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Maybe one more favorite cuttie beast from the 2025 parasitology calendar created by Czech Society for Parasitology 😁

"Leaders and managers need to (...) support the development of junior academics rather than driving them to focus on performance metrics and managerial compliance." 🧑🏻‍🎓 Read this and more brilliant insights by Robin Gasser in Trends in Parasitology. cell.com/trends/parasit…

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Emerging infectious diseases: Our colleagues from Biology Centre CAS documented first autochthonous origin of diphyllobothriasis in a popular tourist destination of Lipno lake in Czechia 🇨🇿 which likely marks recent colonization of D. latum on the location 😳 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

New tools for environmental detection of swimmer's itch presented by Honzik from our lab! 🏞🧬 #eDNA #LAMP

Can neurotropic dog roundworms contribute to Alzheimer’s disease? 🐶🧠 Our mouse study provides new insights into this long-debated question! 🤔 #parasitology #neurology #Alzheimers

Don't miss this wormy meeting! 🔜 Only 9 days left before early bird registrations close.

We are newly opening a research direction focused on the diversity and evolution of microsporidia, trypanosomatids, and amoebae in honey bees and in wild bee species. If interested, approach me and join our team! Laboratory of Fish Protistology #GAČR #honeybee #Parasite

Octopus males use a high-precision bite that targets the female’s aorta to inject deadly neurotoxin at the start of copulation! 😮🐙Current Biology 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… 📷: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0

Happy to spread the word about the Molecular Helminthology Meeting 2025! 🧬 Makedonka Mitreva 📅 Sept 22–25, 2025 📍 St. Louis, Missouri 🔗 sites.wustl.edu/molhelm2025/

We were curious about claims linking dog roundworms (causing human larval toxocarosis ☝🏻) to Alzheimer’s disease 🧠🐶. However, no AD-like pathology was found in the mouse model. Sometimes, negative results are welcome! 😅 Parasite - The Journal 🔗 doi.org/10.1051/parasi…

▶️ Bacterial skin infection does not just affect your skin. It can mess with your systemic immunity! 😮 Science Immunology study shows how it changes eosinophils in the bone marrow, leading to long-lasting effects on allergy and lung inflammation. 🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🏆 The ČPS Awards have their winners—congratulations! 🥳 ▶️ Best Master's Thesis: Mgr. Jan Procházka (Charles University) ▶️ Best PhD student First-Authored Paper: Mgr. Kristýna Peterková (Charles University, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague) Congratulations!

New publication out today! 🥳 Honza and Zikmund Bartonicek developed a sensitive molecular toolkit for detecting bird schistosomes, the main culprits behind swimmer’s itch. 🏊🏻🐌 A step forward in molecular surveillance of bird schistosomes! bugbitten 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s13071…

Vzteklina (rabies, lyssa) Pozor, nebagatelizujte škrábnutí ani olíznutí od zvířete v zahraničí. Vzteklina totiž nehrozí jen po pokousání. Při pochybnostech se vždycky poraďte na infekčním oddělení. Kontakty se zvířetem se dělí na 3 kategorie: Kategorie I: neporušená kůže (dotyk