Sunday May 24th – Tuesday May 26th, 2026 we hosted the 2nd Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mattie co-organised with Dr. Adam Sateriale, from the Francis Crick Institute. The weather in Edinburgh was incredible (maybe too good!).
It was a great chance to get the field together and discuss research progress since the 1st Biennial Cryptosporidium meeting (organised by Profs Boris Striepen and Chris Hunter at UPenn in Philadelphia March, 2024).
All the members of the Pawlowic lab came, and we had a great time catching up with old friends, meeting new people, and hearing some amazing science.
We had 85 attendees including scientists from the UK, USA, Africa, China, and Australia, and India. Thanks to funding from the Gates Foundation for supporting the previous meeting and this meeting. We had a keynote on Sunday to kick things off from Prof Jessica Kissinger from University of Georgia titled “Hybrid capture approaches enable the study of population genomics and gene expression in Cryptosporidium“.
On Monday, Sarah from our lab gave a talk about her PhD project:
On Monday afternoon before the poster session we had a keynote from Prof. Lihua Xiao from South China Agricultural University, titled “Tractable animal models of Cryptosporidium hominis infection”.
Monday night we enjoyed a conference ceilidh at Summerhall Arts Centre and family of our conference-goers also came along and danced with us!
Tuesday we enjoyed a variety of talks and ended on a session of drug discovery, featuring an update from Novartis’ progress to develop a human challenge model of cryptosporidiosis. Before the poster session, we had a presentation from Kayode K. Ojo about the Neglected Parasite Initiative and our final keynote from Prof. Wes van Voorhis titled “Bumpked Kinase Inhibitors for Cryptosporidiosis”.
Thanks to everyone for coming and making the meeting so exciting! We look forward to seeing you at the 3rd Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, in 2028 in the USA.
Mattie Christine Pawlowic Lab 