Warm aanbevolen, een heel belangrijk onderwerp dat nu bevattelijk wordt voorgesteld in deze tijdelijke tentoonstelling in het The AfricaMuseum

Wrapping up #ECSA2024 on a blast! 🎉 Mercy Gloria ASHEPET and I, on behalf of ATRAP, extend our heartfelt thanks for the engaging discussions and insightful questions during our talks. Stay tuned for more news on revolutionary citizen science in the GS! 🐌 🫂 The AfricaMuseum KU Leuven

Did you know that Trichobilharzia regenti can cause paralysis in murine models? We provide the first record of this neurotropic parasite in the Benelux 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇱🇺 and the clearest link to human infections so far!
OA: rdcu.be/dBaXg
Tine Huyse The AfricaMuseum KU Leuven

A shoutout to all the fantastic women in our team! Without them no public outreach about our #citizenscience and ATRAP project at Scivil

So grateful 🙏

#InternationalWomensDay2024
imec in Vlaanderen
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New paper by Maxson Anyolitho who just successfully defended his PhD! A must-read if you are into community empowerment & neglected tropical diseases
Many thanks also to Viola Nilah Nyakato Karolien Poels The AfricaMuseum Antwerp_university

Great thread by i am Aspire🌞 🙏🏼

📢 We are hiring: long-term postdoc position in Belgium on historical epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, including #schistosomiasis and #malaria . Please spread the word!

uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc…

Deadline for application: 30/04/2024
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The The AfricaMuseum present at the first Belgian Science for Climate Action conference organized by the Belgian Climate Centre
A much-needed initiative to create encounters between scientists, NGOs, policymakers & journalists for exchange & much-needed action
UGent-Woodlab & Laboratory of Biodiversity & Evolutionary Genomics

We ask your attention to an overlooked but important parasite of the hippo!
Despite its huge size (9cm), nothing much was known until the use of molecular screening of🐌hosts, and careful sampling by rubenschols Hans Carolus (he/him) and i am Aspire🌞

Congratulations to doctor Tim Maes for successfully defending his PhD on snail distribution in a warming climate, impacting #schistosomiasis spread.

A big thank you to AnnaSofie Stensgaard Boissier Jérôme and lies jacobs for acting as an excellent jury and their enlightening talks

Are you interested in #ScienceCommunication ? Are you 18-30yrs? Want to support #BeatNTDs and #GlobalHealth ? Check out this #Internship opportunity, launched by our friends ISNTD

A wonderful tribute to our much missed colleague Kamran Rafiq.

#scicomm #youthleadership

Come and work Natural History Museum with me on disease ecology and global change topics. **FIVE** positions available: 2 post-doctoral (2.5yrs) 3 pre-doctoral level (2 yrs). Pls retweet and spread widely, closing 18th Dec Natural History Museum Science UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research Tim Lucas nhm.ac.uk/about-us/caree…

Dr. Joule Madinga Ntwan, MD PhD presenting results of ATRAP at @ECTMIH2023: some misconceptions about #FGS transmission higher among healthcare professionals than in community women in Kimpese, DRC. So more awareness on this neglected gynaecological disease is needed!

Even fish parasites featured at ⁦ECTMIH2023⁩ ! Only ⁦Maarten Vanhove⁩ can do this

Kudos to the ⁦ECTMIH2023⁩ team for also organising a session on the role of racism in health inequalities, with 6 guiding principles useful for all researchers en health practitioners

Hot off the press: first record of the snail host for urinary bilharzia in Western Uganda! Read the full paper of our ATRAP PhD student Julius Tumusiime 👇

To all attendants of #TropMed23 , keep an eye out for the presentations of Noelia Valderrama B. rubenschols and Tim Maes to learn more about citizen science and🐌 monitoring, the🐌microbiome and future distribution of 🐌under different climate scenarios!

Noelia Valderrama KU Leuven The AfricaMuseum shares ATRAP's work on unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases🐌
Extensive amount of data
Acceptable accuracy
Significantly cheaper
Empowering communities
#Schistosomiasis #BeatNTDs

I had the honor to work with Guy Patrice Dkamela from EHS - Environmental Humanities South on a collection piece of the The AfricaMuseum
We combine ethnographic research with optimal microscopy to discuss questions of exploitation & extinction, affective relationships of care, & gender roles
Available👇

The #ATRAP (‘Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases’) project has won the international NTD Innovation Prize for its pioneering work on the tropical infectious disease schistosomiasis (bilharzia) in Uganda and DR Congo.
Congratulations to the entire team!

We are delighted with this important recognition of our ATRAP project, which would not have been possible without the SUPERB teamwork, and the endless dedication of the communities🙏🏼
Mbarara University
The AfricaMuseum Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department Joule Madinga Ntwan, MD PhD American Leprosy Missions
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Novartis Global Health