Hola everyone!
Did you upload your suggestion(s) for ICOPA2022 symposia? If yes - good! If not - don't worry; you still have lots of opportunity to share your parasitology research.
Deadline for regular abstract submission is 8 March, 2022.
Go here to submit.
For more information on ICOPA2022 - go here.
Cheers!
Hello everyone,
In the LOC and SC we are working hard to develop the ICOPA2022 conference YOU would like to attend.
But we need input from you as well! Please note that the deadline for submission of Symposium proposals is 31 January, 2022.
Deadline for abstracts is 8 March, 2022. You can browse the list of Abstract topics here.
So, please go ahead an submit!
It is teamwork! 💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡 Yellow t-shirts look busy preparing symposia proposals to #ICOPAnhagen - deadline is 31 January! Did you submit yours already? #ICOPA2022 @_SBSP_ @DParasitology @WorldFedPara pic.twitter.com/op5dP5wwRa
— International Congress of Parasitology - ICOPA (@ICOPAnhagen) January 20, 2022
Hello everyone!
In case you didn't see this already, abstracts and proposals for symposia can now be submitted to the ICOPA2022 website!
Deadline for abstracts: 8 March.
Deadline for symposia: 31 January.
Please also make sure to get more updates on social media - we're on FB, Twitter, and IG.
Search terms: #ICOPA2022 and #icopanhagen
It's time! 💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛 https://t.co/qGpJuIp6gZ
— Chr. Rune Stensvold (@Eukaryotes) December 7, 2021
In the wake of the 3rd Int'l Blastocystis Conference (2-4 June, 2021), we're pleased that Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (one of the sponsors of the conference) has launched a specific research topic:
"Putting Blastocystis on the Spot: Examining the Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology of a Controversial Gut Microbe"
Topic editors include Tasos, Eleni, Kevin, Funda, and myself. I personally hope to see and review some very interesting studies, and - in line with my thoughts in the previous blog post - I particularly hope to see data on Blastocystis in en ecological context.
Please go here for more information.
I'm still on a high after the 3rd Int'l Blastocystis Conference! The Scientific Committee is in the process of putting together a TrendsTalk paper for Trends in Parasitology to provide a brief summary of the different topics presented at the conference, including some important updates.
I personally think Blastocystis research has come a long way since I entered the field back in 2004, but I would like to call for more cross-disciplinary approaches to studying the parasite.
In particular, we need to stimulate a research interest in bioinformaticians, vets, food microbiologists, and gastroenterologists.
The bioinformatics people should help us analyze NGS data (shotgun, metabarcoding) and provide some robust and guidelines for cut-offs for e.g. Blastocystis positivity and negativity in NGS data.
Vets should
be interested in studying the differences in Blastocystis colonization across
different animal populations and find out what drives colonization and the impact
is has on the host and host gut microbiota. Studying the relationships of these
microbes in animals can help us understand these relationships in humans. Vets should help us find out why Blastocystis is so common in ruminants and so rare in carnivores.
To this end, food microbiologists should take an interest to study associations and interactions between Blastocystis, the gut microbiota and the host. Including metabolomics. Diet as a driver of colonization should be investigated.
Finally, gastroenterologists should take an interest in Blastocystis to identify its positive or negative association to various GI diseases (IBS, IBD, microscopic colitis, coeliac disease, diverticulosis, colon cancer, etc, etc.)
We should take advantage of the fact that Blastocystis is one of the few intestinal parasites that can easily be cultured, which means that cells can be used for in vivo and in vitro experiments. Protocols should be developed for encystment, and cyst production on a larger scale should be enabled, since cysts can be used for oral administration.
The current shift in paradigm that reflects the recognition of Blastocystis as marker of intestinal eubiosis could be supported and expanded by increasing the involvement of these types of professions.
The 3rd International Blastocystis Conference took place Wednesday-Friday last week.
Organising committee:
Scientific committee:
Sponsors included
The conference was facilitated by Top Kinisis
The conference in numbers:
Awards:
Blastocystis Quiz Award: Mark van der Giezen (@MitoRem)
Poster Award: Adriana Marcela Higuera Gelvez (Draft genomes of Blastocystis isolates from human samples in Bogotá, Colombia)
Oral Presentation:
A special issue 'Putting Blastocystis on the Spot: Examining the Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology of a controversial gut microbe' has been launched in Frontiers. This Research Topic is linked to the conference. You can go here for more information.
The 4th International Blastocystis Conference is planned to take place in Chania, Crete, Greece in 2024.
Last, but not least a couple of screen capture impressions from the conference:
I will be back shortly with more updates from the conference.
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Hi everyone,
You can access the full programme for the 3rd International Blastocystis Conference here.
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Representatives from more than 20% of all countries in the World have contributed scientific abstracts for the 3rd International Blastocystis conference! #Blastocystis @blastocystis - you rock @CiliateGal @ADTsaousis !
— Chr. Rune Stensvold (@Eukaryotes) May 7, 2021
Hi everyone,
We're currently going through the abstracts submitted for the upcoming Blastocystis conference, which will be held exclusively online.
The scientific quality of the abstracts is very high, and participants in this year's conference are in for a veritable treat!
Expect important and potentially game-changing updates on host-pathogen interactions, cell biology and evolution, epidemiology, intestinal ecology, diagnosis and molecular characterisation.
Use this opportunity to obtain answers to all of your Blastocystis questions.
We are very much overwhelmed about the interest for this event and the support.
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'Parasitologia na perspectiva da Saúde Única'
Happy and thankful to be part of this years congress in parasitology in The XXVII Congress of the Brazilian Society of Parasitology - PARASITO-2021, which will be held online
from May 4th to 6th, 2021.
The programme is available here for download.
In my talk, I'll be giving examples of the applicability of the metabarcoding assay in place at our institute (Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen) for detecting and differentiating parasites in various matrices from humans, other animals and the environment.
