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We are really excited to share that our first research paper in the lab has now been published. You can read it HERE. The first author, Jack, tweeted a nice summary of the article, which you can view HERE. We are really proud that almost all members of the lab were able to contribute toContinue reading “First Lab Publication”

Mattie was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference Tropical Infectious Diseases: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Advance Tropical Infectious Diseases Health Technologies. I talked about our work done in collaboration with Dr. Susan Wyllie and her lab on “Creating a Comprehensive Mode-Of-Action Toolkit to Enable Cryptosporidium Drug Discovery”. I presented work from Jack Hanna’s time as aContinue reading “Mattie visits Texas”

In late 2022, Juan Quintana approached a few PIs about how we could better collaborate across institutes. At the same time, Lilach Sheiner saw some funding opportunities for building collaborative academic research networks… and so we started to discuss how we could better support collaborations between the parasitology groups in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee. ThusContinue reading “Co-Founding SPPIRIT a network for Scottish Parasitology Researchers”

Grant has almost finished our first in-house library screen against our transgenic Cryptosporidium (I think just 8 compound plates left!). Over his first semester in the lab he learned how to use the DDU database (dotmatics), high-throughput instrumentation, helped with a new TPP experiment, and performed several follow-up drug assays for our drug discovery collaborators.Continue reading “2023 Spring Activities”

On January 31st, Jack Hanna had his PhD viva. Thanks to Prof Chris Huston for serving as external examiner, Prof Marcus Lee (the newest member of our division) for serving as internal examiner, and Prof David Horn for acting as convenor. The day before Prof. Chris Huston gave a great seminar about his work toContinue reading “Congrats to Dr. Jack Hanna- 3rd lab PhD!”