BUG Consortium

Building Upon the Genome: a BBSRC-funded team of UK scientists, vets and farmers studying anthelmintic resistance in parasitic nematodes

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

All welcome, but ECRs and students are particularly encouraged to join @IbahcmT @SPPIRITnetwork @UofGlasgow @BBSRC @sangerinstitute

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Registration now open: 'challenges, opportunities and new technologies for functional validation of parasitic nematode genes' A BBSRC-funded meeting at the University of Glasgow 1st-2nd March 2023. Free to attend but limited to 40 places. More info here:
https://t.co/lSJwfX3YQ1

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Speakers will include Collette Britton, Cedric Neveu, Vicky Hunt, Stephen Doyle, Sarah Buddenborg, Tess Attenborough, Paul Airs, Jennifer McIntyre, Claude Charvet and Murray Selkirk.

[Herminthology @herminthology]

Today's profile comes from @ro_panarese, a postdoctoral research associate at @UofGlasgow. She uses Next Generation Sequencing in combination with targeted enrichment to characterise human and animal isolates of Giardia duodenalis.

#WomenInParasitology
#WomenInSTEM
#Parasitology

[SPPIRIT Network @SPPIRITnetwork]

(1/2) New SPPIRIT Workshop: We will be hosting an online session to support ECRs who wish to apply to
@SULSAtweets ECR Development Fund.

When: 9 Dec 2022, 12:00-14:00
Where: Online (more to follow)

Sign up: https://t.co/MBncLFR2G2
About the fund: https://t.co/gPmUjtTnNX

[Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute]

New research a welcome boost for tackling drug resistance in parasitic worms that infect livestock. Helminth infection is responsible for over €600 million in production losses in Europe each year

@FarmersWeekly

https://t.co/lXadCuCA1S

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Go Sam! Here Sam is showing the latest work from his PhD - a metabolomic analysis of ivermectin treatment in a resistant isolate of Haemonchus contortus

[MVLS Shared Research Facilities @MVLS_SRF]

Here is Sam from Roz Laing's group with their #SMN2022 poster @UofG_SBOHVM @BUGConsortium

[John Gilleard @JohnGilleard]

Really pleased with our paper in @IJPara from @JannekeWit and great group of collaborators on detecting genomic signatures of benzimidazole drug selection by genome-wide scanning of natural field populations of Haemonchus contortus https://t.co/NtAASDkb7Y

[Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute]

A new study has mapped the genes linked to drug resistance in the parasitic worm 𝘏𝘢𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴 for the first time 🪱💉

Find out more ⤵️

https://t.co/VHhMx2KXsu

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Late to the party, but big thanks to everyone involved in this work - a real team effort, but particularly stellar work (as ever) by @stephenrdoyle - really delighted to have been part of this.

[Stephen Doyle @stephenrdoyle]

I am incredibly proud of Roz Laing (@BUGConsortium) and my latest publication in @CellReports. A big collaborative effort to map the genes responsible for resistance to three of the most important drugs used to treat parasitic worms in humans and animals. https://t.co/HDMdvltuI4

[SPPIRIT Network @SPPIRITnetwork]

Announcement: Engaging workshop for parasitology researchers actively seeking fellowships.

Sign up here (before 11/10/2022): https://t.co/0xBFLNXbto

[SPPIRIT Network @SPPIRITnetwork]

3 days to go! Looking forward to SPPIRIT's #ECR Symposium, taking place at @MoredunComms on 26 Sept. Excellent line up of speakers and posters by #parasitologists from across Scotland. Follow us for updates on the day #sppiritmeet

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Super talk today by visiting PhD student Emily Francis from @JanSlapeta lab at University of Sydney. Neat use of nemabiome sequencing for AR surveillance in domestic and wild ruminants - paper coming soon!

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Antonopoulos for passing his PhD viva on Friday! Thanks to external examiner Prof Jane Hodgkinson @jane_jhodgkin, internal examiner Prof Willie Weir @VDS_GlasgowVet and convenor Dr Rob Coultous @RobCoultous

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Excellent pre-viva talk by @AlistairAntono1 on his development of molecular assays for levamisole resistance in parasitic worms - best of luck for next Friday!

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

And congratulations to Jenni for winning best talk at the UoG Computational Biology Conference! 🤩

[Glasgow Computational Biology Community @glasgowcompbio]

And drum roll for early career researchers' poster and talk winners: @Daniel_Siciarz and @sheepwormPhD

#gcbc22

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Out now! Jenni McIntyre's latest paper describing moxidectin use on Scottish sheep farms and highlighting need for better product labelling. This was a project that Jenni designed and won her own funding for (Steve Bishop Award). Great effort Jenni and thanks to everyone involved

[SPPIRIT Network @SPPIRITnetwork]

Don’t miss out on our next free event… ECR research symposium at Moredun in Edinburgh. Registration due Monday August 15th!

[BUG Consortium @BUGConsortium]

Please RT: Post-doc in immunoparasitology @UofGVet! Full-time, available immediately, funding to 5.11.23. Informal enquiries to Prof Collette Britton ([email protected])
https://t.co/Fu85ErJC73