Mark started studying parasitology as a student at Imperial College before doing a PhD at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, studying Strongyloides infection in people and other animals in the island of New Guinea. Since then he has continued to work on the biology and genetics of Strongyloides at the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol and Liverpool.

Peter studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and developed his interest in epigenetics during his PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and then as a post-doctoral researcher in Cambridge where he also became fascinated by nematode epigenetics and evolution. Peter established his own research group at Imperial College in 2014, before moving to the University of Oxford in 2021

Tom studied zoology at the University of Bangor and then worked in a number of roles supporting animal research models, particularly used in the study of cancer.

Jordan studied Tropical Disease Biology at the University of Liverpool and developed her interest in parasitic nematodes during her MSc study at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Joseph developed his interest in biology as a student in Uganda and then moved to Sweden to do a Master’s in bioinformatics, before doing a PhD on nematode evolution at the University of Cologne in Germany.

Chloe completed her PhD in Cardiovascular Science at the University of Manchester, where she developed an interest in developmental biology. Here she generated fluorescent reporters using CRISPR–Cas9 technology and is excited to bring these skills into the world of nematodes to better understand how to make a parasite.