Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 15 August 2025 @1pm AEST, featuring Jessica Home presenting “Unravelling clindamycin resistance in Plasmodium.” and Jem Murdoch, University of New South Wales presenting “Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Looking beyond the immunodominance of the malaria parasite surface protein CSP” with co-chairs Jill Chmielewski, Walter and Eliza Hall…
Are you ready to save humankind from a rapidly spreading parasite pandemic? Step inside the ‘A Race for the Antidote’ Escape Room; visit a Parasite Zoo packed with live and preserved specimens; identify and avoid parasitic infections through virtual reality; meet real-world parasitologists; and explore the fictional world of Manga characters with parasitic mutations. The…
Congratulations to 2025 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Haylee Weaver! Haylee Weaver is a parasite taxonomist, with research interests in the taxonomy of parasites, and parasite-host ecology. Haylee has woven parasitology into her entire working career which has spanned her work at The Australian National University, the University of the Sunshine Coast and…
Congratulations to 2025 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Nathan Bott! Associate Professor Nathan Bott is internationally renowned for his research on fish parasitology. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from the University of Queensland and is currently Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Biology, School of Science, STEM College, RMIT University. Associate…
Congratulations to Dr Rina Wong (Fu), Bridget Ogilvie Medal 2025 winner. Rina is a research scientist, university lecturer, award-winning science communicator, as well as performing artist, author, and singer-songwriter who brings this diversity of practise into her Engaging Children & the Community In Science (ECIS) initiative that embeds Parasitology Education. Rina’s initiative offers an authentic,…