Darwin Centre Live

Hey folks, post more! Seems like stuff I post only benefit ecologists, resource managers and parasitologists. Bah. This makes it boring for the micro-stuff people.

Anyway, from the Natural History Museum's online archive:

The Control of Schistosomiasis in Africa - Russel Stothard

"Scientists from the Natural History Museum have been involved in schistosome-related studies for nearly four decades. A new initiative funded by the Gates Foundation hopes to benefit child health in tropical African regions by control of schistosomiasis, a serious and long-term illness caused by parasitic flatworms. Museum scientist Russell Stothard will report on recent activities in Uganda and issues concerning this important water-borne disease."

This is also the guy who's gonna give the POLS students the seminar/keynote lecture tomorrow. He did his PhD at Imperial, and was a Field Project Coordinator at the College for a few years.

At the main Darwin Centre Live archive page, there's a whole lot of other videos. It's got a section on parasites too, and in the miscellaneous section you might find videos about DNA and genes and etc.

Addendum: Mycologists (oh yeah, should get Xiao in here) will be delighted to find a few clips on fungi too.