Proud of IUCN Parasite Specialist Group team BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt! 3 members of this young IUCN IUCN Species Survival Commission specialist group, incl. Programme Officer & Steering Committee Member Europe help pave the way for Red Listing of metazoan parasites of animals supported by FWO

The hippos of Botswana are under threat due to drought. vrtnws.be/p.RaEoEY6Y9 But invasive snails and the parasitic diseases they transmit might give the final blow 🥊🐌🪱🦛 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Hans Carolus (he/him) Tine Huyse

PhD student Tuan Nguyen of Enviro_economics_UH & BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt introducing the "World Archives of Species Perception" (WASP) project at our workshop "Red List Assessment and its potential for parasite conservation"! IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN FWO

Prof Wilmien Luus-Powell of SARChI Ecosystem Health University of Limpopo, member of IUCN Parasite Specialist Group, enthusiastically conveying the ecological importance of parasites in our WS "Red List Assessment & its potential for parasite conservation"! BiTElab CMK UHasselt IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Universiteit Hasselt FWO

Prof. Jos Snoeks The AfricaMuseum Biology | KU Leuven KU Leuven Laboratory of Biodiversity & Evolutionary Genomics from the IUCN IUCN Species Survival Commission Freshwater Fish SG defending the hosts on our WS "Red List Assessment & its potential for parasite conservation"! BiTElab CMK UHasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group Universiteit Hasselt FWO

Prof. Neil Cumberlidge from Northern Michigan University shares his views on red listing parasites infecting crustacean hosts on our workshop "Red List Assessment and its potential for parasite conservation"! BiTElab CMK UHasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Universiteit Hasselt FWO

2nd talk abt crustaceans on our workshop "Red List Assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Universiteit Hasselt FWO! Prof. @crandallkeith about decapod taxonomy, phylogenomics, red listing & conservation.

Also other symbionts matter: prof. Ellen Decaestecker KU Leuven Kulak Biology | KU Leuven abt microbiome in biodiversity and ecosystem services on WS "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN

Fellow Belgian parasitologists in our WS "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Drs. Tine Huyse The AfricaMuseum & Cyril Hammoud Nioz At Sea: monitoring (un)known snail-borne trematodes!

Dr. Marliese Truter SAIAB NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management NWU - North-West University on knowledge gaps & data gathering on aquatic parasites in South Africa on our WS "Red List assessment & its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN FWO

More knowledge gaps on African trematodes presented by i am Aspire🌞 from Biology | KU Leuven KU Leuven Laboratory of Biodiversity & Evolutionary Genomics on our workshop "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN FWO

1 week ago, our workshop "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" started! It was organised by BiTElab CMK UHasselt for the IUCN Parasite Specialist Group of IUCN & its IUCN Species Survival Commission, with funding from Universiteit Hasselt and FWO. Thanks contributors & participants!

TLDR: Pre-order my children's book on parasites! us.macmillan.com/books/97812508… Scroll for the unabridged version...

Let's talk parasites! And the sooner the better. What a great way to introduce the young to the fascinating world of parasites, congratulations dear Chelsea L. Wood , can’t wait to read it myself.

Proud to see our xenomonitoring tool being used by i am Aspire🌞 to reveal 15(!) trematode species in 🇿🇼. He also provides the first record of the invasive exotic 🐌Tarebia granifera in 🇿🇼 (Xeno tool 🧬) doi.org/10.1093/trstmh… (Mudavanhu et al. 2024) doi.org/10.1186/s13071…

The purple emperor 🦋 making good use of the crushed slugs on our blinds! The first time I get to witness this amazing animal. Star-struck. We have many more crushed 🐌 so 🤞 for more observations!

Our new paper is out in STOTEN in which we demonstrate the role of human land use on the ecosystem state of aquatic environment with implications on the presence and abundance of freshwater snails. Many thanks to Tine Huyse, rubenschols and VLIR. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jtR4B8cd0VRT

Congratulations Dr. i am Aspire🌞 for a job well done!

Map showing the distribution of African stone ruins and cities africanhistoryextra.com/p/demystifying…

Parasites, X-rays, and hippos—discover how cutting-edge 3D imaging and DNA barcoding are revolutionizing trematode taxonomy without destroying precious museum specimens. Download the in press version for free before July 22, 2025: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCE94j%7El7…