As we welcome autumn, we are sharing this month's ISP calendar image by Dr Richard Lalor and Deirdre Winrow (@uniofgalway.bsky.social), which shows fluorescent immunolocalisation of the Sm16 antigen within eggs and surrounding granulomatous tissue of a liver infected with Schistosoma mansoni. 🪱

Attention helminth researchers! The @helminthhubuk.bsky.social, a UK research network advancing sustainable helminth control, will hold its first symposium on 22–23 Sept 2026 in Liverpool, UK. Non-UK researchers can join via a UK-based partner group. More info: www.helminthhub.co.uk/post/first-h...

🗓️ Starting August with this month's ISP calendar image - Oxyuris equi, the equine pinworm, identified in a rhinoceros during a routine zoo parasite check, by Amanda Lawlor, University College Dublin. 🦏 🪱

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This month, our ISP Calendar features an image by Ellie-Ann Conneely @ellieconneely.bsky.social (@uniofgalway.bsky.social), showcasing a common prawn Palaemon serratus infected with a nematode parasite, likely Nectonema sp. 🦐🪱

📢 Job Alert! 🚨 We're sharing this great opportunity from Dr Christina Tadiri’s Disease Ecology Lab at the University of Galway. Multiple positions (PhD, Postdoc, Research Assistant) available. Further details below:

What an incredible ISP Meeting 2026 at @nmireland.bsky.social! 🎉 Sincere thanks to @geraghtyamy.bsky.social, @paoloviscardi.bsky.social & Jamie Maxwell for the wonderful hospitality. Thanks also to ISP President @cjcoates.bsky.social & Committee, & to every attendee & presenter. See you next year!

And the winner is… 🏆🥇 Congratulations to this year's ISP Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award winner, Craig McCoubrey from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social! 🎉👏 A huge thank you to the journal Parasitology & @universitypress.cambridge.org for sponsoring the award. A very well-deserved win!👏

Our final keynote talk at ISP 2026 was delivered by Dr Christina Tadiri on 'Incorporating Sex and Gender into Parasitology Research, a timely reminder that properly accounting for sex and gender can deepen our understanding of host-parasite interactions and improve health outcomes.

Day 2 of our Annual ISP Meeting opened with a brilliant talk on African Trypanosomes by Prof. Derek Nolan from Trinity College Dublin, with a rare bonus - a look at the microscope used by Sir David Bruce in his landmark sleeping sickness research in Uganda in 1903. 🔬

Our second session of the Annual ISP Meeting was opened by Dr Annetta Zintl, Associate Professor at UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, with a brilliant talk on 'Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens in Ireland and the Potential Effects of Climate Change'. A huge thank you to Dr Zintl for joining us! 👏

A huge thank you to Dr Amy Geraghty @geraghtyamy.bsky.social, Curator of Zoology at the National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social y.social for a fascinating talk at our ISP Meeting on the Natural History Division's parasite collections, spanning arthropods, nematodes and platyhelminthes!

Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland, opened the first session of the day, sharing his expertise on the vital role museum collections play as a rich repository for biodiversity research. Thank you for such a brilliant start! @nmireland.bsky.social

Kicking off this year’s ISP Annual Meeting at the historic Collins Barracks, National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social in Dublin, with a warm welcome from our ISP President, Dr. Christopher Coates @cjcoates.bsky.social! Looking forward to a great lineup of talks ahead!

Exciting news! 🎉 The Irish Society for Parasitology has partnered with the National Museum of Ireland on Parasite Tales — a new display in the Dead Zoo Lab uncovering the hidden world of parasites! Now open to the public! Read more here 👉: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

What if the most influential organisms on Earth are the ones we rarely see? Parasite Tales at the Dead Zoo Lab uncovers the hidden world of parasitic worms-revealing their role in biodiversity, evolution & health. Discover the science of the unseen: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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