Successfully passed my viva voce yesterday 🙌 💪🐍 Big thank you to my examiners J La Course and Prof Ana Moura da Silva, to my supervisor Nick Casewell at Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, and to @Carrie_Barrett for being the best TDB pal for the past ten years #PhD #phdlife #venom

Introducing our new MSc One Health in Tropical Disease – integrating core principles of biology and investigative disciplines to address infectious diseases affecting both humans and animals in tropical and subtropical regions. Learn more - lstm.ac/OneHealth

LSTM This program sounds like a great step forward in tackling important health issues in tropical regions. Excited to see how this innovative approach will make a difference for both humans and animals. Best of luck to everyone involved in this important work!

I am really happy to share that I passed my PhD viva on Tuesday! A big thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout the last 4 years. Thank you to my examiners for a great viva and interesting discussion! #PhDone #schistosomiasis #genomics #PZQ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Natural History Museum 🪱

Our next poster presentation is from Guilleary Deles, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, on #FGS, #Tv, and #HPV: Co-infection dynamics within the HUGS sub-study cohort at three infection time points within Nsanje and Mangochi Districts, Malawi #RSTMH2024

We are now hearing from our final poster presenter Fatima Ahmed, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, on The dynamics of Male Genital Schistosomiasis (MGS) at Nsanje and Mangochi districts, Malawi over a 1-year sub-study period #RSTMH2024

Tamar Ghosh, RSTMH CEO, closes Research in Progress London 2024 by presenting awards for best abstract and poster presentations to Maria Puthoor and Guilleary Deles respectively #RSTMH2024

Huge congratulations to our MSc Tropical Disease Biology student, Guilleary Deles, for winning the Best Poster Prize at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Research in Progress conference in London! Her Distinction-level dissertation project on schistosomiasis in Malawi made a significant impact.

Our thanks to The Royal Society for hosting a 2-day meeting on hybrid schistosomes in Africa Lucas Cunningham Janelisa Musaya Juhász Alexandra Global Schistosomiasis Alliance LSTM Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme #Onehealth

Forum in our February issue: #Schistosoma #mattheei & #zoonotic #schistosomiasis, by Russell Stothard Juhász Alexandra & Janelisa Musaya. #Hybrid #Praziquantel #OneHealth Janelisa Musaya LSTM Semmelweis University cell.com/trends/parasit…

We have written a short digest article about Clinton’s paper on Biomphalaria in Lower Shire River Valley lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/bl… Global Schistosomiasis Alliance HUGS Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme

Francesca’s article on management of schistosomiasis across Europe now online - a great international effort sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very honoured to be a co-author with my colleagues in this Lancet update on human schistosomiasis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Global Schistosomiasis Alliance HUGS Unlimit Health (formerly SCI Foundation) Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme

Our final exit inspection for schistosomes within cattle at abattoir - highlights the chronic nature of future #OneHeath challenges in Malawi HUGS Global Schistosomiasis Alliance Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme

🚨 Calling all parasitology enthusiasts! 🚨 📢 The ISP Meeting 2025 at Queen’s University Belfast! 🏛️🔬 Join top researchers, students, and professionals for two days of exciting talks, networking, and cutting-edge parasitology! 🔗 Info: irishparasitology.com #ISP2025

Pleased to share our new preprint... We took a look into freshwater snail faecal metagenomes in four countries and found environmental #AMR reservoirs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A bitter sweet moment - we are happy to have completed the last fieldwork for HUGS but are a little sad that the project is entering its closing stages lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/bl…

It’s thirty years since I first worked on Zanzibar with HCLU colleagues and David Rollinson - I am really delighted that we still advance our understanding of schistosomiasis there with many old and new colleagues too link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Join us next week, March 11-14, for the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting 2025! This meeting is organized by BSP, DGP & SSTMP. Check out the conference website here: parasitology-meeting.de

This September we look forward to welcoming a new group of MSc students who will study for lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/… led by Juhász Alexandra #Onehealth British Society for Parasitology British Association for Veterinary Parasitology Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ISNTD Imperial School of Public Health LSTM