Welcome to Episode 13 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Rachel Penczykowski from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is soon to start a faculty position at Washington University in St Louis. This week we are talking about disease! Rachel talks about her research on how ecological context can influence the prevalence and spread of disease, and what the consequences may be for other organisms in the ecosystem. Originally from the US, Rachel did her first postdoc in Finland. We talk about her experiences with two very different social care systems and how this has influenced both her professional and personal life. As always you can contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (twitter.com/slightlyevolpod) or join on our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/664596143711550/). Remember you can also subscribe on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slightly-evolved-podcast/id1197890502?mt=2), and we would really appreciate it if you could leave a rating/comment there!You can find Rachel on Twitter (twitter.com/RachelPenczy) and read more about her research here (http://www.rachelpenczykowski.com/). You can also find the fieldwork blog we talked about here (http://parasitesinspace.com/).