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Aiste Vitkauskaite · 20 November 2024

Aiste Vitkauskaite Awarded Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2024

My introduction to the fascinating world of parasites and Fasciola was accidental, or rather, a fluke! I met Professor John Dalton, the lead of the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory while working on a drug metabolism and hepatotoxicity project using HepG2 cell-derived spheroids at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Galway. After several hours of parasite chat, I was hooked and embarked on a PhD migratory pathway!

Angela Valcarcel · 28 August 2023

Angela Valcarcel Awarded Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2023

The Irish Society for Parasitology organises a vibrant annual meeting for parasitologists to come together and share their research and build collaborations.…

Mona Suleiman · 11 November 2022

Mona Suleiman Awarded Inaugural Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2022

This year, Mona Suleiman, who is doing her PhD at the University of Bath, was the winner of the award. The competition this year was high, but Mona’s presentation stood out for the fundamental impacts of her research that were explained in a very comprehensible way.

Signe Martin · 24 March 2021

Something to be crabby about?

Parasites can have serious impacts on their crustacean hosts and associated fisheries, from stunting growth to causing mass mortalities. When 56% of velvet crab from a bay in Ireland were found to be positive for the microparasite Paramarteilia sp.,…

P Tierney · 15 December 2020

Paula Tierney Awarded Inaugural Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award

Paula Tierney, a final year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland was recently awarded the 2020 Irish Society for Parasitology Prof.…

How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022

Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…

Hamid Abbasi and more · 10 July 2025

Omega-3 Supplements and Autism: A Closer Look at the Evidence

The Paper of the Month for March is ‘Impact of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on clinical manifestations in autism spectrum disorders: an umbrella review of meta-analyses“.…

More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

APSR Authors · 15 December 2020

Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality

This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022

Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

Karen Stollznow · 15 November 2024

Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults

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