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Biology of Parasitism Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory
BoP 2025 has officially ended! Students got their official certificates this morning and had the opportunity to say a few words. We are grateful for all the work that was put in to make this course possible and we are proud to be part of the BoP alumni network 🥳
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BoP 2025 has officially ended! Students got their official certificates this morning and had the opportunity to say a few words. We are grateful for all the work that was put in to make this course possible and we are proud to be part of the BoP alumni network 🥳
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Today Camila Coelho joined us as the final speaker for BoP 2025! She talked to us about vaccines, parasites, and the fantastic work her lab is doing!
Thank you to all the guest speakers who joined us to teach and get to know this year’s class/instructors/TAs/CAs!
#MBLBoP2025
Thank you to all the guest speakers who joined us to teach and get to know this year’s class/instructors/TAs/CAs!
#MBLBoP2025
July 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Today Camila Coelho joined us as the final speaker for BoP 2025! She talked to us about vaccines, parasites, and the fantastic work her lab is doing!
Thank you to all the guest speakers who joined us to teach and get to know this year’s class/instructors/TAs/CAs!
#MBLBoP2025
Thank you to all the guest speakers who joined us to teach and get to know this year’s class/instructors/TAs/CAs!
#MBLBoP2025
July 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Our penultimate guest lecturer Kirk Jensen is here this morning telling us about Toxo, its different strains and virulence, and the impact of mouse and parasite genetics! 🐭
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#MBLBoP2025
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our penultimate guest lecturer Kirk Jensen is here this morning telling us about Toxo, its different strains and virulence, and the impact of mouse and parasite genetics! 🐭
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Fernanda Novais was our morning speaker and we learned about T cells, cutaneous leishmaniasis, and Hypoxia!
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#MBLBoP2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fernanda Novais was our morning speaker and we learned about T cells, cutaneous leishmaniasis, and Hypoxia!
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
We are fortune this year to have had three course directors! Our current and final fearless leader this year is Melissa Lodoen who studies Toxo gondii infection 🧠
This is Vern and Melissa’s final year as course directors for BoP!
#MBLBoP2025
This is Vern and Melissa’s final year as course directors for BoP!
#MBLBoP2025
July 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We are fortune this year to have had three course directors! Our current and final fearless leader this year is Melissa Lodoen who studies Toxo gondii infection 🧠
This is Vern and Melissa’s final year as course directors for BoP!
#MBLBoP2025
This is Vern and Melissa’s final year as course directors for BoP!
#MBLBoP2025
This morning we had Irah King come talk to us about Type II immunity/Helminths, and now has joined us at the bench this evening to help with some Ascaris work! 🪱
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This morning we had Irah King come talk to us about Type II immunity/Helminths, and now has joined us at the bench this evening to help with some Ascaris work! 🪱
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Last week we started our final module, Immunology! After a great introduction to the topic by Phillip Scott, students broke into Team Ascaris, led by Pedro Gazzinelli, and Team Leishmania, led by Jude Uzonna! Pictures of full days and many great lecturers incoming!
#MBLBoP202
#MBLBoP202
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Last week we started our final module, Immunology! After a great introduction to the topic by Phillip Scott, students broke into Team Ascaris, led by Pedro Gazzinelli, and Team Leishmania, led by Jude Uzonna! Pictures of full days and many great lecturers incoming!
#MBLBoP202
#MBLBoP202
The big reveal of our BoP 2025 t-shirts! What do folks recognize in the design?
Created by the talented BoP student Sophia Hernandez!
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Created by the talented BoP student Sophia Hernandez!
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July 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The big reveal of our BoP 2025 t-shirts! What do folks recognize in the design?
Created by the talented BoP student Sophia Hernandez!
#MBLBoP2025
Created by the talented BoP student Sophia Hernandez!
#MBLBoP2025
Thank you to Dr. Alan Sher for this evenings Englund Lecture! A personal and BoP History, the renaissance of parasitology (and immunoparasitology), and some cake to celebrate the 45th anniversary of BoP!
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#MBLBoP2025
July 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank you to Dr. Alan Sher for this evenings Englund Lecture! A personal and BoP History, the renaissance of parasitology (and immunoparasitology), and some cake to celebrate the 45th anniversary of BoP!
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Dr. Alan Sher will give the Paul Englund Endowed Lecture at BoP at 5pm eastern time. Please email mlodoen[at]uci[dot]edu if you would like a zoom link for the talk!
July 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Dr. Alan Sher will give the Paul Englund Endowed Lecture at BoP at 5pm eastern time. Please email mlodoen[at]uci[dot]edu if you would like a zoom link for the talk!
Nsa Dada was our morning lecturer and told us about her work with the mosquito microbiome! 🦟
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nsa Dada was our morning lecturer and told us about her work with the mosquito microbiome! 🦟
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
David Sasseri joined us virtually for an introduction to symbiosis and then a focus down on Wolbachia 🪳🕷️🩸🦠
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#MBLBoP2025
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
David Sasseri joined us virtually for an introduction to symbiosis and then a focus down on Wolbachia 🪳🕷️🩸🦠
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#MBLBoP2025
July 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This morning the BoP students get a hundred year overview of “sleeping sickness” from Isabel Roditi
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July 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This morning the BoP students get a hundred year overview of “sleeping sickness” from Isabel Roditi
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Practicing microinjections on ticks! Soon we’ll be injecting double stranded RNA for a gene knockdown experiment 🔬
PC: Alessandro R.
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PC: Alessandro R.
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July 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Practicing microinjections on ticks! Soon we’ll be injecting double stranded RNA for a gene knockdown experiment 🔬
PC: Alessandro R.
#MBLBoP2025
PC: Alessandro R.
#MBLBoP2025
Katie Gondim joins us this morning to teach us about the “kissing bug” Rhodnius prolixus, a vector insect
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Katie Gondim joins us this morning to teach us about the “kissing bug” Rhodnius prolixus, a vector insect
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
July 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Etymology word of the day with our speaker and co-director Vern!
Parasite: from the Greek ‘Parasitos’ meaning: “one who eats at the table of another”
#MBLBoP2025
Parasite: from the Greek ‘Parasitos’ meaning: “one who eats at the table of another”
#MBLBoP2025
July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Etymology word of the day with our speaker and co-director Vern!
Parasite: from the Greek ‘Parasitos’ meaning: “one who eats at the table of another”
#MBLBoP2025
Parasite: from the Greek ‘Parasitos’ meaning: “one who eats at the table of another”
#MBLBoP2025
After every new speaker's lecture, the BoP class gets the opportunity to ask the speaker questions (without faculty, TA, CA, etc) and they range from career and personal advice, how the course has changed their lives, and the hardships of research and academia!
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
June 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
After every new speaker's lecture, the BoP class gets the opportunity to ask the speaker questions (without faculty, TA, CA, etc) and they range from career and personal advice, how the course has changed their lives, and the hardships of research and academia!
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Learning about the history and use of Expansion Microscopy with Sabrina Absalon for our morning lecture
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#MBLBoP2025
June 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Learning about the history and use of Expansion Microscopy with Sabrina Absalon for our morning lecture
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
Megan and Michael with the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project took their module out to collect wild mosquitos (and horseflies)!
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#MBLBoP2025
June 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Megan and Michael with the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project took their module out to collect wild mosquitos (and horseflies)!
#MBLBoP2025
#MBLBoP2025
June 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM