It was a pleasure to present at this years @ISParasitology, giving an overview of my helminth - microbiota PhD work that I completed with @DrCinziaCanta at @Cambridge_Uni @bbsrc

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The last worm art created to mark the end of my PhD ^^^ ---The worm art saga comes full circle--- The first worm art created during my PhD vvv

It's been far too long since I've created some #wormart. Heavily, heavily inspired by the artwork by Kentaro Miura - the legendary creator of #Berserk. This was a fun one🪱🌒

And of course a huge thank you to Somenath Bakshi and Ruizhe Li at @Cambridge_Eng. And a thank you to the fantastic Andreas Hoffman. Finally, a huge thank you to my fab supervisor @DrCinziaCanta. @CamVetSchool @Cambridge_Uni @BBSRC @CamDTP_BBSRC

A massive thank you to all those at @DTUtweet, especially @esperdet, @TimothyPJenkins and @AndreasLaustsen. And to the great folk at @MoredunComms, @KevinMclean_MRI, @al_nisbet and Daniel Price. A huge, massive and gigantic thank you to Ashraf Zarkan at @GeneticsCam. ...

These findings were made possible by a diverse group of scientists, who I have had the privilege of working with and learning from🎓 Just a couple of the great people I met along the way⬇️

Our study is one of the first to identify, characterise, recombinantly express, and test the antimicrobial activity of helminth-derived molecules. We hope this serves to boost helminth-microbiota-host relationship study, and ultimately lead to new methods of helminth control.

Using time-lapse microfluidics microscopy (MOTHER machine) both proteins displayed lytic activity and lead to significantly diminished growth rates of B. subtilis 🔬

A saposin-domain containing protein and a metridin ShK toxin domain-containing protein, were recombinantly expressed and demonstrated significant antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis 🦠

In this publication, we show that GI nematode secretions (excretory-secretory products, inc. extracellular vesicles) are a rich and diverse source of antimicrobial peptides and proteins 🧑‍🔬🧪

Gaining a better understanding of the relationship between helminth and host microbiota may allow us to develop methods to prevent these unwanted changes, while also establishing new strategies to combat helminth infection.

Infections by GI helminths have been implicated in compositional changes of the host’s microbial content, possibly to create an environment that is more advantageous to them. These microbial changes can have unwanted, potentially harmful, consequences for the health of the host🐑

Have you ever woken up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and wondered how gastrointestinal nematodes influence the composition of their host’s gut microbiota? 🪱🦠 Worry no more!! I am excited to share our latest findings! 🧵⤵️ https://t.co/MyNBLY7c3k

Great talk by @DrCinziaCanta!! Amazing to see the helminth AMP work coming together from @RedBeardRooney 🪱 so great to finally meet in person too @BSPparasitology @Cambridge_Uni @AberDLSAGB #HelminthAMPs

It’s been a while since I’ve done some #wormart (I’m running out of ways to make worm drawings interesting lol). This one is heavily inspired by comics/sketches by Todd McFarlane. Hope you enjoy. (Unfortunately there seems to be some quality loss during upload to Twitter).

Have a cosmically fantastic weekend! #wormart

What!? A blood fluke with its own microbiome? 😱 check out our cool pictures in this new article by @FabioFormenti1 and team https://t.co/o8o9TAvBUO @CamVetSchool @Cambridge_Uni

Just some scribbles