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...

Is this Christmas?Join me in welcoming the wonderful Czech Society for Parasitology to Blue Sky!! @parazitologiecz.bsky.social They are also selling really amazing 2025 calendars with amazing pictures, reach out to them to see whether they have any left ;)

Prospective PhD students... Please check out this exciting opportunity in Prof. Matt Berriman's lab in Glasgow to investigate how #schistosome eggs interact with tissues of their host to cause #granulomas, co-supervised by yours truly 😊 🪱 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...