DNA 🧬 filtering demo by Hugo Gante 🐟🐡🦈🧬 > 7 🐌 species found, even the one transmitting swimmer’s itch ⚠️

For Science, for #WomenInSTEM and just for Fun, we need a few hours of your precious time 🙏 Will you be our volunteer for Soapbox Science on June 24 ? We have such a pretty little form ready for you 🤌 forms.gle/ygY4mUX8YmSgLR…

'Bilharzia is altijd een verwaarloosde ziekte geweest, omdat we er weinig last van hebben. Dat verandert nu ze hier voor de deur staat', vertelt onze collega Tine Huyse in De Morgen over de opmars van exotische muggen en andere insecten. demorgen.be/beter-leven/va…

The #ATRAP (‘Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases’) project has won the international NTD Innovation Prize for its pioneering work on the tropical infectious disease schistosomiasis (bilharzia) in Uganda and DR Congo. Congratulations to the entire team!

A few days have passed since the remarkable Atrap 1 final meeting, and we are still buzzing with excitement! 🚀 It was a fantastic gathering filled with learning and a flood of ideas for Atrap 2. Proud to be part of this awesome project! 🌟 #ATRAP2023 ATRAP

Next up are eight pitches on AI for Medical Applications with a clear call for collaborations 🤝 dr.Keivan Shariatmadar from TU Delft and KU Leuven, pr Geert Meyfroidt from UZ Leuven, Noelia Valderrama B. from KU Leuven, Sebastiaan Moonen from Department of Neurosciences - KU Leuven 🧠 & 🐌 #AIinhealth #AIinmedicine

Noelia Valderrama KU Leuven The AfricaMuseum shares ATRAP's work on unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases🐌 Extensive amount of data Acceptable accuracy Significantly cheaper Empowering communities #Schistosomiasis #BeatNTDs

Representing the 🐌 team of Tine Huyse at the #TropMed23 conference in Chicago, USA. Watch out for our posters on snail microbiomes and distribution modelling, (19 & 21 Oct) and the talk on Citizen Science validation (22 Oct) Noelia Valderrama B.

🤩 #citizenscience to #BeatNTDs ! Check out BMC blog by Noelia Valderrama B. on ATRAP project to empower #community members to: 🗺️&🧐for #schistosomiasis & #fasciolosis snails in their communities. 📉disease surveillance. 📈 community awareness. blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2023…

Hot off the press: first record of the snail host for urinary bilharzia in Western Uganda! Read the full paper of our ATRAP PhD student Julius Tumusiime 👇

Poster prize won by rubenschols at the Belgian Society of Parasitology and Protistology! Second year that the snail-team from Tine Huyse is winning this award 😊🐌! Ellen Decaestecker KU Leuven The AfricaMuseum

Congrats!! 🐌

Come work with me! I'm hiring a PhD student to study ticks in Belgium as a feature of forest land systems. All details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/190997

A shoutout to all the fantastic women in our team! Without them no public outreach about our #citizenscience and ATRAP project at Scivil So grateful 🙏 #InternationalWomensDay2024 imec in Vlaanderen The AfricaMuseum

Wrapping up #ECSA2024 on a blast! 🎉 Mercy Gloria ASHEPET and I, on behalf of ATRAP, extend our heartfelt thanks for the engaging discussions and insightful questions during our talks. Stay tuned for more news on revolutionary citizen science in the GS! 🐌 🫂 The AfricaMuseum KU Leuven

🎉🐌Just published: Our study, co-authored with Julius Tumusiime, reveals how citizen scientists effectively map disease-carrying snails, vital for guiding targeted control efforts in rural SSA! Link: plos.io/3vIPTIN ATRAP The AfricaMuseum KU Leuven Tine Huyse lies jacobs

SO proud to say that #WOCinEEB just surpassed 500 members! We continue to be a positive & supportive affinity space for women of color & non-binary POC in ecology, evolution, & envisci. Online, in-person, at conferences - join us & find your people! wocineeb.org/index.html