Very happy to have contributed to this Parasite of the Month! How many of you have heard about the neurotropic cousin of Schistosoma, the Trichobilharzia regenti? 🪱🧠

It was great to be able to travel to Copenhagen, sample eDNA, have fruitful discussions and overall great time with colleagues from University of Copenhagen!

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...

Easter egg with #parasite eggs. 🥚🪱 What more could one wish for!

Toads (and spring) have arrived to the ponds at @sciencecharles.bsky.social

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Excited for the start of the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting organised by @bspparasitology.bsky.social, DGP & SSTMP! Looking forward to the next couple of days in Würzburg! 🍷 If you are interested in eDNA and Trichobilharzia, come check out our posters in session one and session three! 🪱🧬🥳

To compensate for all the terrible news in the world, here are some 35mm pictures I took couple of dozens of metres below Prague few weeks ago. The new metro tunnels are so impressive (unlike my manual exposure and focusing skills).

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution? We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing! more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It turns out that Planorbarius corneus shells are really useful for when you need to make medals for a departmental competition!

they’re calling it a PhD

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I’m new here, so why don’t I show you some of my study animals! 🪱 The little white speck in the foreground is a #cercaria of #Schistosoma, a #parasite infecting hundreds of millions of people, mostly in Africa! Behind is a #Biomphalaria freshwater snail - it’s intermediate host 🐌