1st Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting in Philly

Grant, Sarah, Mattie, and Nicola Caldwell traveled to Philly in March for the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, hosting by Boris Striepen and Chris Hunter.

Our collaborators from the University of Arizona, Curtis Thorne and Briana Guzman joined us!

Grant gave a poster about his PhD project, Nicola spoke about the DDU’s Crypto KRS programme, Mattie talked about our recent publication from Jack Hanna’s PhD work, and Curtis spoke about our work to develop organoid models to study Cryptosporidium infection.

Grant gave a great poster presentation!
Nicola Caldwell, chemistry lead in the Drug Discovery Unit, talked about the Crypto KRS project.
Front row: Sarah and Briana; Middle row: Manju (Novartis), Mattie, and Rajiv (Novartis); featuring a smiling Wes Van Voorhis a few rows back! Photo from Boris Striepen.
Curtis and Mattie at the conference dinner at the UPenn Museum.
Briana and Sarah at the conference dinner!
Late-night icecream run after the conference dinner and before the pub 🙂

Our alumnus Simona Seizova was also present, and with all our collaborators and colleagues over the years. It was a fantastic meeting that left us all inspired to get back to the lab!

There’s a rumor that the next meeting may be held in the UK… so stay tuned…

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