Je tu první pořádný slunečný víkend ☀️ A tak preventivně připomínáme infoweb k cerkáriové dermatitidě, vyrážce z koupání v přírodních vodách 🏊🏻‍♂️🤭 www.cerkarie.cz

I've heard a lot about these signs that highlight dog roundworm risk in Dublin’s public parks. Finslly spotred them personally... 🐕💩😁

First evidence of biofluorescence in the fire salamander! 🖤💛 Under UV light, they show striking blue-green and yellow fluorescence in their skin, glands, and secretions. 🦎✨🌟 @royalsociety.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

We found maternal helminth infection can promote antiviral immunity in offspring 🤱🪱 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... Don’t worry, we are not suggesting we reinfect everyone with worms! Instead, we identified a microbiota-derived metabolite, Indole-3-propionic acid, that enhances antiviral immunity!

Schistosome eggs are not the same in the liver and the intestine 🥚🦠 Following our previous “winners & losers” story, we now provide additional evidence by analyzing proteins released by eggs across different tissues! 🔬🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Attending @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting remotely this time 🥲 Not ideal, but still excited to share our latest work on Schistosoma mansoni egg secretome directly in the host tissues! 🔬 🚨 Key message: liver is not intestine 😏

PF 2026 🥳 @parazitologiecz.bsky.social

@charlesuni.cuni.cz is ready 💪🏻🎄

@pnas.org Tattoo ink doesn’t just stay in the skin. 🎨 It drains into lymph nodes (kinda expected), where it can persist for months. 🤔 Ink-loaded macrophages trigger long-term inflammation and can alter vaccine responses. 💉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to contribute to the Parasite of the Month series in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social with our article on the neurotropic schistosome Trichobilharzia regenti! 🧠🔬 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m5yH5Eb1x...

Where would the Arabs have reached if not for the plague that decimated the Byzantine Empire? And how did malaria influence the fight for American independence? 🤔 A light yet fascinating read about the germs that shaped our past — a perfect blend of infection and history. 📖🦠

Skin-penetrating nematodes rely on dopamine signaling to invade their hosts. Blocking dopamine signalization could stop infections before they start. 🔬 @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study out! 🚨 For the first time, we tracked Trichobilharzia franki, a major cause of swimmer’s itch in Europe, in the lab. 🪱🔬 From genetics to pathology & immunity, our findings shed new light on this tricky parasite and its role in outbreaks. doi.org/10.1016/j.fa...

Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026! Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission! Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟

Cool meeting at @sciencecharles.bsky.social right now! 🪱🔬

Second stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Denmark! 🇩🇰🐌🦆 We sampled in various sites – even right in the heart of Copenhagen! 🌊🏙️ Great teamwork, hands-on training, and more data for our #eDNA detection of swimmer’s itch. 🧬 @zikmund.bsky.social 🔗 natur.cuni.cz/en/biology/d...

Truly a most neglected tropical disease. More common than other filarial nematode diseases and yet largely ignored. www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Thelazia callipaeda is an emerging zoonotic nematode responsible for eye infections. A new human case is reported from Rome, Italy. 👁️🪱🍕 @crpvbd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Possibly a new species of Leucochloridium from Japan... I really love these creatures! 😍 doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

I am pleased to present a project we've been working on for the least year to try to answer a fundamental question - does a parasite's developmental niche as an egg have effects on larval stages? We show that the answer is very much yes - which has a few implications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Absolute pleasure to be involved in this review article on sustainable parasite control in ruminants. Full of lovely stuff on vaccines, nutrition, genetics, grazing and biological control! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't miss this opportunity!

First stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Poland! 🐌🦆 We met with @ankarn.bsky.social (thank you! 🙏🏻) to exchange knowledge on bird schistosomes and swimmer's itch and, mainly, share our experience with water filtration and #eDNA detection. 🧬

New paper today: Isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from the placenta of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and potential transplacental transmission of the parasite 🧪 doi.org/10.1051/para...

In schistosome 🪱-endemic areas, people are repeatedly reinfected — but we still don’t fully understand how T cell responses develop in these cycles. In my first ever last-author paper (😱) we investigate this, comparing endemic and repeat controlled human schistosome infection: rdcu.be/exH58

New research w/ @jacobphd.bsky.social et al. published today in Nature Communications: Genes linked to schistosome resistance identified in a genome-wide association study of African snail vectors doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🐌🪱🧬

🔬 Věda má smysl, když pomáhá v praxi! Vyvíjíme proto metodu pro rychlou detekci původců cerkáriové dermatitidy pomocí #eDNA. 🦆🐌🏊🏻 Honza a Jana to skvěle vysvětlují v reportáži @radiozurnal.bsky.social – díky! 📻 📍 @sciencecharles.bsky.social @ukforum.cuni.cz 🔗 radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/ptaci-motoli...

📢 A major study on alveolar echinococcosis 🦊🫐🪱 in Europe reveals over 4,200 human cases, with hotspots in the Alps and Baltics. @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A very cool study on the man-o’-war, also known as bluebottle (Physalia). 🌊 The iconic creature is not just one species; it is at least four! 🪼🌍 Despite drifting across vast oceans, they don't mix freely. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

S nástupem letních teplot se nám začínají objevovat první případy cerkáriové dermatitidy (vyrážky z koupání). Víme už o dvou lokalitách ve Středních Čechách. ☀️🏊🏻‍♂️ Tak je možná fajn tu připomenout web pro veřejnost, který jsme k tématu připravili: www.cerkarie.cz 😉

New publication out today! 🥳 Honza and @zikmund.bsky.social 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! @sciencecharles.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s130...

@nature.com surveyed over 5k researchers worldwide on the ethics of using AI in scientific writing. Great community-based study. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

▶️ More and more Alzheimer’s researchers, including former skeptics, are opening up to the possibility that infection contributes to neurodegeneration. 🧠 Happy to see this comment on the Alzheimer's disease infectious hypothesis published in @nature.com. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

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! 😅 👉 @parasitejournal.bsky.social 🔗 www.parasite-journal.org/articles/par...

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

Don't miss this wormy meeting! 🔜 Only 9 days left before early bird registrations close. @parazitologiecz.bsky.social 👀 hd2025.natur.cuni.cz

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

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

@lukykony.bsky.social sharing nice data on enignatic VAL proteins in schistosomes. 🤩 Happy to add some pieces to the project!

Happy to be at the parasitology joint meeting in Würzburg! Thanks to all organizers! 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭 @bspparasitology.bsky.social

What a great cover image! 😍

Uploading memories, September 2020. They said 'yes'... #viva #passed 👨🏻‍🎓