PREPARE4VBD

Lively discussion at Stakeholder Day on how to transfer knowledge into practice with the panel Tine Huyse (KU Leuven), Birgitte Vennervald (UCPH), Stacey Miller (representing farming community of South Africa) and Kolisa Nokoyo (Veterinary Services South).

Our final annual meeting is on this week in lovely Entebbe, Uganda, hosted by Dr. Mubangizi Alfred, Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health Uganda and Dr Lawrence Mugisha, Makerere University together with coordinator @ASStensgaard -Sofie Stensgaard, University of Copenhagen

It has been quite the year for PREPARE4VBD! See our #wrapped of 2024 to see all we have achieved so far. Follow us in 2025 for our final and best year yet!

Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists? nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

We have uploaded our WEBINAR on Copromicroscopic Diagnosis of Fasciola spp. & Paramphistomidae in Cattle using the Kubic FLOTAC Microscope. See our YouTube page for part I (intro lectures) and part II (live demo) 🔬🪱 youtube.com/watch?v=wVjKeqGZ…

New Cooperative Agreement: Ending Neglected Diseases through Operational... youtu.be/OSmL3zGG7V4?si=LKs-… via @YouTube

NEW BLOG POST: Mosquito monitoring in Copenhagen🦟 #ClimateChange is driving the expansion of mosquito ranges, introducing risks like malaria & dengue to new areas. Denmark’s marshlands & forests offer ideal conditions for many mosquitoes species to thrive prepare4vbd.eu/blog/

Please tune in to our Webinar on copromicroscopic diagnosis of Fasciola spp applied to Kubic FLOTAC Microscope organized by our partner @UninaIT @lrinaldi11 Details: prepare4vbd.eu/events/

Join us on October 29th for a #webinar on the copromicroscopic diagnosis of helminth eggs in cattle using the Kubic FLOTAC Microscope (KFM). #Read a bit more about the technique and the hosting group UNINA here: prepare4vbd.eu/blog/ #veterinary #agriculture #parasites 🐮🪱🔬

A big congrats to all the price-winning early career scientists @EMOP2024 - so well-deserved! We look forward to seeing you all in Rome in 2028🪱

We had a WONDERFUL time @EMOP2024 in beautiful(!) Wrocław! Thnx & bravo to the organisers!

We are happy to be here at the @EMOP2024! Come visit us at our afternoon symposium to hear a little bit about some of our recent activities on #vectors under #climatechange incl #snails #ticks #eDNA #citizenscience for #mosquito #surveillance and much more🪱🐌🦟!

📢 We are very happy to share our 4th bi-annual newsletter with updates on research, events, and the fellows working in Prepare4VBD! Follow the link to read more 🥼🦟🐌prepare4vbd.eu/wp-content/up…

Congrats to @PREPARE4VBD fellow @tiemvanderdeure for winning the prize for best Young Investigator talk @DParasitology Annual Spring Symposium for his presentation on modelling impacts of #climatechange on #vector #mosquitoes

Another fun #wormsdayout! Coordinator @ASStensgaard & the #snails visited DenDyriskeTime to discuss #parasites & #vectorbornediseases #climatechange & much more 🪱🦠🐌🦟. Thnx @alexanderDD & team for the invite! Check-it out👇 linktr.ee/DenDyriskeTime youtube.com/watch?v=rmV5Xj6C…

Final day @PREPARE4VBD 3rd annual meeting and summerschool! What a great week - new exiting results, networking, fellows posters, ideas and collaborations on #vector borne diseases budding. Greatly organized by our partner Jandouwe Villinger and his @icipe team. Thank you all!

Wrapping up todays' @PREPARE4VBD fellow poster session - announcing the winner for the best Early Career Scientist poster award: @ItsGetange from @icipe - huge congrats!

@PREPARE4VBD Consortium visiting local Masai #pastoralists learning about challenges with #tick borne diseases and #parasites. Important messages conveyed by the county veterinary officer as well

@PREPARE4VBD summer-school session on #snailborne diseases, #snails ID tools, warming experiments and hemolymph extractions - the legendary @madsen_henry in action!

Kick-off 2nd day of the @PREPARE4VBD summer-school on molecular tools for #VBDs: @MitaSengupta @UCPH_health demonstrating uses of #environmentalDNA #eDNA tools and her protocol developed for PREPARE4VBD and #snailbornediseases #snails #parasites