曼彻斯特不争夺其气候，如图所示our kidNoel谁谁唱歌：“你可以等一辈子在阳光下度过你的日子“。然而，云分开，风沉淀，春天终于到了时间英国寄生虫学会2019 Spring Meeting. Talks, poster sessions and workshops were all held in the Grade 2 listed Renold Building, a stones throw away from the bustle of central Manchester, offering an extremely Manchester-esque experience for all. The complete timetable and abstract book is available to download这里.

欢迎来自当地组织者的会议后Kathryn Else和Ilaria Russo曼彻斯特大学总裁兼副校长，DAME NANCY ROTHWELL.,是时候开始的时间了。

Patricia Wrightkick-started the conference with her opening plenary, a whistle stop tour through her career long links with the lemurs of Madagascar, who, following 40 million years of isolation from humans and other primates, host some rather unique parasites. However, with human populations encroaching further into Madagascar’s rainforest ecosystem,spillover of parasites and pathogenic enteric bacteria发生了野生狐猴人口。帕特里夏和其他人一起度过了她的一些时间来调查这一点（以及协调Ranomafana国家公园地区的建立！）。

跟踪震颤

The first day finished with delegates splitting into different sessions. Those attending theHuman Interventions溪流锯Lisette Van Lieshoutsharing developments in using the adult worm circulating antigen (CAA) for the early diagnosis of acute schistosomiasis in travellers in comparison with other diagnostics. She particularly highlighted the well-known fact that using this proxy can differentiate active from past infections.

Over in the主机 - 病原体交互溪流，TomášHacháček.humoured delegates with his talk explaining how his research came to the ‘doorstep’, reporting on anoutbreak of cercarial dermatitis(a skin condition caused by accidental penetration of human skin by avian schistosomes) outside of Charles University, Prague.

Elsa Leger.followed this by highlighting the one health theme of the conference with her talk on the role of zoonotic schistosomiasis in West Africa,schistosome hybridization和itsimplication for control of human schistosomiasis.

Parasite“传送”in assorted Ecosystems

The Ecology and Ecosystems stream at each BSP meeting brings together a rather mismatched array of parasitologists, allowing for a diverse set of talks in a single room; this year being no different! Highlights included hearingNatalia Fraija-Fernández(winner of BES best Ecology and Ecosystems presentation) talk about the incredibly unique opportunity she has had to explore the helminths of cetaceans, non-invasively, by collecting stool samples and utilising next-generation sequencing to identify and characterise the parasites of these marine giants. This technique has uncovered some surprises along the way, with multiple sequences being obtained from parasites unknown to science – one to look out for.

Anna Paziewska-Harrisalso shared her research into the population genetic structure ofCryptosporidium, and most interestingly, how it can be determined by the sanitation structure available to endemic populations (i.e. a ‘toilet ecosystem’).

Poster pitches

海报投资是今年会议计划的欢迎外，为海报演示者提供了几分钟的机会，吸引代表到他们的海报。从这些音高，给出了最佳海报音高的奖励卢卡斯·坎宁安，谁的海报缺席的证据Trypanosoma brucei gambiense在西北乌干达，证明了“没有”结果可以在正面和刺激的光线下沟通。

Other poster winners included; Masters student Meg Huggins for her poster on凭证崔种虫害影响控制三刺鱼的猎物ce,

božolugonjaposter investigating novel mechanisms such as microwave technology to remove robustCryptosporidium水处理期间的卵囊和汉娜史密斯海报研究巨噬细胞相关蛋白质标志YM1的作用Trichuris murisexpulsion and intestinal inflammation.

“Rusholme Ruffians.” (…almost)

娱乐的第一夜是慷慨支持的British Ecological Society Parasite and Pathogen Special Interest Group（一群人汇集了学术界，伴有寄生虫生态和演变）以及年轻的寄生师聚会举办了招待会。老修道院戏剧性在曼彻斯特科学园的中心。

食物和饮料很丰富，并帮助洗涤全部击中音乐Pumphandle Blues Band, a group formed on this occasion by musical parasitologists including this year’s Wright Medal WinnerRussell Stothard(more on this in the next blog !), BSP’s Vice-President科林·萨瑟兰和memberDavid Conway谁提供了一系列命中，并给出了代表们有机会在另一天在会议诉讼之前举行舞蹈和伸展腿。

在会议上第一天的所有这些和许多其他迷人的演示之后是更多的会谈，社会新闻在年度大会期间和对奖励介绍中的杰出成就的认可。留意我的第二个博客，5月7日星期二覆盖所有这一部^th.

附加信息：BSP 2019秋季研讨会'Helminth寄生学的基因组进展'将于23日在贝尔法斯特队举行^rdof September, followed by theIrish Society for Parasitology第二天在谜语大厅会议。

BSP Acknowledge:Organisers Kathryn Else and Ilaria Russo, other staff and students from at the University of Manchester, Qiagen, British Ecological Society, eLIFE, Parasites and Vectors, Elsevier, Nikon, Thermo/Fisher Scientific, Cambridge University Press, New Elgland BioLabs and The Royal Society for a successful BSP Spring Meeting.