Zikmund Bartonicek

Very happy to have contributed to this Parasite of the Month! How many of you have heard about the neurotropic cousin of Schistosoma, the Trichobilharzia regenti? 🪱🧠

It was great to be able to travel to Copenhagen, sample eDNA, have fruitful discussions and overall great time with colleagues from University of Copenhagen!

Molecular detection and identification of Trichobilharzia: development of a LAMP, qPCR, and multiplex PCR toolkit - Parasites & Vectors Background Cercarial dermatitis (CD), or swimmer’s itch, is a water-borne allergic skin reaction caused by the penetration of the larval stages of bird schistosomes (cercariae) into the skin. Members ...

New publication out today! 🥳 Honza and @zikmund.bsky.social developed a sensitive molecular toolkit for detecting bird schistosomes, the main culprits behind swimmer’s itch. 🏊🏻🐌

A step forward in molecular surveillance of bird schistosomes!
@sciencecharles.bsky.social

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Easter egg with #parasite eggs. 🥚🪱 What more could one wish for!

Toads (and spring) have arrived to the ponds at @sciencecharles.bsky.social

Exploring R Package Usage in Academia I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️

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New tools for environmental detection of swimmer's itch presented by Honzik from our lab! 🏞🧬 #eDNA #LAMP

Excited for the start of the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting organised by @bspparasitology.bsky.social, DGP & SSTMP!
Looking forward to the next couple of days in Würzburg! 🍷
If you are interested in eDNA and Trichobilharzia, come check out our posters in session one and session three! 🪱🧬🥳

To compensate for all the terrible news in the world, here are some 35mm pictures I took couple of dozens of metres below Prague few weeks ago. The new metro tunnels are so impressive (unlike my manual exposure and focusing skills).

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution?

We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing!

more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It turns out that Planorbarius corneus shells are really useful for when you need to make medals for a departmental competition!

Still a better trend to come back than flares 😄

they’re calling it a PhD

Aha, ja jsem prave zil v domeni, ze ST funguje, viz tu: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n... Samozrejme to neni silver bullet a je potreba i vzdelavani a dalsi intervence, ale nikde jsem nezaznamenal, ze by ST nefungovalo - ale samozrejme je to zcela mimo moji expertizu ☺️

To mi prijde jako dalsi duvod proc bojovat uz proti detske obezite a proc by veci jako sugar tax davaly smysl ne? :)

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I’m new here, so why don’t I show you some of my study animals! 🪱 The little white speck in the foreground is a #cercaria of #Schistosoma, a #parasite infecting hundreds of millions of people, mostly in Africa!
Behind is a #Biomphalaria freshwater snail - it’s intermediate host 🐌