Insightful opening presentations on Day 1 & 2 of ISP meeting 2024 SETU_Research, Innovation and Impact Thanks to invited speakers: Dr Pepijn Luijckx SickWaterFlea@TCD Dr Carolina De Marco Verissimo CarolinaVerissimo

And the winner is....... Aiste Vitkauskaite 🏆💐🎉 Congratulations to ISP 2024 recipient of the Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award!! Aiste Vitkauskaite 🇺🇦 Molecular Parasitology at the University of Galway

Congratulations to Aiste Vitkauskaite of the Molecular Parasitlogy Laboratory (MPL) who received the William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award from the Irish Society for Parasitology ISP outgoing president Dr. Peter Stuart and incoming president Dr. Chris Coates.

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Nice to see Richie's Richie and Carolina's CarolinaVerissimo review paper amongst the top 4 papers cited and read in the journal Virulence over the last three years. Well done guys!! You can read it here👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to our brilliant protein production master Eve O'Kelly on the first first-author paper of her PhD! Check out what she has to say about the study in the video below!👇 You can find the article here: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Eve O’Kelly SNS@UniversityofGalway Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

❗️Only 3 days left to register❗️ Don’t miss the FREE online event organised by the Cambridge University & Cambridge University Press on Miniature Worlds: Organoid Research in Parasitology where Parasitologists will discuss 3D Organoid and Spheroid cellular models for studying parasites in vitro!🪱🧫

Our website has been updated with the 2025 details! There's only TWO DAYS left to submit an abstract. Scholarship applications are open until January 29th. See herminthology.com for full details!

📢 Join us for a FREE ISCT webinar: ‘Early-Stage Professionals: How to Develop Competitive Proposals for Securing Independent Research Funding’. 🌟 Learn grant-writing tips from our own Prof. Dalton! More info here: 👇isct.informz.ca/informzdataser…

New year, new discoveries! 🎉 Our postdoc Richard Lalor explores how peptides derived from Fasciola hepatica, a parasitic worm, could offer a groundbreaking biotherapeutic approach to treating sepsis. Learn more about this exciting research from our lab!👇 journals.lww.com/shockjournal/f…

Dream job alert! SPPIRIT Network British Society for Parasitology Postdoc job with the amazing Joana at Biology at York . Amazing mentor, cool project, and lovely place to live and work.

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🚨 Calling all parasitology enthusiasts! 🚨 📢 The ISP Meeting 2025 at Queen’s University Belfast! 🏛️🔬 Join top researchers, students, and professionals for two days of exciting talks, networking, and cutting-edge parasitology! 🔗 Info: irishparasitology.com #ISP2025

I'm finally on my way back home after a whirlwind Europe trip! As well as attending the conference in Wurzburg & being amazed by this year's EQUIP scholars, I was fortunate to catch up with old colleagues in Galway, walking, talking & planning the next fantastic Fasciola event!

✅ Thesis submitted! 👏🎉🥳 Big congratulations to Tadhg Kilbane Tadhg kilbane on completing his Research Master’s thesis! 🎓📜 Thanks to Research Ireland for funding.

🦠🌍 Our PhD students are continuing World Parasite Awareness Day! Aiste is ‘spreading the worm’ to the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Microbiology Society 🦠🧫🔬 #ParasiteAwareness #LiverFluke

A fantastic day out for the Molecular Parasitology Lab crew, sharing our research and networking at the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway College of Science and Engineering Research and Innovation Day 2025!

Prof John Dalton spoke on tackling global parasites affecting humans & their livestock during the Planetary Health session at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway's College of Science & Engineering Research & Innovation Day 2025, followed by an expert panel on the role of planetary health in society. 🌍

Tadhg Kilbane took the stage this week at the Euro Serpin Conference in Brescia, Italy 🇮🇹, sharing his latest findings on serpins of the human parasites Schistosoma mansoni and Fasciola hepatica🪱. Now it’s time to enjoy the beautiful sights and flavours of Italy! 🍕🍷🌞

Keeping it in the MPL - two years running! 🥳 Well-deserved congratulations to our talented PhD student Eve O’Kelly on winning the Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award for best presentation at this year’s ISP meeting, presented by ISP president Dr Christopher J Coates.👏