Originally recorded on July 27th, 2019, produced and hosted by Taiwo Afolabi.

We join Tara Brosschot, who traveled all the way from the Netherlands to study biology here at UVIC. In this episode, she discusses her research on parasitic worms (or helminths) and how they affect your susceptibility to infection as well as how our body works. What inspired her interest in studying something so scary but so fascinating? Listen to find out!