When foes become friends
Parasites are, by their nature, harmful to their hosts and considered unwanted guests. This must not always be the case though, as parasites have been observed… Read more »
Bradley van Paridon
Bradley is a PhD candidate in Biology at the University of Lethbridge. He studies wildlife and domestic parasites, molecular biology and host manipulation by parasites. He has an interest in science communication and created and writes a blog about his work and host manipulation at zombieants.ca
Latest posts by Bradley van Paridon (see all)
- When foes become friends - 13th October 2017
- Out of Africa – The new origin story for Malaria - 18th August 2017
- Vaccine hunters dig deep into schistosome biology - 12th May 2017
Out of Africa – The new origin story for Malaria
New sampling and sequencing of malaria parasite from apes and monkeys is re-writing the phylogeny and origin story of one of humankinds most deadly infections.
Vaccine hunters dig deep into schistosome biology
The search for vaccine targets against one of the world’s worst parasites has gone internal. Rather than look for vaccine targets on the surface, new… Read more »
Battle for the Mind
Copepods have a tough enough time avoiding being eaten on their own without the presence of mind controlling parasites to hijack their responses to predators.… Read more »
Fighting Schistosomes with Prawns
Serious disease causing parasites are often transmitted to humans by small aquatic snails. These snails are dependent on suitable habitat to breed and spread.… Read more »
Environmental Change Could be Manipulating the Manipulators
Parasitic manipulators have very demonstrable impacts on the structures of ecosystems but we often don’t consider how a changing environment will manipulate… Read more »