Proud of IUCN Parasite Specialist Group team BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt! 3 members of this young @IUCN IUCN Species Survival Commission specialist group, incl. Programme Officer & Steering Committee Member Europe help pave the way for Red Listing of metazoan parasites of animals supported by FWO

In Darwin's dreampond human impact altered parasite communities of cichlids, our postdoc Tiziana Gobbin BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt found studying historical fish specimens Esther Dondorp thanks to Swiss National Science Foundation Maarten Van Steenberge Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium Nathan Vranken
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🌟 Fact check by Knack! 🌟

🔍 Did you know that up to 90% of microplastics in the environment can be attributed to tire wear? 🚗💨 It's a startling fact that environmental scientist Karen Smeets has been shedding light on through her research!

Honoured & delighted to welcome Dr. marta from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and @csic (Madrid, Spain) at BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt, for her seminar 'Mechanisms of speciation in crater lake cichlids. Host-parasite interactions fuel animal diversification' !

Dit weekend openden we Flanders Technology & Innovation Stad Hasselt, met o.m. de opening van het trambustraject door Minister Lydia Peeters. Ze bezocht ook de standen Universiteit Hasselt van IMOB en de Ecotron CMK UHasselt
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#FTIHasselt is in full swing! Nog tem. 21 maart kan je stad van de toekomst komen ontdekken, en ook wij werken hier aan mee. VRT NWS kwam al een kijkje nemen in de simulatie van onze #Ecotron , die speciaal voor FTI gebouwd werd 👇 CMK UHasselt
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Not everyday, flatworms figure in a federal minister's speech! Thanks for the support Zakia Khattabi! Event on border control for IAS organised by Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 IUCN European Commission. Proud to showcase research of IAS Secretariat - Belgium Nikol KMENTOVA BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt

BiTelab contribution on morpho and genetic variation of Protopolystoma xenopodis a monogenean parasite of a wolrdwide invader, the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), featured in a diamond open access journal of Royal Belgian Zoological Society belgianjournalofzoology.eu/index.php/BJZ/…

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Na wekenlang de resultaten van jullie tuinen bestuderen, hebben we wel wat te vertellen.🦠
En dat doen we graag live op de Universiteit Hasselt, met jou erbij.😊
Zuhal Demir is er alvast bij. Jij ook?

A love story that you probably never heard before.

At CMK we also study parasites of fish: In the gills of cyprinid fishes, a young boy & girl of Diplozoon paradoxum (flatworm parasites) meet for the 1st time. They fuse together and form an organism that looks like a butterfly🦋

Nice media coverage of our PhD project shared by Enviro_economics_UH and BiTElab within CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt ! Thanks, Maxie Eckert.

Verdienen alleen schattige apen bescherming of hebben we ook compassie met een akelige vleermuis? standaard.be/cnt/dmf2024011…

UHasselt organizes a beauty contest for animals: 'How cute is an earthworm?'

Every vote counts!
➡ Survey: wasp-project.net/survey

Support this interdisciplinary project of Maarten Vanhove and Robert Malina, where biology and economics meet! BiTElab Enviro_economics_UH