Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Parasitology, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Eye & Vision Health, Flinders University
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Senior Research Associate, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
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Reader, UCL
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Professor of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Parasitology, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Científico titular CSIC, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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Adjunct Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
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Veterinary researcher, University of California, Davis
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Adjunct Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia
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Research director in parasitology, Inserm
