Olson Lab

Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD United Kingdom

Recent Publications

Tsai et al. 2013. The genomes of four species of tapeworm reveal adaptations to parasitism. Nature PUBLICATIONS

Pouchkina-Stantcheva et al. 2013. RNA-mediated gene suppression and in vitro culture in Hymenolepis microstoma. International Journal for Parasitology PUBLICATIONS

Olson et al. 2012. Cestode genomics - progress and prospects for understanding basic and applied aspects of flatworm biology. Parasite Immunology PUBLICATIONS

NEWS

First tapeworm genomes published! READ

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Now Accepting Submissions: "Planarians to Parasitism: Evolution, Development and Stem Cells in Flatworms" Special EvoDevo + Parasites & Vectors Thematic Volume READ

Forthcoming book in 2012: Next Generation Systematics: Studying Evolution & Diversity in an Era of Ubiquitous Genomics READ

Hymenolepis VERSION 2 at the Sanger Institute! READ

Slovakia
Nov/Dec 2009

visit to Gabriella Hrčkova and the Institute of Parasitology, Košice
&
mini-Workshop on Cestode Systematics
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
October 30 - December 4, 2009
organized by the Department of Taxonomy and Molecular Biology, Parasitological Institute SAS, Košice

Participants:

Institute of Parasitology, Ceske Budejovice, CZECH REPUBLIC:
Tomáš Scholz, Roman Kuchta, Jan Brabec, Celine Levron, Anirban Ash, Björn Schäffner & Lenka Šípková

Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Science, Kosice, SLOVAKIA:
Marta Špakulová, Vladamíra Hanzelová, Mikuláš Oros, Martina Orosová, Eva Bazsalovicsová, Marianna Reblánová & Timea Barciová

Natural History Museum, Geneva, SWITZERLAND:
Alain de Chambrier

Natural History Musuem, London, UNITED KINGDOM:
Peter D Olson