This Week in Parasitism

Science Podcasts

TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.

Episodes

TWiP 285: Why Is Cyclospora So Hard to Contain? Parasitologists Explain the 2026 US Outbreak

TWiP 284: It's not the pork

TWiP 283: Warming up to cryptosporidiosis

TWiP 282: Does he live in New York?

TWiP 281: Ants under the influence

TWiP 280: The wriggling diagnosis

TWiP 279: Tolling for hookworms

TWiP 278: Trichinella from eating bear eyeballs

TWiP 277: Rif-ing on river blindness

TWiP 276: Travel history is the key

TWiP 275: Novel malaria vector control

TWiP 274: Four tablets for bloating

TWiP 273: Intestinal parasites in dogs

TWiP 272: Don't look and you won't find

TWiP 271: The silent lesion

TWiP 270: They bake my noodle

TWiP 269: Peripatetic Martin Grobusch

TWiP 268: A loyal parasite

TWiP 267: It dropped from her scalp

TWiP 266: Wraps and ivermectin for malaria