Meet WIMANET members - Dr. Edward Netherlands YouTube video by WIMANET.science

He believes that putting faces to names, visiting labs, and receiving advice can help accelerate scientific progress 📈🔬🤝 Check his interview here 👉 youtu.be/884GybUJVn8

He values collaboration toward shared scientific goals and highlights the importance of engaging with summer school students 🎓and fellow researchers 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 through exchanges, questions, and learning from experienced scientists.

This interview features Dr. #EdwardNetherlands , Senior Lecturer at the University of the Free State (South Africa), whose research combines herpetology 🦎, parasitology 🦠, and ecology, with a focus on blood parasites in reptiles and amphibians 🐸 and their interactions↔️

From the south of the world, we present another episode of the interviews 🎙📷 recorded during the second #WIMANET workshop held in Lithuania, about what our members do! 📰🆕 #meetWIMANETmembers

Meet WIMANET members - Dr. Marcela Suárez-Rubio YouTube video by WIMANET.science

She emphasises #WiMaNet value for collaboration across disciplines and career stages 🤝 offering opportunities to gain experience, share research, and build networks 📈💯 Check it here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQl...

Recently, she has incorporated parasites🦠into her research, studying the effects of global change on the transmission of haemosporidian parasites 🦟 She joined #WG4 and attended a summer school with intensive training in haematology and parasite identification 🔬👩‍🎓

We are pleased to present to you Dr. #MarcelaSuárezRubio, Senior Researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, with years of experience in landscape ecology 🏞️🌆🛣️ focusing on spatio-temporal patterns and the processes shaping ecosystems 🗺️⏳

Here is another episode of the interviews 🎙📷 recorded during the second #WIMANET workshop held in Lithuania, about what our members do! 📰🆕 #meetWIMANETmembers

#WiMaNet members, if you have planned to apply for funding for the workshop, then you have to submit your abstract in order to send it with the application by the 16th of April! 📆

📆❗REMINDER!

You have until the 16th of April to apply for reimbursement for any of the three events of #WiMaNet:
1️⃣The pre-conference summer school: bsky.app/profile/wima...
2️⃣ The conference:
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3️⃣ The summer school:
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Meet WIMANET members - Misa Shimizu YouTube video by WIMANET.science

She claims that #WiMaNet has helped her exchange ideas♻️, connect with new colleagues 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬, and gain additional motivation for her research as a PhD student 💪🎓 Check it here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRKa...

As #WiMaNet member, Misa received a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) grant that allowed her to carry out a research stay in the UK in @jennycdunn.bsky.social's lab 🤝🌐

Meet #MisaShimizu from Japan, a 2º year PhD student at the Nature Research Centre in Lithuania studying avian haemosporidian parasites from The Gambia 🌍. She uses both microscopy 🔬& molecular 🧬 techniques to study parasite diversity and host–parasite relationships, focusing on Haemoproteus species 🦠

New interview 🎙🎥 recorded during the second #WIMANET workshop held in Lithuania, about what our members do!📰🆕 With a new PhD student! #meetWIMANETmembers

Meet WIMANET members - Dr. Carolina Chagas (WG3 Co-lead) YouTube video by WIMANET.science

She highlights the importance of attending conferences, actively participating in scientific networks and building collaborations. These advance research and opens new opportunities for researchers at all stages of their careers. Check it here 👉 youtu.be/J0O33kKMATc?...

She plays a very important role in #WIMANET 🤝 Carolina contributed to the organisation of the last WIMANET Summer School in Vilnius and participated in an STSM in Seville (Spain), which helped develop a scientific paper and start planning the next Summer School in Spain 🗓️📝

We are happy to present to you Dr. #CarolinaChagas, Senior Researcher at the Nature Research Centre in Vilnius and the co-leader of WG3 🦟 Her research focuses on vector–parasite relationships🦟↔️🦠, spatio-temporal variation🌐♻️, and the diversity of haemosporidian parasites 📈

Today we have the sixth interview 🎙🎥 recorded during the second #WIMANET workshop held in Lithuania about what our members do 📰🆕 #meetWIMANETmembers

If as #WIMANET member, you are preparing the funding application for the conference, this information may be relevant to you! ⚠️ And remember that you should be registered for the conference! 📝

PLEASE! ⚠️ If you are a #WIMANET member, in order to apply for funding, remember you should be registered for the conference!

You can find 🆕 information 📣 regarding the registration and abstract submission for the @wildlifecongress26.bsky.social! 📝📩

Meet WIMANET members - Dr. Erika Braga YouTube video by WIMANET.science

In this interview, Erika highlights the importance of collaboration in science and strongly advocates for the active participation of non-European researchers and young scientists in international networks. Find it by yourself 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIcE...

They expanded their research: 1) including malaria parasites in reptiles, conducting pioneering studies on their prevalence and diversity in these hosts 🐊 and 2) investigating plasma biomarkers in birds and their association with coinfections, such as filarial parasites 🪱🪶

Meet Dr. #ErikaBraga, Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and leader of an interdisciplinary malaria research group. For more than 20 years, they have been studying haemosporidian parasites in a wide range of wild species across different ecosystems 🌳🏜️🏝️🏔️

Today we continue with the interviews 🎙🎥 recorded during the second #WIMANET workshop held in Lithuania, about what our members do!📰🆕 With a special member from across the ocean! #meetWIMANETmembers

Funding for vector training school Open call to join the WIMANET training school in Spain

The call for applications for the Wildlife Malaria Network Summer Training School will be open from 16th March 2026 and close on 16th April 2026 ⚠️📆 You can check the conditions here 👉 wimanet-science.github.io/web/news/202...

3️⃣ 3rd WIMANET summer school, 7th - 11th September, Doñana, Spain. It will consist of five days of lectures and practical activities designed to introduce students to a broad range of research activities and skills related to vector capture and identification, and bioinformatics analysis 🦟🧬👩‍💻

⚠️ Applicants must have registered for the conference via the conference website before 16th April ‼️📆 Do it at the conference web 👉 wildlifeparasiteco.wixsite.com/vii-internat...

Funding for Workshop in Spain Open call to join the 3rd WIMANET workshop

⚠️ This will be a #hybrid event. The call for funding applications will open on 16th March 2026 and close on 16th April 2026 📆 Read more here 👉 wimanet-science.github.io/web/news/202...

2️⃣ VII International Conference of Malaria and other blood Parasites of Wildlife & VI International Symposium of Wildlife Diseases Research Network, 2nd - 5th September, Badajoz. 🎟️ You can find more information about the conference here: @wildlifecongress26.bsky.social