Great to see another successful and productive activity sponsored by our Action! #sciencewithoutborders #Blastocystis #gutmicrobiome COST

Great to visit PreBiomics to explore collaboration on gut microbiome sequencing & discuss their involvement in our COST on #Blastocystis under One Health! Exciting potential for advancing microbiome research together. 🔬🌍 #Microbiome #OneHealth #Collaboration

Today at our group meeting, we welcomed Dr. Anastasios Tsaousis who shared with us knowledge and findings on #gutmicrobiome & BlastocystisCOST! Thank you, Anastasios! (the red bag: sweets from the UK) Here you can check out his team and amazing work: adtsaousis.com

If you're at #ESCMID2025 , swing by booth J21 – say hi, pick up a goodie bag, and fill out the WG1 questionnaire. Why does it matter? Because your insights help us understand and improve #Blastocystis research across Europe and beyond. #COSTAction #Microbiology ESCMID

We would like to thank the ESGCP_ClinicalParasitology for allowing us to present our Action's questionnaire and epidemiological study during their meeting at #ESCMIDGlobal! #ESCMID2025 #ESCMID

We would like to thank Bobbi Pritt, MD for completing our questionnaire on #Blastocystis epidemiology. Here she is posing with Blastie at the #ESCMIDGlobal2025! #ESCMIDGlobal #ESCMID2025

Thrilled to welcome Constance from Université de Lille 🇫🇷 to the Tsaousis LAB @ University of Kent 🇪🇺 University of Kent 🇬🇧 as part of a #COSTAction STSM! She's developing protocols to quantify #Blastocystis in chickens 🐔 — advancing our understanding of parasite colonisation in animal hosts. #OneHealth #STSM

Success at our WG4 Workshop UNIC Health ! Thanks to our WG4 leadership for: vet paper/animal & human microbiome reviews/OA protocols/xenic culture study/DON’Ts guide. COST 📸 #COSTAction #Parasitology

Another publication from our Action! Best of luck with your submission! #Blastocystis #OneHealth #parasites

We’re thrilled to host Dr. Roland Wesołowski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu) at University of Kent’s Tsaousis LAB @ University of Kent 🇪🇺 on an #STSM grant! He’s learning advanced molecular & microscopical methods to detect #Blastocystis. #COSTAction #ResearchExchange #Sciencewithoutborders

I'm so excited to have 'Blasti' join my office! Many thanks to BlastocystisCOST for Blasti and their great work in the field.

was a truly fruitful visit to Istanbul an incredible experience marked by meaningful collaboration with Ozgur Acıbadem Üniversitesi on the detection of Blastocystis parasites in human. Many thanks for my supervisor Dr. Anastasios Tsaousis , eleni gentekaki and BlastocystisCOST COST for suport

#Blastocystis gets some publicity in nature This long-overlooked gut microbe is finally getting the spotlight it deserves. Huge thanks to our BlastocystisCOST Action members whose dedication helped bring Blastocystis to global attention. #Microbiome nature.com/articles/d4158…

New publication: We explore gut #microbiota structure in relation to common gut #protists using 16S+18S rRNA NGS. 🦠 #Blastocystis may shape the microbiome 📷 Giardia + Blastocystis → more eubiosis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Supported by COST CA21105

Another paper out! We investigated #Blastocystis in wild ruminants across the Iberian Peninsula 🇪🇸🇵🇹—adding key insights into its ecology & zoonotic potential. A #OneHealth perspective on the wild side 🌍🦌 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.118… Another paper out! We investigated

🦠 New paper from our Action! We profiled intestinal microbial eukaryotes in humans, animals, water & soil in rural Iraq 🇮🇶! Shared subtypes suggest transmission across compartments. 📄 mdpi.com/2673-6772/5/3/… #OneHealth #Blastocystis #Iraq #Microbiome #PublicHealth

New Publication: "Comprehensive Tools for Culturing #Blastocystis": a standardised toolkit for xenic & axenic culture, media prep, cryopreservation & troubleshooting. A COST Action CA21105 deliverable led by Daisy Shaw & a fantastic team. doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.7…