EU-COST-NUS Workshop: Blastocystis Culture & Applications

Hi all,

Exciting times ahead!

The first training school of our Action will take place between the 30th of May until 1st of June 2023 at the National University of Singapore. Thanks to Dr. Kevin Tan for organising this.

You can find more information here and register to attend the meeting my completing the form here.

Our Action will support 14-15 trainees to attend the Training School. To apply for a financial support to attend this training school you will need to complete the form below no latter than the 10th of March 2023.

Due to the tight timeline and quick turnover, we won’t consider any applications submitted after this deadline. 

 

For criteria selection, priority will be given to:

• Applicants that have relevant research to Blastocystis or they are aiming to apply this knowledge to future Blastocystis research 
• One applicant per COST member country
• Early career researchers
• Keeping a gender balance 
• We cannot provide financial support for participants that are affiliated with non-COST member countries. See eligibility here: https://www.cost.eu/about/members/ 

 

We would like to inform the succesful applicants before the 15th of March. If you have any questions regarding the application procedure, please contact Dr. Eleni Gentekaki: E.Gentekaki@kent.ac.uk  

 

Please feel free to forward this information across your networks.

 

Kind regards,

Anastasios Tsaousis

SSU rDNA reference sequence database for Blastocystis and Entamoeba

Hello everyone,

Service update:

I've had a couple of people asking me where to fetch a curated collection of reference SSU rDNA sequences of Blastocystis (and Entamoeba). Please go here!

Have fun!

Maybe this is also an opportunity for me to encourage participation in the Blastocystis COST network; for more information on this, please go here. Soon, there will be a designated website for the activities.

R

 

PhD position on Blastocystis and more in Mark van der Giezen's lab, Norway

 I HAVE to post this!

Fully #funded #PhD #studentship in #intestinal #microbiology as part of a large interdisciplinary @forskningsradet funded study into the role of #microbial #eukaryotes and #inflammatory #bowel #disease (#IBD) in #Norway.https://t.co/T44t5ATmqB#AcademicTwitter @UniStavanger

— Mark van der Giezen (@MitoRem) September 20, 2022

This PhD position is one of more that are linked to the project "The Role of Blastocystis in inflammatory bowel disease".

If you or somebody you know share our interests in the interplay between common eukaryotic endosymbionts, gut bacteria and host health/disease and have an appropriate background (see call above), then please don't hesitate to apply - you'd be in for SO much fun! And you'd also get the opportunity to partake in the COST Blastocystis in One Health network that will going on for the next four years. You will very quickly become part of 'the Blastocystis community' and what not, and you'll join us in our endeavours to learn how we can put our knowledge into use. 

Go and apply! :-)

Intestinal parasites - where are we going? Ask @ ICOPA2022!

Billions of people host single-celled intestinal parasites, but what do we really know about these organisms and the way they impact our lives? Register virtually/on-site for #ICOPA2022 to learn more on this and go here for more inspiration.

Note that registration is still possible, and that one can register for on-site or virtual attendance. Please spread the word!

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 https://icopa2022.org/

 

Still possible to register for ICOPA2022 at the regular rate

Hi all,

We are so excited and looking forward to receiving a great number of scientists here in Copenhagen for the ICOPA 2022 event in exactly month from now!

Please note that you can still register at the regulate rate - please go here for more information. After July 27, the on-site registration fee will apply. Please note that you can register for on-site participation and also for virtual attendance only, if you think you cannot make it to Copenhagen. The fee for virtual participation is €350 (€225 for students).

Of course, there will be talks and posters involving Blastocystis - for starters, I can mention the following sessions:

PA04-02 - Giardia, Entamoeba, Blastocystis: 2.3 Intestinal parasitic diseases

 

PA09-04 - Symposium - Blastocystis: Updates on detection, molecular epidemiology, and molecular and cell biologyTopic: 3.5 Parasitic zoonoses and vector-borne diseases

 

PA10-05 - Other studies of parasites of domestic and wild animals: 3.6 Other studies related to parasites of domestic and wild animals

 

PA08-07 - One Health with a social sciences twist

 

 - and no less than 10 sessions are scheduled that will contain talks involving the microbiome!

 

And then of course, there will be a multitude of talks and posters on other intestinal parasites.

 

Why not go and familiarise yourself with the interactive programme here.

 

See you soon!