Congratulations to our 2025 ASP Conference Prize Winners! Joshua Levendis, University of Melbourne, best 5min presentation by a student at the 2025 ASP Annual Conference for his presentation “Detecting and characterising base modifications in Plasmodium falciparum with Nanopore direct RNA sequencing” Patsy A. Zendejas-Heredia, University of Melbourne for best 15min presentation by a student at…
Send your nominations in to help celebrate the excellence of our Members through ASP Awards and Prizes. Nominations for the following three Awards will close next Tuesday 30th September 2025. BMM The Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence allows the Australian Society for Parasitology to recognise outstanding contributions of its members to the Science of Parasitology. Applications close…
Interested in joining the Australian Society for Parasitology? Come for an evening of parasite-themed trivia and get to know your local parasitologists! When? November 13, 2025 What time? 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm (Trivia from 6:30 pm) Where? The Shakespeare Hotel, 200 Devonshire St, Surry Hills, NSW Enjoy a complimentary drink and be in the…
Join our online ASP Seminar Series Friday 19 September 2025 @1pm AEST, featuring Anjana Rai, Menzies School of Health Research presenting “Genetic evidence of cross-border P. vivax spread in pre-elimination regions of South Asia” and Shamit Singla, University of Adelaide presenting “Form follows function. How the spatial arrangement of protein molecules can help us understand…
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,…
Next week in Melbourne 270 scientists will meet at the 2025 Australian Society for Parasitology (ASP) Annual Conference to discuss the latest research and state-of-the-art technologies in parasitology. We would like to acknowledge the generous support of our 2025 ASP Conference sponsors, thanks to Elsevier and the International Journal for Parasitology (IJP), IJP DDR and…