Hi everyone, We're currently going through the abstracts submitted for the upcoming Blastocystis conference , which will be held exclus...

I look very much forward to the annual European Congress in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which this year will take place ...

For those interested in and working with 1) new technological and bioinformatic approaches to detecting and differentiating intestinal p...

If you're interested in reading my most recent paper Pinning down the role of common luminal intestinal parasitic protists in human...

I started developing this blog more than three years ago. After a bit more than a year, I collected a bunch of the posts, edited them and ...

Happy New Year! So, what's in store for us in 2014? Difficult to say, but as least I can try and say a little about what is going o...

We are continually looking into the opportunity for funding for research in Blastocystis and we are on the lookout for young researchers w...

For a parasitologist with a major interest in novel technology like me the Cell Symposium on Microbiome and Host Health (#CMHH) was a ...

We were lucky enough to have a paper accepted for publication in the ISME Journal (Nature Publishing Group) in which we call for data on th...

After spending more than 8 years in clinical microbiology with special reference to parasitology, I’ve come to realise that it truly is a ...

For those who like these pop-sci articles on the still somewhat conjecture-like but very inspiring theories about the role of our intestina...

I promised to include some more stuff from some of the many recent publications in Science and Science Translational Medicine on the inte...

For those of you who read my most recent blog post and who went on to read Carl Zimmer's article in The New York Times about gut fl...

Speaking of metagenomics: The July 2012 issue of one of the most prestigious journals in the field of clinical microbiology, Clinical Mic...