Pytsje Hoekstra

Married to @roelandhoekstra | Mom of 3 | Christian | Postdoc Clinical Parasitology @LUMCPara @free_bily | Loves 📸🌅🌺🌍🧵🪡

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis on sensitive circulating antigen diagnostics for schistosomiasis @LUMCPara. Many thanks to my supervisors, family, friends and colleagues for making it a very special day!

Full thesis available here👇🏻
https://t.co/P0vgef6Nmk

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@abena_serwaa Enjoy Abena! Hope all went well in Jakarta, now time to relax. Even when it rains, Bali is still great 😉

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

A special parasite art project - goodbye dear Eric, you will be missed! To all parasite lovers: which parasite do you recognize? 🔬 #crossstitch #SciArt

[Abena S. Amoah, PhD 👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍🔬 @AbenaPhD]

#ThrowbackThursday to last week when we were making a movie about the @HypoVax Global Knowledge Hub. The hub aims to bring researchers together to focus on #vaccine hypo-responsiveness. Learn more via our website which is launching soon. Watch this space!

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@Shannan_tropmed @SciAnouk @LUMCPara Thank you! 😃

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis on sensitive circulating antigen diagnostics for schistosomiasis @LUMCPara. Many thanks to my supervisors, family, friends and colleagues for making it a very special day!

Full thesis available here👇🏻
https://t.co/P0vgef6Nmk

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@HeleenGerritsma @LUMCPara Dankje! 😃

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@GoyletteChami @LUMCPara Thank you, Goylette!!

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@GovertvanDam @ParaDiag_and_GH And not to forget former @LUMCPara colleague Dieuwke Kornelis!

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@GovertvanDam @ParaDiag_and_GH And Ron Hokke

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@StothardRuss Thank you Russ!!

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@AbenaPhD Thank you Abena! 🫶🏼

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

@salvo_scarso @HumphreyMazigo @cuhas_bugando Nice to see you are involved in field work. So cool that you went to Mwanza!

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

Final paper for my PhD thesis now published in @PLOSNTDs !

Results from our #RePST trial showed that PZQ efficacy measurements vary based on the diagnostic method used: egg-based diagnostics show different patterns compared to worm-based diagnostics.

👉🏻 https://t.co/cqZSr5S3GI

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

Really enjoyed making this #schistosomiasis #glycan #plant portrait for my dear colleague @AKildemoes it’s not a goodbye, but see you later 👋🏻

[Pytsje Hoekstra @PytsjeHoekstra]

Diagnosing #schistosomiasis without a microscope:

POC-CCA and PCR on stool are suitable screening tools, while ultra-sensitive and highly specific UCP-LF #CAA showed a large number of additional infections - mainly of low worm burden 🪱

👉🏻 https://t.co/LGpS7CbI2E

[Anna Kildemoes @AKildemoes]

Curious about effects of repeated PZQ treatment in #schisto? Check out @PytsjeHoekstra & co’s RePST trial talk #ICOPA2022

[Prof. Poppy Lamberton @PoppyLamberton]

@PytsjeHoekstra taking about her excellent research on the efficacy of repeated PZQ on #schisto measured using egg counts, DNA, antigen tests @ICOPAnhagen @LUMC_Leiden