Just a heads-up regarding the 'Eukaryome' conference in Paris later this year... looks interesting! You can find the website here...

So, a lot of people would like to know about the take-home messages from the recent 2nd International Blastocystis Conference in Bogotá. T...

As an appropriate follow-up on yesterday's post, I feel like guiding your attention to the paper by Laforest-Lapointe and Arrieta from ...

For those interested in exploring the presence/absence of intestinal parasites in a gut microbiome context, Dr Mark van der Giezen and I di...

I'm happy to be able to point your attention towards the website for the 2nd International Blastocystis Conference in Bogotá in October...

Very much belated, I'm back to give you the MAY entry of the 2016 "This Month in Blastocystis Research" blog series. I...

I thought I’d give examples of some of the Blastocystis -related activities in which I was involved in April. I was lucky to be invite...

I'm going to dedicate this post entirely to a recent case presented by my wonderful colleague Bobbi Pritt (Mayo Clinic) in collaboratio...

The potential pathogenicity of Blastocystis is something that has kept me preoccupied for more than a decade. Nonetheless, what I find per...

I'm actually going to skip the small review I do each month for a variety of reasons. Instead, I'm just going to upload a presentat...

I would like to highlight a comment that we published in PLoS Pathogens, - a paper that is free for download here . It gained some atte...

I'm going to dedicate this blog post entirely to the upcoming 1st International Blastocystis Symposium. I'm not sure how much adv...

Due to all sorts of activities I have not been able to update myself with 'novelties' in the scientific Blastocystis literature l...

As mentioned earlier, Dr Pauline Scanlan and I put together an opinion for Trends in Parasitology . This paper may possibly be one in a st...

We are continually looking into the opportunity for funding for research in Blastocystis and we are on the lookout for young researchers w...

I get an increasing amount of requests for Blastocystis testing (and testing for other parasites as well, for instance Dientamoeba fragi...

My colleagues from Statens Serum Institut and I are heading to Lisbon, Portugal, tomorrow morning to attend the Cell Symposium on Microbio...

This morning, I was doing a lazy ramble through my favourite blogs and found a post by Carl Zimmer on 'Bugs as Drugs' - primaril...

Over the past few years nucleic acid based methods have revolutionised parasite diagnostics in modern clinical microbiology (CM) labs. ...

I'm very thankful for all the positive feedback I get from readers across the globe, mostly by email. Due to time limits I can only res...