
A.J. Phillips
@annalida500
Curator of parasitic worms, gummi worms, misc. inverts | #Leeches #parasites #invertebrates #evolutionarybiology #systematics | NC native | Views are my own.
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16-02-2012 22:24:25
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My only suggestion is that a bucket needs to be added as a Tool of the Trade John Pfeiffer Dr. Bronwyn W. Williams


Great NMNH Invert Zoology seminar today by Ashleigh Smythe Virginia Military Institute on marine #nematodes being moved around on #tsunami debris #parasite Helminth Society DC




Thank you to everyone involved in our Helminth Society DC Spring Meeting 👏- great talks on all kinds of amazing parasites 🪱we hope to see everyone again for our Fall 🍂meeting later in the year, which may even be in-person 🤞🤞


📢 Last day to register for #AmericanSocietyofParasitologists-meeting #ASPmtg2021 Glad to take part: talks by Stephen Bullard & Louis DuPreez, Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️🌈 & Geoffrey Boxshall, @FlorianReyda, Vasyl Tkach, me & Jean-Lou Justine, and many others. Abstracts➡️ amsocparasit.org

Smithsonian NMNH scientist Anna Phillips teamed up with NC Museum of Natural Sciences scientist Bronwyn Williams to describe a new species of crayfish worm: Pterodrilus leiteri. The worm has a symbiotic relationship with crayfish, which means that the two animals help each other survive and thrive.


I've come full circle. A failed undergrad project seemed to be the end of my work with crayfish worms. Then, I met Dr. Bronwyn W. Williams. Dreams can come true and they can start with a little worm with floofies!

Paper out today in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment examining the state of copepod phylogenetics + reviewing phylogenetic, ecological, and taxonomic data on all clades of parasitic copepods. They've evolved to be parasitic 14+ times! Thanks @crandallkeith & Geoff Boxshall peerj.com/articles/12034

Listen in to #Sidedoor defang #leeches. It was so much fun working with Lizzie, James, Josh, Aram, and Roberto! Lizzie did a great job bringing together performance art, history, and natural history through leeches. NMNH Invert Zoology ASP-Parasitologists


I'm super excited to announce the 2023 Dauphin Island Sea Lab #Meiofauna Diversity and #Taxonomy Workshop! Students will learn all about meiofauna diversity and ID from world experts. Dates: May 10-19, 2023 Application deadline: February 10, 2023 Website: kocotlab.com/2022-disl-meio… Please RT!

Proud to share my first paper using microCT data and co-authored with Freya Goetz to look inside leeches (rdcu.be/c6gVI) in #Zoomorphology NMNH Invert Zoology Smithsonian NMNH #collectionsareessential



Parasite extinction is more complicated than it seems, even to parasitologists. It was really exciting to work with Colin Carlson (the birthday boy) and Emily Driscoll on this video and film in the NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections! Smithsonian NMNH NMNH Invert Zoology
