It’s been a really busy year seeing people in the lab moving on to their next steps and new people joining! A few highlights from the last few months…
Flora gave a great poster presentation for her Integrated Masters degree.
(Emma) Carrington joined us as a summer vacation scholarship student supported by the Wellcome Trust. Since she’s a student at St. Andrews University which is nearby, we look forward to seeing her around for the next few years as she finishes her undergraduate degree.
Our collaborators at Moredun Research Institute invited the lab to come observe an oocyst purification from cow samples. It was stinky, but good fun! Thanks to Frank and Paul!
Drs. Simona Seizova and Beatrice Colon have moved on to their next adventures. They were instrumental in getting the lab up and running! We look forward to publishing their work soon and hearing about their on-going career success.
Sarah joined us as a research technician and Beth joined as an Honour Student. Here they are sending their first plasmids off for sequencing with plasmidsaurus… and the data came back flawless!
We finally got signs posted to indicate where our labs/offices are located (small victories!)
Lee has been busy preparing compounds and fooling us into thinking that he is a wizard with this quartz mortar and pestle.
We hosted the second annual ECR research symposium for SPPIRIT at Dundee. Grant and Carrington gave poster presentations!
Alexis Gibson, a previous PhD student in the Striepen lab, came to Scotland to visit on her way to an immunology conference in Italy. It was a blast to show her the sights including a whiskey tasting, castles, and bagpipes. She also was recently awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellowship and we couldn’t be more proud and excited for her!
In the news, our previous PhD student Dr. Ross Bacchetti published his first paper from his new job working with the NHS:
Soon after this, our colleague Rachel Chalmers’ group published a notice that cases of Cryptosporidium in the UK are climbing to unexpected and significant numbers:
And our local swimming pool in Perth was shut due to Cryptosporidium:
It seems like Cryptosporidium research is still important to the health of people in the UK and those around the world!
Mattie spoke at this year’s annual American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting located in Chicago, USA. It was a really great line-up and so exciting to hear about all the advances in Cryptosporidium research from lab to field!
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