SoS 99 - Getting Hooked on Parasite Infection Research and Podcasting with Dr. Theresa Gildner

This is the first of a series of episodes highlighting the work and interests of the Sausage of Science team. First up is our associate producer, Dr. Theresa Gildner. Theresa is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College and will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St, Louis in January. She chats with Cara and Chris about her work with the Shuar Health and Life History Project and about her recent paper on the potential roles of parasite infections in mitigating the effects of COVID. Read Dr. Gildner's paper on "Market Integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236924 and her fresh-off-the-press paper "Old Friends Meet a new Foe - A potential for immune-printing parasites in mitigating COVID-19 morbidity and mortality" here: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa037/5930904?guestAccessKey=e26874a1-ad3b-42fe-a622-4da350a137c2 You can contact Dr. Gildner at [email protected] & find out more about her work at https://tgildner.wixsite.com/theresa-gildner The Shuar Health and Life History Project https://www.shuarproject.org Contact the the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website: www.humbio.org Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/ Twitter:@CaraOcobock Email: [email protected] Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu Email: [email protected] Twitter:@Chris_Ly Theresa Gildner, Website:bonesandbehavior.org/theresa_gildner, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @TEGildner Delaney Glass, Website:dglass.netlify.app/, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra