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Honours student Kelsey Longstaff presented her poster on corallinid isopods from Borneo #PARSA2023 #WRG #ESFP616

MSc student Tshenolo Masilo presented her poster on the parasites of the large-scale yellowfish #PARSA2023 #WRG

PhD student Precious Fikiye presented her poster on the integrated taxonomy of an ergasilid #PARSA2023 #WRG

Associate professor Courtney Cook presented a poster on blood parasites in tortoises #PARSA2023 #WRG

What an amazing conference! We all had so much fun in such a beautiful setting! Thank you to the 2023 PARSA LOC and SAVETCON for another successful PARSA conference #PARSA2023

We have a student grant program! This grant-in-aid is aimed at facilitating copepod research, including research supplies, field work, course/workshop attendance, visiting collections, etc. Check below and see if you are interested! monoculus.org/student-grants/

Have you heard about touch-down and step-down #PCR? Touch-down PCR is a method that automatically "finds" the optimal annealing temperature of your PCR to increase specificity, while also encouraging a high yield. A touch-down PCR program starts with a high annealing

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🌍✈️ Diversity MDPI 2024 Travel Award! Are you a Biodiversity researcher, a PhD student, or postdoc? Apply to receive CHF 800 grant, a certificate, and more. Application deadline: Oct 31, 2023. Get all the details at mdpi.com/journal/divers… 📷 Michael Marmach (CC)

Junker et al. report on the diversity of gut helminth communities in South African warthogs. Results support these communities are influenced by numerous factors, both internal (e.g. host sex, age, diet) & external factors (e.g. climate). Fascinating! See: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited for today's #SAIABStudentSymposium2023! MSc students Chandra le Roux Tshenolo_Masilo and PhD candidate Nichole Donough will represent NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management NWU_WRG REFRESH Project SAIAB Join here for talks on South Africa's aqautic life: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

BREAKING: IUCN Red List update reveals 25% of #freshwaterfishes are threatened with extinction! World must rise to the #FreshwaterChallenge to protect & restore freshwater ecosystems - for the benefit of freshwater fishes, nature, climate & people theguardian.com/environment/20…

Dear Enthusiasts of parasitology and related fields! We present the composition of the EMOP 2024 Organizing Committee and cordially invite you to participate in the meeting! World Federation of Parasitologists #emop2024 #parasitology #wroclaw #Poland

The call for nominees for the 2024 #GradResearchers Awards is now open! This programme will recognize 2 early-career researchers, awarding each €5k for their innovative research & discovery in biodiversity informatics. Deadline: 24 Jun 2024 Details: gbif.org/news/0YedTUAf3…

Had a great poster session with this U.S. National Science Foundation funded The Sikkel Lab NWU_WRG project on cryptofauna like _Gnathia jimmybuffetti_ Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists SETAC Africa Nico J Smit Kerry Hadfield Malherbe

Hot off the press! Our new paper on the spread of Tarebia granifera in the Limpopo catchment in north-eastern South Africa. NWU_WRG Lizaan de Necker Victor Wepener onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Did you know the average length of time to describe a new species is 13.5 years?! 🤯🧬 By supporting taxonomists around the world we are hoping to drastically reduce that length of time. Meet the 7 new #OceanCensusAwards recipients: oceancensus.org/the-ocean-cens… #TheNipponFoundation

Honoured to be a part of these teaching awards. Thank you NWU for this opportunity! NWU TL Awards 2024 youtu.be/xXMkB6kDLdc?si… via YouTube

Fantastic start to the year with our paper on our "famous" cymothoid featured as the parasite of the month 👏

Excited to share our recent paper! We developed a key to the genera of Caligidae, the largest family of parasitic copepods, which includes >500 species in 27 genera. Available here: doi.org/10.1645/24-97 I spent a lot of time imaging copepods for this project... [🧵1/5]