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We have added a few lab members this autumn: Senyo Botchie joins us from Dr. Irene Ayi’s group at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana. Senyo is a WCAIR trainee visiting to learn the basics of Cryptosporidium detection, in vitro culture, microscopy, and drug discovery.   Stephen Andrews is an undergraduateContinue reading “Welcome to Senyo, Stephen, and Nina”

Thanks to the School of Life Sciences, BCDD, and SLS lab managers for supporting expanded lab space for the lab. We now have a dedicated category 2 fecal lab and tissue culture lab. We can finally all fit in the lab at the same time!

We had a lab day out to Stonehaven, Scotland: home to Dunnotar Castle, a nice pebble beach , and a great ice cream and chippy! The east coast of Scotland can be very sunny… we all got burned! Thanks to Emma for the photos. When you play the game of thrones, you win… or youContinue reading “Lab Day Out”

March 6th-7th we held a joint meeting of the 4th Infectious Diseases Research Meeting Initiative Scotland in combination with the WCAIR Spring Symposium. David Horn and Mattie co-organised with immense support from Catharine Goddard, WCAIR manager, and the BCDD Admin team (thanks Karen, Diane, Kirstie, Pamela, and Laura!). Special thanks to the Wellcome Trust andContinue reading “IDRIS Meeting in Dundee”

Really thrilled to announce that our work to explore Cryptosporidium transmission has been funded by The Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust through a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. To read more about our research, click the links below: University Press Synopsis of our work on Wellcome’s website Scottish Press: Dec 22nd article in The HeraldContinue reading “Crypto work is funded!”