In response to the SNAP lapse and the ensuing rush on food banks, students in my lab organized a food & fund drive for a local food bank, Feed My People. Our goal is to raise 500 lbs of food and $500, which would amount to thousands of meals. We'd appreciate your generosity!

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...

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... 🐌🪱🧬

Very excited and proud to release a project that I’ve been thinking about for at least 7 years, well before I started my faculty position. We built an imaging and computational platform from the ground up to help answer some outstanding questions in schistosome miracidia biology.

Our annual Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activity is a yearly highlight of mine. Proud of the students and their 5 poster presentations!

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UWEC students won an unprecedented three (3!) Goldwater Scholarships this year, and our lab member Rachel was one of them! I’m so proud of Rachel’s development as a scientist and excited that she’s been recognized as a future leader. Check out the story on her award: www.uwec.edu/stories/firs...

Now published at IJP:DDR! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to release the first project from my lab, an update of wrmXpress with a graphical user interface: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Where were you when the American biomedical research apparatus collapsed?

Speaking of Google Chrome…as I do at least once a year, this week I tried to force myself to switch to Safari and yet once again failed because it just isn’t a very good piece of software.

Hi everyone! For those of us who have a lab website, it’s simple to use the website domain as your BSKY handle. It’s also possible to provide subdomains for other members of the lab. Checkout their instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Trying to find my way around here. Have created a starter pack for parasitologists. Join, connect and spread the word! go.bsky.app/5UiPsYr

The best thing about research at a PUI is getting to do whatever I want. Excited to see how 3D printing capabilities broadens the types of experiments we can do.