Dissemination and education
Objectives
- To organise and encourage dissemination of knowledge and results and educational activities of the Action
- To produce, in collaboration with the other WGs, an online open access book encompassing broad aspects of Blastocystis research (epidemiological surveys, subtyping, omics and culturing) with detailed established methods that can be consistently used by various groups interested in the field
Team Leaders
Pauline Scanlan
Position:Co-Lead WG5
Affiliation: School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
Research interests: Ecology and Evolution of the human gut microbiome
Evren Tileklioglu
Position: WG4 ECR Lead
Affiliation: Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Aydin, Türkiye
Research Interest: Medical parasitology, Blastocystis, Antiparasitic activity, Diagnosis, epidemiology, prevention, and control of parasitic diseases
Varol Tunali
Position: WG3 ECR Lead
Affiliation: Manisa Celal Bayar University School of Medicine, Turkey
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Research Interest: Gut microbiome interactions, Blastocystis pathogenesis, Emerging-remerging parasitic infections.
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Ozgur Kurt
Position:Co-Lead WG5
Affiliation: ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, ISTANBUL – TURKIYE
Research interests:Blastocystis, Dientamoeba
fragilis, microbiota, leishmaniasis, diagnosis and treatment of parasitic
infections